Holiday 2023 | New Works by Gallery Artists

HOLIDAY | New Works by Gallery Artists
December 9-23, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday December 9, 2-4pm


Bau-Xi Vancouver is pleased to present our annual holiday group exhibition, featuring beautiful new works in the spirit of the season.
The exhibition includes works by Vicky Christou, Eric Louie, Sylvia Tait, Kyle Scheurmann, Cori Creed, Anne Griffiths, Casey McGlynn and more.


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Vicki Smith | Ripple Effect



Vicki Smith | Ripple Effect

November 18-30, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday November 18, 2-4pm

 

Bau-Xi Vancouver presents Ripple Effect, the highly anticipated solo exhibition from Toronto based artist Vicki Smith. Vicki Smith is a painter whose goal is peace. These evocative new images, replete with the calm energy of Smith's own meditation practice, feature the artist's incredible skill with the brush in capturing the look and movement of water. They draw in the viewer, prompting memories of times when swimming and floating enabled moments of solace amidst the cacophony of life.

Artist Statement:

Appearing from The Walrus magazine and Connor Garrel, upon express request of the artist as her favoured artist and show statement:

"All of the women in Vicki Smith's paintings are suspended, floating in water and time. They court peace in pools and lakes. postponing gravity, going nowhere fast. Sometimes you can glimpse some rocks or stretch of shore at the edge of a frame, but mostly they are alone, buoyant and unbothered. These scenes are rendered almost romantically, with impasto snarls of blue and green and ochre, and when Smith talks about them, she uses words like "serene", and "meditation", and "memory". She doesn't even think of her women as "swimmers", she says. "To me, it's more intangible than that, a limitlessness that's closer to flying."

-Connor Garrel on Vicki Smith, July/August 2023


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The Constructed Landscape

The Constructed Landscape
November 4-16, 2023 | Upper Gallery
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver

 

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents The Constructed Landscape, a specially curated exhibition featuring photographic works by Bau-Xi’s urban landscape photographers.


In the Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, Fabrizio Nevola provided the following: “The study and practice of urbanism has been defined as “broadly encompass[ing] town planning and urban improvement, often a technical activity overseen by professionals; it is also taken to relate to the processes and interactions of urban society with the built environment, a more all-encompassing definition in which agency is afforded to urban populations in the shaping of the environment they inhabit.” (November 29, 2018).

Feats of engineering, technology and urban planning all contribute to the structure of a city: a composite of built environments designed to enhance and help us navigate contemporary life. The Constructed Landscape focuses on these built surroundings and the multiple ways in which they can be viewed, from the impressive patterning of a fully designed and realized community to the humble materials used to build it. This photography-based exhibition seeks to contrast the awe-inspiring and ever-evolving methods of transportation and achievements in architecture with the very real consequences of technical breakthroughs: a faster, bigger, and more rigorously designed city benefits the quality of life for its inhabitants as much as it produces complexities!

Bringing together works by George Byrne, Jeffrey Milstein, Anthony Redpath, Chris Shepherd, and the late Michael Wolf, this exhibition pays specific attention to capturing human interaction with and within the urban landscape. Whether it be an emotional response to organic presence in a constructed world, seeing familiar scenes anew through unexpected perspectives, or the creation of human connections - however lasting or fleeting - as we co-exist, the presence of life is essential to envisioning and reshaping the cities we inhabit.

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David T. Alexander | Less Trodden Lands Curate My Point of View

David T. Alexander | Less Trodden Lands Curate My Point of View
November 9 - 29, 2023
1384 Dufferin St. Toronto 
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 9, 5-7 pm

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present Less Trodden Lands Curate My Point of View, an all-new exhibition by renowned Canadian painter, David T. Alexander.

In the artist’s latest collection for the gallery, Alexander celebrates nearly 60 years of artistry and creative expression, presenting a suite of stunning new landscape pieces. His depictions of real and fictive landscapes are as poignant and powerful as ever, revealing decades-long explorations of geography, nature, and culture.

On his new exhibition, Alexander states,

“The three types of landscapes I engage in are mountains, prairies, and coastal areas. Repeated trips to the Arctic and other remote places have always been of great interest to me, getting to these less trodden places was a complex and fulfilling journey. Hiking, drawing, and recording the vastness of the land over an extended period has always been important to me.

Many of my early trips to remote places were on ships and treks under the midnight sun and the aurora borealis which is impossible to paint. Experiences in these travels have always allowed me to curate a personal point of view towards nature and wildlife.

It’s hard to take in the complexity of a sense of nothingness in a natural desert or grassland of the plains of Saskatchewan or being overwhelmed by the enormity of a huge mountain other than experiencing it in person. I need another lifetime and a half to satisfy my mind about nature.”

David T. Alexander’s work can be found in many prominent public, private and corporate collections throughout the world, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of London, the University of Toronto, Concordia University, the Museum of Art in Iceland, HBC Global Art Collection in New York, and in Embassies in Berlin, Beijing, and Krakow. Corporate and private collections include those in major Canadian cities as well as Dubai, Seoul, New York, Mumbai, and Nice, among several others.

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Nicole Katsuras | All the Colours of the Moon

Nicole Katsuras | All the Colours of the Moon
November 9 - 29, 2023
1384 Dufferin St. Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday November 9, 5-7 pm | Artist in Attendance

Bau-Xi Gallery is delighted to present All the Colours of the Moon, an all-new exhibition by Toronto-based artist, Nicole Katsuras. 

For centuries, we have looked to the moon for inspiration, interpreting its surface, and reconciling these interpretations with the beliefs and ideas of our times. Today, the moon remains an object for the imagination to explore while becoming a part of our collective memory and history.

Toronto-based artist Nicole Katsuras’ newest collection, All the Colours of the Moon, draws its title from a photographic series of the same name by artist Marcella Giulia Pace which captured lunar variations over a decade, collecting them in one striking composite to showcase the moon's many different faces, colours, and shapes, influenced by the earth's changing atmospheric molecules, light and materials.

The paintings featured in All the Colours of the Moon are lyrical abstractions rooted in Katsuras’ stream of consciousness and intuitive mark-making methods. Full of movement, colour, and form, the artist expertly juxtaposes varied gradient grounds with radiant thin and thick oil paint dragged, brushed, pushed, pulled, and extruded onto the canvas. Painting is let loose in service of discovering the medium’s pleasures and possibilities.

The gestural works of Abstract Expressionism, Ukiyo-e, Cobra, Impressionism, and the notable series by Taiso Yoshitoshi’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, all serve as influences on the collection, however, there is no single narrative that underpins Katsuras’ work. The viewer is invited to contemplate and interpret these abstract dreamscapes and floating worlds of spectral forms.

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Steven Nederveen | Special Trees


Steven Nederveen | Special Trees

November 4-16, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday November 4, 2-4pm


Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Special Trees, the new exhibition from Toronto based artist Steven Nederveen. This timely and moving series focuses on the evolving understanding of community amongst trees, and what humans can learn from embracing and emulating the trees' natural practice of working together and helping each other. Nederveen is known for drawing connections between our natural environment and aspects of spirituality through an artistic process that combines painting and photography. By combining and integrating these mediums, Nederveen develops a magical realism that insists on new perspectives on the landscape genre. 


Artist statement:

For the past 15 years I have used my depiction of trees to evoke an "austere and serene beauty, expressing a mood of spiritual solitude recognized in Zen Buddhist philosophy” (from the Definition of Wabi). My trees represented the isolation, strength and stillness we have within ourselves. In this latest body of work, my trees focus on the communal aspects of life. I've added vibrant colors and delicate patterns to small tree groupings to imply connectedness: a vision of trees as having families and communities. This comes from relatively recent scientific research that has revealed that trees have a complex and interconnected social network. Through their root systems and underground fungi networks, trees are able to communicate with each other and share resources, such as nutrients and water. This network is sometimes referred to as the "wood wide web". The concept of the "wood wide web" highlights the importance of interconnectedness and community, and that trees are not the solitary plants we once thought, but are actually living in dynamic relationships to the other plants, able to work together to raise saplings, ward off intruders and send warnings. Just as humans rely on each other for support, cooperation, and empathy, trees also depend on each other for their survival.


-Steven Nederveen, 2023

 

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Sheri Bakes | An Origami of Wind



Sheri Bakes | An Origami of Wind

October 21 - November 2, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday October 21, 2-4pm | Artist in Attendance


Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents An Origami of Wind, the new solo exhibition of atmospheric works from BC based artist Sheri Bakes. Inspired by the forests of Vancouver Island and North Vancouver, these atmospheric paintings reflect the artist’s ongoing interest in wind, motion, and meditative breathwork, with fine attention given to light and its stippled effect. Bakes’ ever-present indication of movement, breath and life-force - the unseen made visible - connects all her images. inviting quiet contemplation.


Artist’s statement:

This new body of work is an exploration of landscape around Vancouver Island as well as Vancouver’s North Shore mountains. When I lived in Vancouver I hiked in the North Shore mountains with my dogs 4-5 times a week in the mornings through the spring, summer and fall months. We mostly hiked a couple trails on Mt. Seymour, and the more we hiked these trails the more I felt the ever changing landscape occupying space inside myself: the boundary perception between inside and outside of myself became very thin. I suppose this is also true for the areas of Vancouver Island I’ve been fortunate enough to explore. I think I gravitate towards certain kinds of energy and these two places offer this specific energy and light in really strong, consistent abundance.

Wind, much like origami (the Japanese art of paper folding) moves through landscape, folding land into a kinetic sculpture of shapes. This show is a moving meditation on the relationship of origami in nature.


-Sheri Bakes 2023


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Joshua Jensen-Nagle | Sunsets and Fireworks

 

Joshua Jensen-Nagle | Sunsets and Fireworks
October 5 - 29, 2023
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin: 1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto 
Opening Reception: Thursday October 5, 5-7 pm | Artist in Attendance

This October, Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition by renowned Toronto-based photographer Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Sunsets and Fireworks. Known for his dreamy imagery and experimentation with photography as a means to capture a feeling, Joshua Jensen-Nagle’s new series is a combination of techniques masterfully layered together.

To make this body of work, Jensen-Nagle photographs inspirational sunsets, prints them large-scale in his Toronto studio, and then re-photographs them outside, setting off fireworks in their foreground, ultimately creating a celebratory effect with explosive colour palettes, breath-taking compositions, and quiet moments of underlying reflection. 

Jensen-Nagle states, “Throughout my career nostalgia has remained a consistent theme across my work.  Rather than simply documenting a reality, I strive to create a dream-like state in my imagery.  With this series, I found myself reflecting on the most nostalgic moments in my life; the ritual of watching the sunset each evening and lighting off fireworks for holiday celebrations. Sunsets and Fireworks commemorates my happiest moments, celebrates life’s simple pleasures, and expresses the light they have brought into my life.”

The inaugural images in this series were originally photographed in Canouan Island, Nosara, Los Angeles, Antigua, Mexico, Hawaii, The Bahamas, and Lake Erie. 

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Eric Louie | Becoming

Eric Louie | Becoming
October 5 - 17, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Thursday, October 5, 6-8pm | Artist in Attendance


Bau-Xi Vancouver is thrilled to present Becoming, the anticipated new exhibition from Vancouver based artist Eric Louie. Louie's signature shimmering abstract forms almost appear to slowly move and shift, reflecting the collection's theme of the four seasons and the ever-changing nature of life. Louie's works possess a chameleonic ability to exist comfortably among a multitude of aesthetics, from 1920s Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern through to the late 20th Century and into the forefront of contemporary design. 

Artist Statement:

My latest show approaches ideas surrounding the four seasons, perpetual change and cyclical nature of life. Different temperatures found in light and colour exemplify each passing moment depicted. The connection between the changing seasons, their varying colours and our projected memories associated with them is where the work touches most eloquently. Each painting involves some interaction and reaction between the imposing forms inhabiting the spaces I’ve created. Some semblance of the elements comes out in each scene where I’m focused on pulling that “feeling” out of myself.

-Eric Louie, 2023

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Bradley Wood | Inner Monologue

Bradley Wood Exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto

Bradley Wood | Inner Monologue 
October 5 - 29, 2023
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin: 1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto 
Opening Reception: Thursday October 5, 5-7 pm
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Bau-Xi Toronto presents Inner Monologue, the new exhibition from New York-based artist, Bradley Wood. Through expressive brushwork, Wood’s voyeuristic oil paintings place stylized figures within fictional spaces: tableaux of excess, opulence, and drama. Interested in the infinite possibilities those realms afford him, Wood treats each piece much like a playwright, staging a scene, imbuing each ‘actor’ with an imagined backstory. 
Artist Statement: 
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"Upon first glance, the focus of this series of portraits might seem as if it is on self-aware poses within lavish interiors. However, upon further inspection, a deeper focus comes into view: the thoughts and conversations occurring inside each character’s head. 

This series of fictitious portraits is an exploration of compositional and psychological tension, where lavish environments provide a backdrop that offers subtle clues to who these subjects are and their states of mind. 

What I find most magical in the process is how each of my subjects develop. I start with a general idea, piecing together various references—a nose from a 17th century painting, eyes from a friend’s Instagram, an article of clothing I noticed in a coffee shop, a patterned rug I saw in an old film. But soon, I often feel as if I'm losing control as the characters slowly reveal themselves to me. Rather than manipulate their thoughts and mood, I let them tell me who they are and what they're thinking. I kind of let go, with my painting hand, allowing the slip of a brush stroke to loosely happen only to realize it's an indication of an unplanned expression. I find myself laughing out loud in the solitude of my studio at times because even I, as the painter, am surprised time and time again.

- Bradley Wood, 2023

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Capturing Ephemera | The Art of Floral Photography

Capturing Ephemera | The Art of Floral Photography
October 5 - 28, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver


Bau-Xi Vancouver presents Capturing Ephemera, a curated exhibition featuring three photographic artists – Barbara Cole, Isabelle Menin and Martin Klimas - who have pushed the boundaries of floral imagery to exciting and innovative territory with their creativity and specialized technical precision. The medium of photography lends itself perfectly to floral imagery – its immediacy allows the artist to capture and immortalize any desired moment within a flower’s short and fragile lifespan.

Toronto based artist Barbara Cole, well known for her underwater images, thoughtfully selects various types of flowers with particular features and characteristics and submerges them in water, the moving current or sub-surface reflections giving them an otherworldly look and personality.

Belgian artist Isabelle Menin photographs multiple blooms individually and then proceeds to digitally separate them, sometimes down to the individual petal; she then arranges them in unexpected compositions often on a soft Rococo-like background, yielding a lush and sophisticated final image that encourages the viewer to enter further into the artist’s visionary dreamscape.

Finally, German photographer Martin Klimas uses an extremely high-speed camera and lens to photograph carefully selected flowers and branches in the exact instant that their ceramic vases are hit by a bullet. The perfect stillness of the blooms above juxtaposed by the tumultuous shatter below depicts both an actual and symbolic moment of change: chaos and calm co-existing in a sliver of time.

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Jamie Evrard | In Full Bloom



Jamie Evrard | In Full Bloom

September 9 - 23, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday, September 9, 2-4pm | Artist in Attendance


Bau-Xi Vancouver presents In Full Bloom, the new exhibition from Vancouver artist Jamie Evrard. A master of expressionist florals, Evrard offers a lush reverie of a collection which celebrates the bountiful blooms and blissful headiness of high summer in Vancouver. Through Evrard's atmospheric paintings, the viewer is led down meandering paths of nostalgia and appreciation for the very best of times - a welcome respite in today's uncertain world.


Artist Statement:

Another bright blue morning and I went out to pick some pints of blackberries and an enormous bunch of deep ultramarine hydrangeas, enough to fill a pail. Crashing through the back gate with my purple pilferage, I brushed by the mint patch, filling the air with its scent. Then, just as I was settling down to work in my studio I heard steel drums in the park, and had to run out to that warm green field strewn with feathers of the geese who inhabit it all summer between baseball games. The sun and the joyful music warmed me. Summer! Too much to fit into a canvas, and how could I describe this mad beauty anyway? I bought every colour I could find, and I tried.

Being inside my airy studio surrounded by garden felt outside; fuchsias, golds, a few cadmiums popping through the windows, a cool breeze. As I worked, each painting told me a story - not at all the one I had expected, but I listened as the shapes and colours unfolded sometimes way into the evening to the sounds of baseballs pinging off aluminum bats, kids laughing. A humming bird flew in and finally out again, and I put away my paints to try again the next day.

-Jamie Evrard, 2023

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