BIOGRAPHY

Ethan Platt is a Canadian artist working primarily in oil paint to depict digitally distorted figures.  His work has been featured in galleries across Canada and the United States including; Gallery 1888, Abbozzo Gallery, High Line Nine Galleries, Bau-Xi Gallery (Toronto), Art Mur, Maison Depoivre Gallery, and Blitz Gallery. He is currently represented in Canada by Gallery 1888.

Ethan Platt holds an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from OCAD University in Toronto, where he received several distinctions, including the Richard Lemieux Scholarship, Hugh Mackenzie Memorial Scholarship, and the Donna MacLean Award. He currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

STATEMENT

My practice is rooted in balancing abstraction and synthetic-realism through paint. I aim to collapse the boundaries between the perceived, the fabricated and the real to consider how technology re-defines, mediates, and ultimately transforms our experience of the world, identity, and what is considered ‘reality’.

I employ the reflective surface as a mechanism, using it to create dialogues between the organic and the synthetic through ‘Trompe L’oiel’. These compositions aim to prompt questions about the self, illusion, and hyperreality.