Exhibitions

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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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
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
October 5 - 29, 2023
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin: 1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto 
Opening Reception: Thursday October 5, 5-7 pm | Artist in Attendance

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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