About

Short Bio

Victoria Chaban studied Fine Arts at Whitman College and spent time blowing glass in the Pacific Northwest. She has a background in fine arts, film making, production, textile design and interior design. In 2017, her focus returned to painting. After spending two years painting birds, the culmination with an exhibit at Modern Appealing Clothing in San Francisco, she is now painting birds and patterns together, returning to her roots in textile. She is a 2023 fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her art is in numerous international private collections.

Statement

I am studying a visual language and living in a new space of awareness.I often paint the birds in highly patterned backgrounds that represent the camouflaged backdrops of the birds habitats. The birds symbolize rebirth and death, flight and departure, home and nesting. Birds are sentinels of environmental destruction and climate change. They inspired our recognition of beauty in the world.

The bird pattern series is inspired by our current environmental crisis, the disappearance and essentialness of birds and taking focused time to look at the world around us.