Meet the Artist
Lesley
Chan
Drawing and Painting
“My thesis work explores the ontology of nature beyond the human influence, disassociating from the innate human behavior of attaching sentiments towards inanimate objects. By deconstructing the natural shapes and textures of plant life into simplified forms, I re-construct their semiotics in order to question and re-articulate their relationships with the observer.”
Lesley Chan is a Toronto-based artist and designer with a BFA from OCAD University, specializing in Drawing and Painting, and Integrated Media. Her art practice often focuses on representational nature and portraiture, and while she mainly creates paintings, she involves herself with other creative forms such as design or animation. Exploration is the common connection in her work as she tries to use new images, ideas, or materials with every new project and enjoys working in series to push ideas further.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Integrated Media
Minor Completed, 2022
Drawing Painting Digital Art Graphic Design Motion Graphics 2D Animation Video Editing
2020, Awenda Inspired 10th Anniversary Show
OCAD University, Toronto ON
2019, InMotion Film Screening
Handlebar, Toronto ON
2019, Reuse/Refuse Exhibition
OCAD University, Toronto ON
2017, Drawing at First Sight Exhibition
OCAD University, Toronto ON
2019, Adobe XD Creative Jam LIVE, Finalist
Adobe Creative Jams
2019, Pigeon Design Competition, 2nd Place Winner
Pigeon Brands
Celebrate the work of OCAD U’s class of 2021/2022!