Kathryn Macnaughton was among six Canadian visual artists asked by international magazine, The Kit to re-imagine the classic Gap 1969 jean jacket. Macnaughton's stunning interpretation of the garment is on display at The Gap at Bloor and Bay Street (60 Bloor St W).
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Chris Temple, Homage to Hugh and Dot Mackenzie, 49.5 x 39.5 inches, ACQUIRE
Chris Temple's latest painting is a beautiful homage to Bau-Xi Gallery artist Hugh Mackenzie and his late wife, Dorothy Mackenzie.
Chris Temple has exhibited extensively across Canada, and is featured in prominent collections of institutions such as the Art Gallery of Mississauga, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Price Waterhouse Toronto, the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, and the Canada Council Art Bank.
A graduate of the Ontario College of Art, Chris Temple has been capturing the complexity and sublimity of Canada’s urban environments for over 30 years. Indeed, Temple describes himself as a “landscape painter” whose fascination with the urban has prompted explorations all over North America and Europe in search of the “urban core compression, intricate infrastructure, and industrial decay that [he] finds so interesting to ponder.” Temple’s technically precise paintings render the cityscape as something both strong and delicate, familiar yet mysterious, and always reverent of contemporary landscape as an endless source of visual interest.
Bratsa Bonifacho, English Bay Sunset, 36 X 36 inches, acrylic on canvas.
Artist Reception: Saturday, October 15, 2-4PM
ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE
Bratsa Bonifacho's interest in communication and cultural identity is the foundation for his latest exhibition, Return to Babylonia. A fascination with Akkadian, the ancient language of a Babylonia, led the artist to explore the triangle and line motifs of the alphabet. A breaking-up and bursting of the iconic grid patterning and Roman alphabet of the artist's seminal "Habitat Pixel" series, Bonifacho's latest paintings deconstruct and splay the recognizable shape of letters, numbers and symbols into blooms of cacophonous colour.
Return to Babylonia also features a sub-series of thirty-one 13 X 13 inch "Tablet" paintings inspired by the palette board he uses to mix paint. Pure, rich oils collide, blend, rise and fall on the tablet surface effectively underscoring or disguising letters and numbers of the Roman alphabet.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bratsa Bonifacho is a senior artist based in Vancouver, Canada. His work is held in many private, corporate and permanent museum collections across five continents. Major collections held include the Canadian Embassy in Argentina, Museum of Modern Art in Yugoslavia, the National Museum of Serbia and the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa.
Internationally recognized for his deeply layered abstract paintings, an intense interest in technology, communication and cultural identity is at the forefront of his current artistic practice.
Bonifacho joined Bau-Xi Gallery in 1998 and affiliate gallery, Foster/White Gallery in Seattle in 2004.
Artwork details: 'Warm Movement,' 1964, oil on canvas. SOLD
The work of Kenneth Lochhead (1926-2006) represents in many ways the complex and varied strata that make up Canadian art history in the 20th century. From stylized surrealism, to geometric abstraction, to abstracted landscape, Lochhead's paintings are era-defining in their commitment to both aesthetic philosophies and experimentation with media.
The conceptual underpinnings of Lochhead's mid-century abstractions are detailed by curator Ted Fraser in the catalogue for "Kenneth Lochhead: Garden of Light," a text produced by the Mackenzie Art Gallery in 2005:
"Lochhead's abstractions revel in the romanticism of the lost garden of modernism, enjoying an organic, almost forbidden asymmetry...Unlike many contemporaries, Lochhead never painted confusing mazes as symbols of alienation, fear and anxiety. To him, colour abstraction was a path toward understanding and truth...Through colour, these are expansive pictures, not confined spaces."
Bau-Xi Gallery is proud to represent the Lochhead estate, and regularly displays rare and exciting works spanning the artist's career from the 1960s-1990s.
Above: Kenneth Lochhead in his Gatineau studio.
VIEW THE COLLECTION OF OILS AND WATERCOLOURS HERE
Andre Petterson artwork is featured in this stunning design by Toronto-based interior design practice, Cecconi Simone, from 2010.
Artwork details: 'Separation and Conversion," 53 X 84 inches, Edition of 7, Chromogenic print mounted to archival substrate.
Visit Bau-Xi Photo to view the incredible new series by Anthony Redpath--one that at both redefines and, as the exhibition title suggests, refines representations of the industrial landscape. RE-FINED is on now until September 22nd at 324 Dundas St. West.
READ THE CATALOGUE ESSAY: "An Uneasy Distance: Anthony Redpath’s Re-Fined" by Sky Gooden
Saturday September 10th, 2-4pm
Join us for opening receptions at Bau-Xi Toronto and Bau-Xi Photo (324 & 340 Dundas St West, Toronto.
'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.
Andre Petterson, Of the Hour, mixed media on panel, 48 x 48 inches, click for more information
Join us Saturday September 10th from 2-4 pm for the opening reception of Andre Petterson's exhibition 'Transition'.
Today's featured pair showcases two incredible works by Bau-Xi artists. 'Lavender' by Sheri Bakes--just installed following its arrival from Vancouver--makes for an exciting companion to Chris Temple's 'Park' in our main floor gallery.
Temple's refined, architectural studies are just as much compositions of light and space as they are of a familiar, urban landscape. 'Park' offers us an experiment in looking, characteristic of the artist's work: multiple, simultaneous perspectives combine as our view rushes in on a clarifying piece of sky.
Like Temple, Bakes uses light to soften the world and play with its focus. The large scale of 'Lavender' lends an energizing effect of this painting in its study of growth, movement, breath and light.
Together and alone, Temple and Bakes show us how to create seemingly expansive worlds on a canvas surface.
Artwork details:
Sheri Bakes, 'Lavender,' 66 X 72 inches, oil on canvas, $9700 | VIEW COLLECTION
Chris Temple, 'Park,' 40 X 58 inches, oil on canvas, $13,500 | VIEW COLLECTION
A celebration of the close relationship and constant inspiration her mother is to her creative development, Sheri Bakes upcoming exhibition imbues the spirit of her mother with her perennial interest in the effects of light and movement on natural subjects.
"My mother has given me, among other things, the gift of appreciating awe-inspiring beauty in nature. I have spent hours with her in her garden. Whether she works quietly on her own or expresses wonderment and joy in the blossoming of a Dahlia, she shares with me the incredible beauty of both her own physical garden, and her own personal, internal garden."
During the early stage of planning 'Stars in Flowers, for my Mom, Bakes' mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The physical implications of the disorder left Bakes to wonder how her mother's garden might change. The echo of her mother's constant refrain at the time of diagnosis comforted and encouraged the artist to paint with new fearlessness: "We have to live for today, not worry about tomorrow."
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