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Leslie Sorochan is an artist living and working in Southwestern Ontario. Leslie obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph and a Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University’s Artist in the Community Program. She has also completed a residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Leslie continues to pursue a career in art education and as an exhibited artist.
"My journey as artist, as is likely for most, has led me steadily from the universal to the intensely personal. The growing reality of time passing has developed into a psychological interpretation of my role as parent in the "water series". These images depict the concurrent experiences of buoyancy and drowning, freedom and subservience, privilege and duty. This internal dialogue continues into my most recent series of drawings. All of my works are representational and primarily figurative. I prefer to work on large scale with charcoal and loose metallic pigment on paper."
"Sorochan's nine large black and white graphics are by far the most accomplished work in the show...Most impressive is a series of stylistically and atmospherically related pieces which, in gritty domestic realism, is the equivalent of film noir." "What distinguishes Sorochan...is the relationship established between form and content."
Robert Reid
Waterloo Record
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"Undercurrent of foreboding in Woodstock artist's work ...her work focuses on women's experiences, the way women perceive. It's a social commentary on relationships between people."
Liz Dadson
Sentinel - Review
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Recent Drawings by Leslie Sorochan features dramatic large scale drawings in charcoal, chalk and metallic pigment. These renderings include two spectacular figurative pieces.
Heather MacIntosh
Ingersoll Times
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