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Left: After Sunset Lake Huron; Right: Four After Sunset Lake Huron Prints Rolled and Standing

CONSTRUCT | October 15 - 29, 2016

Opening reception: Saturday October 15th, 2-4 pm, artist in attendance

Construct is a series of interventions on physical photographic prints by Toronto artist Chris Shepherd. Largely influenced by abstract expressionist painters and sculptors from the 1960s onward, Shepherd plays with his fascination for geometry, colour, and the reduction of subjects and surfaces to their essential forms. Through shredding, cutting, tearing, folding, crumpling and other processes, Shepherd re-configures his existing images into sculptural objects. These new sculptures are then re-photographed, resulting in an image that prompts viewers to re-evaluate the conventional language of photography. Views of sky, urban greenery, and industrial parking lots infuse Shepherd's experiments in medium with a distinct quality of the everyday. Memory, nostalgia, documentation and other established tropes of photography become secondary to form and object, activating dialogue about the very definition of the medium itself.

VIEW CHRIS SHEPHERD PHOTOGRAPHS HERE

We love this pair of artworks by David Alexander and Andre Petterson, currently on display in our main gallery in Toronto. Petterson's "Hidden Chapters" draws compellingly on the artist's fascination with the typewriter motif, here multiplied to monumental effect. The mixed media on panel piece mirrors the graphic line work of David Alexander's "Pushing Through Greens"-- a complex canvas made up of reflected reeds and delicate, watery surfaces. 

Artwork details from left: Alexander, "Pushing Through Greens," acrylic on canvas, 46 X 52 inches. |  Andre Petterson, "Hidden Chapters," mixed media on panel, 72 X 48 inches.

VIEW DAVID ALEXANDER COLLECTION HERE

VIEW ANDRE PETTERSON COLLECTION HERE

As we prepare for Joshua Jensen-Nagle's much anticipated November exhibition 'Modern Leisure', here are some opportunities to see the new exhibition and meet the artist:

PREVIEW EVENT AT ART TORONTO:

Friday October 28th, 6-8pm, Booth A30
featuring artist talk and beverages

OPENING RECEPTION FOR 'MODERN LEISURE': 

Saturday November 5th, 2-4pm
Bau-Xi Photo: 324 Dundas St. West
Show runs until November 22nd

CLICK TO PREVIEW JOSHUA JENSEN-NAGLE ARTWORK HERE

ABOUT MODERN LEISURE

Joshua Jensen-Nagle has long been fascinated with the rich, lusty history of European beaches. In Modern Leisure, Jensen-Nagle continues this exploration in his signature style, capturing sun-soaked vistas of European shorelines. Photographed from different vantage points, Jensen-Nagle’s scenes contrast the scattering of modern day bathers basking in the sun—leisurely escaping everyday life—with the dramatic ancient promontories, unique rock formations, and deep caves found on the coasts of Italy, Portugal, France, and Spain. The artist believes these photographs are not to be interpreted as documentation of places or people in time, but rather as views that stimulate the onlooker’s own emotional memories.

Jensen-Nagle has mounted over fifty exhibitions in the last 12 years, and is collected widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia. He bases his successful full-time art practice in Toronto.

Join us this Saturday, September 10th from 2-4pm at Bau-Xi Gallery (340 Dundas St. West, Toronto) for the opening of Hugh Mackenzie's latest exhibition, 'Show 88'.

'Show 88' is for Hugh Mackenzie a proclamation—of age, of loss, and of love. This September, Bau-Xi Gallery will be presenting new paintings by Mackenzie, whose powerful work has stirred the collective consciousness of audiences from the 1950s to the present day. Oil paintings draw on genres familiar to the artist—abstracted cityscapes and portraits that glimpse both the sublimity of the urban landscape and the dark intimacy of the human body in paint. Show 88 will also include works by the late Dorothy Mackenzie, to whom the entire exhibition is dedicated. Dorothy’s still life paintings will showcase her skilled hand in watercolour and oils while also serving as living memories in conversation with her husband's work.

Hugh Mackenzie has exhibited extensively across the country, is the subject of numerous catalogues and publications and is represented in such major collections as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Carleton University Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. The artist also has a large and avid following of private collectors.

CLICK TO VIEW 'SHOW 88' BY HUGH MACKENZIE

Artwork details: Robert Marchessault, 'Pini di Sardenga,' oil on panel, 44 X 44 in., $11,000.

On display now at Bau-Xi Toronto: this tranquil painting by Marchessault, who has dedicated his practice to exploring the endless variations of the tree form for decades. But these trees are not simply painted versions of real spaces. Indeed, the most striking and poetic aspect of Marchessault’s work is in the fact that his trees are imagined, hybrid species, painted from the artist’s memory.

Marchessault's tree figures begin as swift, gestural lines of paint, with branches and foliage growing out of this initial abstraction as organically as nature itself, what the artist describes as “the way energy flows up and through a tree.” Together, these explorations lend a distinct, contemporary freshness to Marchessault’s recent work, and demonstrate the artist’s willingness to investigate the limits of his subject matter while maintaining what he describes as the ability of the tree to evoke “universal yet intensely personal” responses in the viewer.

'Pini di Sardenga' is certainly a romantic example of this vision. One cannot help but envision these two trees as a pair, each full of life and supporting the other with grace and stoicism.

VIEW ROBERT MARCHESSAULT FULL COLLECTION HERE

Take a look at Bau-Xi Toronto’s invitation for its very first exhibition, featuring work by painter Ken Wallace. With Bau-Xi Vancouver already established and thriving since 1965, Paul and Xisa Huang opened their second location in Toronto to serve a wider Canadian patronage. Show cards like these were meticulously hand-printed in the gallery basement—a sure indication of the gallery’s dedication to keeping patrons informed.

In 1976, Bau-Xi promised to exhibit artists and work with a view of the future. Today, Bau-Xi carries on this forward-thinking sentiment, while also making sure to honour the important cultural history of an institution that serves clients across the country.

Bau-Xi continues to represent the incredible work of Ken Wallace in both Toronto and Vancouver.

VIEW KEN WALLACE FULL COLLECTION HERE

Hugh Mackenzie, Exodus, 2016, oil on paper, 6.5 x 9.5 inches

SHOW 88: Dedicated to the Memory of Dorothy Mackenzie

SEPTEMBER 10th - 22nd, 2016

Opening reception: Saturday September 10th, 2-4pm, artist in attendance

Show 88 is for Hugh Mackenzie a proclamation—of age, of loss, and of love. This September, Bau-Xi Gallery will be presenting new paintings by Mackenzie, whose powerful work has stirred the collective consciousness of audiences from the 1950s to the present day. Oil paintings draw on genres familiar to the artist—abstracted cityscapes and portraits that glimpse both the sublimity of the urban landscape and the dark intimacy of the human body in paint. Show 88 will also include works by the late Dorothy Mackenzie, to whom the entire exhibition is dedicated. Dorothy’s still life paintings will showcase her skilled hand in watercolour and oils while also serving as living memories in conversation with her husband's work.

Hugh Mackenzie has exhibited extensively across the country, is the subject of numerous catalogues and publications and is represented in such major collections as the Art Gallery of Ontario, Carleton University Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art. The artist also has a large and avid following of private collectors.

CLICK TO VIEW 'SHOW 88' BY HUGH MACKENZIE

Paris Rooftops 12, chromogenic print, editions of 9 in 2 sizes. Click image for more information.

Michael Wolf is an internationally renowned photographer, known for his impressive large format images of dense architectural landscapes in cities like Paris, Chicago and Hong Kong.

Wolf began his interest in photography when studying at UC Berkeley and the Folkwang School with Otto Steinert in Essen, Germany. Wolf later moved to Hong Kong in 1994 to begin his artistic career as a contract photographer for Stern Magazine. Since 2001, Wolf has been focusing on his own projects, drawing his focus to the tradition of socially concerned photography, while also engaging with the radical transformation of photography of recent years. From this unique perspective, he has produced a body of work which deals with the complex reality of contemporary city life in a way that defies categorization.

Michael Wolf’s work has been exhibited in numerous locations including the Venice Biennale for Architecture; Aperture Gallery, New York; Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland; Museum for Work in Hamburg, Germany; Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennial; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. His work is held in many permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; San Jose Museum of Art, California; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum Folkwang, Essen; German Museum for Architecture, Frankfurt.

CLICK TO VIEW MICHAEL WOLF ARTWORK