I was born in L.A. in 1972, the child of immigrants come to the west to mine the opportunities of The Golden State. At the age of three, we moved to a small city surrounded by the eponymous orange groves of Orange County and gained the company of my younger brother.
I was an artistic juggernaut as a child, drawing ceaselessly and always receiving art materials from relatives. In elementary school, I had the good fortune of working with an art educator who encouraged everyone to "fill the negative space" and "don't worry about mistakes, just keep drawing!"
This teacher was a wonderful influence, and I still hear her voice as I make art that's bigger than whatever canvas is at hand. You'll rarely find any image I create contained by the surface boundaries. What we can imagine is limitless, and it's off the canvas that the real connection is made between the viewer and artist.
On my canvases, however, you'll find a fusion of inner and outer realities, the evidence of prayer and communion with the greater whole of which we are all a part.
Presently, I reside on the West Coast of the North American continent, at the edge of the seas and on the verge of a garden.
To see more of my artwork and for inquiries, please visit my web site: ivanchan.com
Original artwork and prints available for purchase at my eBay store: Ivan Chan Studio
Who I'd like to meet: Art collectors, art dealers, gallery owners, fine art representatives, restauranteurs, artists of all arts, interior designers and decorators.
"Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One with Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance." - Eckhart Tolle much love Ivan...
hey ivan -- just thought i'd share my latest creation. my voice isn't miked and the computer was too close to the keyboard amp, so the words are hard to hear, but they are available under the commentary on the actual youtube page.
you know, i was just THINKING the ozone felt a little thin today, and then i wondered, could ivan be varnishing his art?
now all i need to do is come up with a quadratic function that expresses that the amount of art ivan varnishes is inversely proportional the amount of ozone in the atmosphere and (consequently) exponentially related to the number of times my cold sore will break out during the course of a year.
