Empathy Painting

Ian Lazarus was born in Toronto Canada in 1951.

He has been working and exhibiting as a sculptor since 1972. He began his career as a stone carver, and spent eleven years working and learning sculptural techniques in Mexico, California, Greece, Italy, and Canada. He has participated in symposiums in Malaysia and Ireland and is in private and public collections internationally.

Today he works with ease in a great variety of techniques and materials, including unconventional ones. He has created several installations that have involved shaping earth. His large scale, permanent, outdoor works -- sometimes created in collaboration with other artists -- exist in harmony with nature and incorporate the site and placement as an integral part of the whole.

Lazarus combines high-level skills required to plan, resource and manage large-scale works with an extraordinary ability to engage community and corporate support for a given project. His practical understanding of what is required to meet corporate and community interests in the realization of an artistic undertaking has enabled him to engage substantial support for .

IAN LAZARUS
ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I am pursuing a multi-faceted idea inspired by the layering of histories, and by erosions through time. The resulting works do not simulate history, but reflect trace elements or imprints of historical evidence left by time's passage.

The transience of time seen through rhythmic movement and revealed through the slicing and phrasing of space are recurring concepts throughout my body of work.