The Live Auction Collection:
Curated by Philip Leonard Ocampo

The works included in this selection for ArtAttack! each explore an obfuscation of atmosphere. The flora, the sky, the figures locked in embrace: The foreground and background are blurred into a haze from which the artists reconstitute a moment or a memory through the mark of a pencil, a stroke from a brush, or cut of acrylic.

— Philip Leonard Ocampo

Philip Leonard Ocampo (b.1995) is an artist and arts facilitator based in Tkaronto, Canada. Ocampo’s multidisciplinary practice involves painting, sculpture, writing and curatorial projects. Exploring worldbuilding, radical hope and speculative futures, Ocampo’s work embodies a curious cross between magic wonder and the nostalgic imaginary. Following the tangents, histories and canons of popular culture, Ocampo is interested in how unearthing cultural touchstones of past / current times may therefore serve as catalysts for broader conversations about lived experiences; personal, collective, diasporic, etc. He holds a BFA in Integrated Media (DPXA) from OCAD University (2018) and is currently a Programming Coordinator at Xpace Cultural Centre and one of the four founding co-directors of Hearth, an artist-run collective based in the city.