Exhibitions

Katrin Korfmann
March 3-17, 2018
350 Dundas St West, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday March 3, 2:00 - 4:00pm

Bau-Xi Photo is pleased to present an exhibition of work by European photographer Katrin Korfmann. Since the early 1990’s, Korfmann has been examining the relationship between the observer and the observed, the effect of the camera on behaviour, and the social codes of the spectator within the public realm. Her dynamic compositions depict social rituals and scenes from everyday life. Time is an important determinant in her work, as Korfmann presents separate sequential incidents from a chosen time and place in each singular composition.

Korfmann’s work has exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, alternative art institutions and public spaces.  She has been widely collected in both private and public collections such as the ING Art Collection, European Patent Office and the Robert Bosch Foundation.

Originally from Germany, Korfmann lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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In the latest series of paintings by Alex Cameron, the artist turns his gaze skyward. Celestial objects—super moons, constellations, and comets—blend with terrestrial phenomena like fire embers, snow, and cloud formations to create energetic landscapes in a style unique to Cameron and his over 40 year long career.  David’s Bonfire refers warmly to an evening at the Rideau Lakes, when the artist spent time with long time friend and fellow painter David Bolduc on holiday with their families. The occasion--fondly remembered--included lively painting sessions, and what Cameron refers to as a "kitchen show:" watercolours adorned the cottage walls, and were later exchanged between artists, and taken home to be cherished for years. Memory, then, becomes for Cameron a proverbial bridge, connecting and uniting land, sky, and stars.

Alex Cameron’s paintings have been collected extensively in Canada and abroad. Notable collections include the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Bank of Canada, and The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Art Collection. He lives and works in Toronto. 

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Tom  Burrows | The Curve of Time
February 3-17, 2018
3045 Granville St, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 3, 2:00 - 4:00pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver is pleased to present The Curve of Time, an exhibition of work by renowned Canadian artist Tom Burrows. For the last 30 years, Burrows has been committed to exploring the medium of cast pigment polymer resin focusing on colour fields. The panels included in this exhibition recall and reflect the geography of a coast peopled for untold millennia in the curve of time.

The Curve of Time borrows its name from the eponymous memoir of M. W. Blanchet. Following the disappearance of her husband, Blanchet and her children lived aboard a vessel to allow for the summer rental of the family’s onshore home. Blanchet's travel log commences in 1926 and recounts the fifteen summers she spent cruising the British Columbia coast in a small gasoline powered launch with her five children.

Blanchet’s The Curve of Time served as a catalyst for Burrows, whose eight-meter boat, Caprice spurred the artist to acquire his own vessel which he fondly named Gina Marie. The artist's journey under the sail of Gina Marie culminates in a lucid picture of life afloat complex tidal waters.

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350 Dundas St West, Toronto
February 3-17, 2018

This month, Bau-Xi Photo is pleased to present a selection of the newest work by gallery artists, featuring Cara Barer, David Burdeny, Anthony Redpath and Barbara Cole. 

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Kathryn Macnaughton | Fixed State
January 13-27, 2018
340 Dundas St West, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday January 13, 2:00-4:00 pm 

Kathryn Macnaughton’s latest exhibition Fixed State seamlessly knits together high Modernism, graphic design, vintage print media, and other aesthetic references from popular culture with both formal concision and the intimate physicality of the human form. The artist's paintings, born of a process which starts with digital mock-ups (and endless possible variations), expose the sometimes tense relationships between digital technologies and artistic authenticity.

“When I was an illustrator and graphic designer, I would hand draw and scan images from vintage magazines and assemble them on the computer. I wanted my digital work to look raw and handmade. Now that I create “physical” paintings, I want to give the illusion that the work is digital.”

But this graphic simplicity yields to more subtle, painterly moments that complicate viewing in a way that for Macnaughton is very purposeful: imperfection—the futility in attempting to achieve digital precision with paint, ink, and canvas—is another of the artist’s chosen mediums. The longer one looks, the more one sees: a drop of paint, a swatch of raw canvas, an inexact line all betray the very human process behind each composition. In this way, the digital roots of Macnaughton’s practice ironically reveal again their deeper analog histories; cut-and-paste, assemblage, collage, layers and transparencies are art historical practices that continue to inform the language of digital technologies. And the resulting paintings in Fixed State seem to be about just that: the wealth of meaning inherent in our visual languages when they are stripped down to their most essential.

Mel Gausden | Girls Gone Wild
January 13-27, 2018
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 13, 2:00 - 4:00pm

Canadian landscape painting has mythologized the great outdoors through the work of Tom Thomson, A.Y. Jackson and David Milne. Emerging artist Mel Gausden marks a departure from the Canadian landscape tradition—a genre historically dominated by male painters—by centralizing the experience of women in nature, and her own in Girls Gone Wild, the artist's inaugural exhibition at Bau-Xi Vancouver.

Typically overlooked in traditional landscape painting, Gausden's canvases feature women as outdoors people: active participants who build fires, climb fences, and carry their own canoes. Her female subjects, often situated or leaving evidence of their trace, discover themselves within the natural environment in which they gather, explore and commune.

The visual culture of our contemporary digital age informs Gausden's unconventional palette. Neon silhouettes and brightly hued accents take reference from pre-set Instagram camera filters, fashion and consumer trends. The artist's manipulation of oil paint varies from sculptural— bending and piling thick layers of paint into matchsticks of textured impasto—to painterly— diluting paint until it drips with controlled precision— to sketchlike with her mark-making. For Gausden, the act of painting is intuitive as much as it is intentional; an exploratory act of personal and cultural identity which fuses past and present influences to create new possibilities for representation.

Gallery Artists | Focus on WINTER by Joshua Jensen-Nagle
January 13-27, 2018
350 Dundas St West, Toronto

For the month of January, Bau-Xi Photo is pleased to present a group exhibition, featuring new works from Joshua Jensen-Nagle's ongoing series, WINTER. For over a decade, the prominent Canadian photographer has been mesmerizing viewers with his impressionistic imagery. In the latest iteration of WINTER, Jensen-Nagle explores popular winter tourist destinations, such as Whistler, St. Moritz, Lake Louise and Banff.  

Jensen-Nagle bases his successful full-time art practice in Toronto. He uses his frequent travels abroad as inspiration for many of his photographic series. Having mounted over thirty exhibitions in the last eight years, he is widely recognized for his practice, and has been collected throughout North America and Europe.

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