Vicky Christou | Soft Gravity
November 16 - 30, 2024
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Upper Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday November 16, 2-4pm
Artist In Attendance
Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Soft Gravity, the new solo exhibition from Vancouver based abstract painter Vicky Christou. Meditation and breathwork are an intrinsic aspect of her signature extruded-paint technique, with every extruded line of paint being executed in a single exhaled breath. Her works are inspired by quiet observations of nature and suggest a sublime, universal order.
Artist Statement:
My processes are the driving content of my work; my continued exploration of paint materiality is encoded with personal narratives and the awareness of gendered histories. My paintings simultaneously reference craft and abstraction.
For my new exhibition entitled “Soft Gravity” I was inspired by the solace found in walks along local shorelines and forest trails. During these walks I felt a deep connection with and appreciation of nature, benefiting from the restorative powers in its seasonal changes of colours and patterns. The title “Soft Gravity” refers to a feeling of buoyancy, which I interpret as an impermanent and atmospheric quality of rising. I observed the early morning fog lifting over the ocean and pollen particles being swept up by the wind - I was inspired to capture the sensations of whirling, floating and the denial of gravity that the fog and wind made appear so effortless.
Though I still begin with the foundational bones of the structured grid, these new works allow for the grid to become organic, no longer an enclosed structure – it opens up to weightlessness, free movement, and new possibilities.
-Vicky Christou, 2024
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