Lex Buchanan paints scenes of fleeting moments captured in passage. Architectural spaces are presented as nostalgic experiences of the everyday, transformed into visual puzzles that challenge and disorient the viewer. Through historical tropes, contemporary culture, architectural forms, painterly gestures, and digital aesthetics Buchanan complicates notions of landscape and the urban condition. The paintings are first collaged from incongruous sources using photo-editing software, and then are executed in paint. These canvases challenge viewers in the act of deciphering new scenarios in which physical reality manifests with the ephemera of our own experience.

Buchanan is an artist, designer, curator and alumnus of the Ontario College of Art and Design where he graduated with honors and received the Bluma Appel award and A.V. Isacc’s scholarship.  After a year of post-graduate studies in Florence, Italy Lex obtained an Advanced Certificate of Visual Studies from OCAD. His work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions both locally and internationally.