Kyle Scheurmann: Artist Talk & Documentary Viewing
Kyle Scheurmann | Artist Talk & Documentary Viewing
June 7, 2025
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
2:00 - 4:00 PM
We welcome guests to enjoy Kyle Scheurmann’s artist talk on Saturday, June 7th, 2025 from 2:00 – 4:00 PM at Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin. During this event, guests will hear the artist speak to his experience creating this compelling body of work, and a screening of “A Beautiful Resistance” – a short documentary about the artists practice as journalism, conservation and activism.
This June, artist and activist Kyle Scheurmann unveils his latest solo exhibition, We’re All In This Together, a deeply moving body of work that captures the simultaneous beauty and devastation of British Columbia’s threatened forests.
Known for his immersive, emotionally charged paintings of wilderness and climate tension, Scheurmann brings viewers face to face with a landscape on the edge - burning, blooming, grieving, and growing. From old-growth blockades to wildfire-scarred clearings, his paintings are visual meditations on environmental collapse and the resilience that endures in its wake.
As artist and educator Liz Toohey-Wiese reflects, “To truly know a landscape… is to commit to having your heart broken over and over again.” Her words accompany the exhibition as an essay, revealing the emotional and philosophical depths behind Scheurmann’s work.
Through richly layered compositions, Scheurmann invites viewers into scenes where human and more-than-human figures coexist with unsettling contradiction: bears feast among smouldering stumps, helicopters hover over burning trees, and people rebuild homes beside fields of blooming fireweed. These paintings don’t shy away from the gravity of ecological loss - but neither do they let go of hope.
“Alongside loss there is overwhelming beauty,” Toohey-Wiese writes. “How do we grieve the damage that has been done while still finding the energy to tend to what remains?”
We’re All In This Together is an invitation to look closer - to hold our gaze on the uncomfortable truths of climate collapse while still discovering the vitality that persists. “This work is as much about empathy as it is about ecosystems,” says Kyle Matuzewski, co-director of Bau-Xi Gallery.
Despite the urgency and gravity of the subject matter, the paintings are generous, even abundant. They do not offer easy answers, but they do offer beauty, connection, and a renewed sense of responsibility. As Toohey-Wiese perfectly summarizes, “Woven in with the sharp pain of witnessing loss, we can also feel the grounded joy of being present with everything that is still here with us.”
WATCH KYLE SCHEURMANN'S DOCUMENTARY "A BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE" HERE