Vicky Christou | Ebb and Flow

Vicky Christou | Ebb and Flow
May 9-23, 2026
Upper Gallery
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday May 9, 2-4pm
Artist in Attendance

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Ebb and Flow, the new solo exhibition by Vancouver artist Vicky Christou. 

Ever inspired by nature and the sublime order of the universe, Vicky Christou continues to build on this theme with meditative, highly textural, minimalist works, focusing on elegantly abstracted iterations of forest and field bracken, tidal elements, and celestial cycles. The rhythmic and gradual shifts of extruded paint lines suggest and emphasize the natural progression of all things.


Artist Statement:

This body of work emerges from time spent walking along local shorelines and forest trails, where I am drawn to the shifting rhythms of the natural world. Seasonal changes offer moments of quiet connection, which I translate into symbolic abstract forms that echo the ebb and flow of daily life. 

I continue exploration of the visual and conceptual dialogue between crafted textiles and the materiality of paint. Echoing the meditative labour of weaving, my process is grounded in repetition and duration, where time, gesture, and touch are embedded within the surface. Some lines soften through circular motion, while others maintain a measured regularity; painterly gesture adopts the tactile sensibility of textile.

These paintings reflect an ongoing mediation on cycles amidst unpredictability: the order within chaos. Repeated marks accumulate into expansive grids that suggest both structure and fluidity: an ocean of pattern, like currents folding into one another. Change is constant, yet patterns persist.

-Vicky Christou, 2026


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