Steven Nederveen | Heart Centre
November 16 - 30, 2024
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Main Level
Opening Reception: Saturday November 16, 2-4pm
Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present Heart Centre, the new solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Steven Nederveen. In this new series, Nederveen's signature combination of painting and photography is heightened by soft colour fields to fashion a dreamlike world of peaceful clarity. Expansive coastal vistas harmonized with these colour fields serve to symbolize connections between our natural environment and aspects of spirituality.
Artist Statement
This new collection brings the viewer into a soft expanse where the universe becomes a kind and gentle extension of ourselves. Surrender to the timeless power of the ocean while being transported to an ephemeral dreaminess through glowing fields of saturated colour.
My work is heavily influenced by meditation practices, serving as a guide for internal reflection and harmony with the external world. In yoga and meditation, the Heart Centre refers to the central body chakra, or energy point on the body. This spot is our centre of love for oneself and others, compassion, empathy and forgiveness. In Sanskrit this chakra is called Anahata, meaning 'infinite', 'unhurt' or 'boundless’. I bring these ideas into my landscape images to marry both our inner and outer worlds.
I intentionally draw from the Abstract Expressionists in these works to use similar signifiers like Mark Rothko’s framing of colour blocks and Barnett Newman’s ‘zip’ lines. Both artists were interested in the transcendent experience as well.
-Steven Nederveen, 2024
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