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Bau-Xi Photo is pleased to present Oceans, the latest series by David Burdeny. Oceans explores the geological formations of water bodies in the Bahamas, Australia, and Europe, capturing the complex, abstract qualities of the deep sea. Burdeny’s scenes are celebrations of the natural world, but, below the surface, they map a precious and precarious resource. Serpentine sandbars stretch into a Bahamian horizon; Australian bays are sharply rendered fields of impossible blue. Long exposures—evident in views of Sicily—soften waves, revealing formations beneath the water. Bodies that dot the cliff sides cast long shadows, indelible marks on an expanse otherwise untouched. The contemporary sublime is for Burdeny both a call to action that compels one to protect her world, and a message about culpability. Receding vistas are the dreamy escape; human presence is the sobering reminder. Like the depths his exposures reveal, Burdeny unearths layers—of not just the landscape—but the fraught relationship between the earth we inhabit and the environmental future we inherit. 

David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) holds Masters degrees in Architecture and Interior Design, and is the recipient of notable photography awards including Photographer of the Year (Nature category) at the International Photography Awards.

VIEW ARTWORK BY DAVID BURDENY HERE

CORI CREED | Stage

340 Dundas St. W, Toronto
March 4 - 18, 2017

Visit Bau-Xi Toronto this March to enjoy the latest series by landscape painter Cori Creed. Stage represents a project to capture fleeting glimpses of nature, to isolate in paint the total experience of a scene brimming with life. For the artist, painting is an exploration of this temporal and material process, with the final canvas continuing to unfold before our eyes in vibrant hues and strong painterly forms. Time becomes an essential medium for Creed, who both relishes and contends with the impossible task of rendering an elusive moment. Lush trees bow in the wind, waves lap against the shoreline, and soft clouds build on the horizon, with the artist's characteristic splashes and drips infusing each world with perspective and spontaneity. The resulting works are scenes of nature that play out indefinitely on a painted stage. 

Cori Creed was born in Vancouver in 1973. She studied Fine Art at Simon Fraser University and Design at Capilano College. Her work has been collected and exhibited in both Canada and abroad.

Joshua Jensen-Nagle has been selected to be a part of the prestigious UK art fair, Photo London. Bau-Xi Gallery will exhibit his work as the only Canadian gallery represented at the fair. The artwork selection for Photo London includes Jensen-Nagle's recent aerial beach photos from Italy and Brazil, ski scenes shot in Whistler, and the iconic image 'Washed Away' (shown above). Bau-Xi Gallery looks forward to the opportunity to present this talented Canadian artist to photography collectors in the UK.

Photo London runs May 18-21, 2017 at Somerset House in London

More about Photo London here

VIEW ARTWORK BY JOSHUA JENSEN-NAGLE HERE

'DOMESTIC ANIMALS' ON DISPLAY AT BAU-XI GALLERY VANCOUVER, JAN 21 - FEB 2, 2017

Human Animal Earth, 48 x 54 in. mixed media on canvas, 2016

We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Casey McGlynn to discuss his latest exhibition, 'Domestic Animals'

What do you want to achieve with autobiographical drawings?

With the autobiographical drawings, I'm continuing my 20 year pursuit of documenting the narrative of my inner life through imagery. Currently, family life has been my  foremost preoccupation and the imagery of my new found domesticity - a father of 3 young children - flows naturally. 

The structured family life and its weight aren't used often as the subject matter in paintings. With 'Domestic Animals', what are you hoping to say about domestic life?

Family life is simple: supper time; craft time; nap time. I, my wife, and our children participate in all these routine activities together. There is a great deal of beauty and adventure within these small moments.

What is the significance of the animals?

Animals were the beginning of my career as a working artist. I have always been an artist  - an obsessed drawer as child, graduating from painting T-shirts to cars. In 1995, I created my first animal based painting which helped to launch my career and introduce me to the world of fine art. 

How do you decide your color palettes?

Though I only realized the relationship halfway through completing 'Domestic Animals', the colours I used are drawn from the work of a Dutch outsider artist that I own. It is a painting of cheese that hangs in my peripheral vision in my studio. I wasn't consciously referencing the colours in this painting, but clearly, my fondness for it invaded my pratice. 

The sectioning within a painting -- does it carry any meaning, and if so, how do you determine that?

It is a reference to comic book panels, which i love.

Has any of your family members commented on this series of work?

My wife actually said she wanted to keep the paintings in the series that are very personal. But, I felt it was important to exhibit them ... the best joy is that I get to be with the subjects in my paintings everyday.  

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

January 7 - 21
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception January 7
2:00 - 4:00 pm

From her more representative works of snowy scenes, to soft patterns of concentric lines, and pastel hues, Pat O’Hara’s recent paintings explore the motif of strings, but with a higher velocity: strokes are soft and bright, simultaneously explosive and strong. There is visible confidence in the artist's choice of bold colours, while her inclusion of playful accents on white and black strands stand out among the varying chroma, giving these paintings a sense of grounding. Experiments with resin add luminosity and dimension to her work.

Enriched by the shades of forest, sea, and nature, Linearity demonstrates a sense of certainty and assertion in O'Hara's artistry.

VIEW THE COLLECTION HERE

 Installation view of Tom Burrows' 2016 solo show at Bau-Xi Toronto

Bau-Xi Gallery is proud to share that Tom Burrows’ work #4 Hematoma: Violet/Red will be displayed in an upcoming exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.

This piece, which is part of their public collection, will be shown in The hold: studies in the contemporary collection, opening this winter. The form and allusion of #4 Hematoma: Violet/Red inspired the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes to include the piece in this exhibition, which explores the idea of the container and embrace.

Tom Burrows’ panel will be hanging alongside pieces by Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Napoleon Brousseau, Lyne Lapointe and Martha Fleming, Anne Ramsden, Luis Jacob, Ted Rettig, Gabrielle Sims and Lisa Visser.

The exhibition will be on view from 7 January to 9 April 2017 at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

VIEW TOM BURROWS WORK

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• Art proposals, collection planning and curation
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Artwork pictured: Virginia Mak, "Small Moments 01", 47 X 47 inches, chromogenic print mounted to archival substrate.

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Enjoy the rich detail of Cameron's thick impasto techniques this January at Bau-Xi Toronto

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

January 7 - 21
340 Dundas St. West, Toronto
Opening Reception January 7
2:00 - 4:00 pm

"Rainbow Station" is an exhibition of new work by one of Canada’s favourite contemporary landscape painters, whose explorative relationship with colour and texture has defined his work for over 40 years. Immersed in the arts from a young age, Alex Cameron was introduced to New York City’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1960s, and witnessed concurrent and equally powerful experiments in abstraction back home in Toronto, where he worked as a studio assistant for the late Jack Bush in the mid-1970s. Cameron’s celebration of pure pigment has since characterized his canvases, with his thick painterly application lends lively sculptural form to both his energetic landscapes and non-representational studies. Not only bold and bright, Cameron’s colours are unconventional, inverted, and built up in linear “ropes” of paint—often applied straight from the tube—that make his surfaces hum with life. His subjects—the varied landscapes of Canada observed during his regular coast to coast travels—are not merely captured or recorded in paint, but rather honoured for their complexity; they are organic, total, and magical environments that live and grow.

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.

VIEW THE COLLECTION HERE