Exhibitions

Kyle Scheurmann | Falling Stars Made of Ashes

Kyle Scheurmann | Falling Stars Made of Ashes
September 14-28, 2024
Upper Gallery
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday September 14, 2-4pm
Artist in Attendance
Artist Talk & Tour Sunday September 15, 1pm


Bau-Xi Vancouver is proud to present “Falling Stars Made Of Ashes”, the highly anticipated solo exhibition by Ontario-based artist and old growth conservation activist Kyle Scheurmann. This exhibition is the artist's inaugural solo exhibition with Bau-Xi Vancouver.

This seminal collection features the artist’s finest level of detail to date, as well as his masterful ability to poetically encapsulate the increasingly threatening predicament of Canada's forests and its inhabitants. Scheurmann never shies away from portraying the forest fires which he has increasingly witnessed, sometimes even using the ashes of old growth wood shards left over from clearcut sites as a medium on the canvas. The artist himself often appears in the paintings as a miniscule human presence in the vast and wild landscape, balancing high in a burning tree or teetering on the precipice of a waterfall along with his dwarfed cottage studio, attempting to do his part in the face of a Herculean plight.


Artist Statement:

There weren’t supposed to be any fires in this new exhibition. It was the one rule I tried to make for myself when I first started painting it four months ago. This show was supposed to be a celebration of the forest, colourfully overgrown and lush. Without a long research trip immediately preceding these new paintings - paddling old-growth or scouting fresh clearcuts - my plan was to revisit the places that have stuck out the most in my dreams from all the time I did spend in the forest over the last few years.

Then I woke up on May 12th, six weeks into painting this show, and smoke filled the air around my studio in Southwestern Ontario. I could smell it before I even opened my eyes in bed that morning.

At the time of writing this, I’m watching Jasper burn. A third of their community lost with more hot weather on the way.

It was naive of me to think I could open a show in Vancouver during peak fire season without hanging paintings that reflect our wildfire reality. That research trip I missed in the spring has now been scheduled around this exhibition, 3 weeks in the bush. But I’ve been watching the news, keeping my plans flexible. The Sooke fire is growing as I type and new fires keep popping up around Kelowna every day, who knows what the conditions will be when I start driving west in a few weeks.

So, despite my initial intention, I’ve been painting fires. On the hills above our homes, on the shorelines we paddle past and over the horizons we drive towards.

Let them remind you of our interconnectedness. Let them remind you that there is hope in community. Let each one serve as an urgent request to acknowledge the state of our land and our people.

-Kyle Scheurmann, 2024

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Sheila Kernan | Interplay: Memory and Connection


Sheila Kernan | Interplay: Memory and Connection
August 17-31, 2024
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday August 17, 2-4pm
Artist in Attendance
Artist Talk & Tour August 17 2:15-2:30pm


Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Interplay: Memory and Connection, the new solo exhibition from Calgary-based artist Sheila Kernan. In this series, Kernan continues to explore her fascination with coastal vistas in her signature multi-technique style. New landscapes depict a reverence for British Columbia’s forests, rocky shores and islands, coloured and emphasized through memory and eliciting connection with the viewer through shared experience and emotion. The immersive, textural scenes are replete with the energy of the wild landscape. 


Artist's statement:

Memory is a fluid and subjective phenomenon that is continually shaped by our experiences and emotions. Through my practice, I consistently explore this malleable nature of past recollections and how they evolve over time. I am interested in how the power of perspective can shape and sometimes change our current understanding of what once was.

I value evolution and am always searching for new ways to combine materials and to construct and deconstruct my paintings. This uncertainty of outcome is what keeps things fresh, exciting, and challenging. I seek to reconnect with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery, chasing the rush that accompanies each brushstroke and each new artistic revelation.

My paintings act as a bridge between my personal experiences and memories with nature and the collective human experience with nature. It is this moment of connection that the paintings take on a life of their own, becoming an opportunity for viewers to recall and process their own memories, emotions, and experiences. I am thankful every day for this exchange.

-Sheila Kernan, 2024


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Casey McGlynn | Get Lost In The Art, And The Art Becomes Your Friend

Casey McGlynn | Get Lost In The Art, And The Art Becomes Your Friend
August 8-29, 2024
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin, Main Floor Gallery 
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 8th, 5-8 PM | ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE

Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin is thrilled to present Get Lost In The Art, And The Art Becomes Your Friend, the highly anticipated solo exhibition by Casey McGlynn. This new series exemplifies the power art holds to communicate one’s thoughts, feelings, and memories, allowing an artist to live on through their work. 

Artist Statement:

"I see this show as a celebration. This is a collection of work that in the most painterly way deals with mortality, legacy and the body’s place at different ages in the world. Personal life is put down on the paintings to remember." - Casey McGlynn, 2024

McGlynn’s paintings are visual composites of autobiography and collective memory, at once literal and endlessly symbolic. Highly referential images—animals, people, popular media, and textual documents—narrate scenes from the artist’s life while also prompting the viewer’s imagination through allegory and archetype. Working with a combination of techniques, McGlynn imbues this timeless visual repertoire with contemporary life: adventurous explorations of colour, humour, and satire are delivered.

McGlynn graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1997 and has exhibited throughout Canada and the United States. McGlynn’s works can be found in many private and public collections in both Canada and the US. Most recently, his work was acquired for the HBC Global Art Collection in New York.

The artist has selected a song to accompany the exhibition, please click here to listen while you browse the collection. Performed by Thom Gill, lyrics by Ryan Driver.

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Nicole Katsuras | The Gentle Ground


Nicole Katsuras | The Gentle Ground
July 13-27, 2024
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday July 13, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents The Gentle Ground, a new solo exhibition by Nicole Katsuras. In this new series, the artist utilizes her signature free-flowing extruded paint application to create spaces of lightness and grounding in which to contemplate the present moment. These lyrical abstractions are the artist's floating worlds, inspired by the definition of Japanese Ukiyo-e.


Artist's Statement:

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
-Abraham Maslow

In this new body of work, I hope to plant new seeds and flowers for new growth, positive energy and new beginnings.

Today, life is filled with never ending to-do-lists and always being “on the go”. It is easy to forget and appreciate the present, no matter how chaotic or simple it may be. These oil paintings are like a Zen garden: places of contemplation, moving sites of reflection and moments of renewal — filled with recurring motifs of maps, floating islands and land forms. Tendrils of extruded oil paint are like pathways to interconnect and ground you to the here and now, allowing yourself to be present and mindful, even at an intersection of activity. To just gently observe and appreciate the moment and the “now” can be liberating, energizing and restorative. These paintings are as much for me as they are for the viewer — the colours and textures of creating pull us into the moment. Embracing and allowing yourself to let go in these moments, I find, is so beneficial.

I have started to experiment with some gouache on small panels - a sort of meditative, simple, repetitive exercise, tiny strokes of colour within organic line forms. I have always done small sketches to map out my compositions within small boxes and rectangles - there is a similar structure with my line work but simpler and more stylized.

– Nicole Katsuras, 2024


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Mel Gausden | Future Museums

Mel Gausden | Future Museums
July 11-31, 2024
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin, Main Floor Gallery 
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 11th, 5-8 PM | ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE 

Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin is thrilled to announce the captivating new solo exhibition Future Museums by Ontario-based artist, Mel Gausden. With this new collection, the artist commemorates the treasured natural environments of her life - now forever changed by climate disasters and human destruction. Through the artist's vibrant oil paintings of the Canadian landscape at dawn and dusk, Gausden poses the question: Are we at the point of no return to save these precious environments? Or is it a slow beginning with the potential to create real change that mitigates the climate crisis?

Artist Statement:

“This series of paintings is a record of and ode to the forests and lakes that have played a major role in my life. Unfortunately, most of these places have already undergone significant changes, and some have disappeared altogether due to disasters such as wildfires, emerald ash borer, oak wilt, and urban sprawl. These paintings celebrate the fact that the forests were here; they were lyrical and wild and deserved much more respect than we gave them.

Compositionally, the paintings are set in the middle of the forest, surrounded by trees. This is an acknowledgment of the direct relationship we have with the ecosystem. There’s no longer a facade that we are apart from the consequences of climate change. No one gets to stand back on a vista and look on from afar. For all of these pieces, I chose to paint using early morning light or evening light. This is a metaphor for the state of the environment. It asks; are we at the end? Has corporate greed and inertia condemned the climate? Or is it a slow beginning where we create real change that mitigates the climate crisis? I hope it’s the latter, but if not, I’m grateful for being able to connect and learn from the forests while they were still here.” 

Mel Gausden obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2009. In 2016, she received a grant from the Georgian Bay Land Trust. Her artwork has been published in Where Vancouver Magazine and Create! Magazine. She is represented by Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto and Vancouver.

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Ted Fullerton | Stoned: Selected Stone Lithographs by Ted Fullerton

Ted Fullerton | Stoned: Selected Stone Lithographs by Ted Fullerton
July 11-31, 2024
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin, Upper Floor Gallery 
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 11th, 5-8 PM | ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE 

Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin is thrilled to announce the profound new solo exhibition Stoned: Selected Stone Lithographs by Ted Fullerton by award-winning artist, Ted Fullerton. In this new series, the artist addresses the art-form of Printmaking as one of the most misunderstood mediums. Fullerton reflects on his own practice and involvement in Printmaking to unveil the magic of the ritualistic creation process and the uniqueness of each finished piece.

Artist Statement:

"Printmaking: A Ritual within process - Reflecting on the art-form of Printmaking.
Ritual: A ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.

Within the breadth of art mediums, the art-form of Printmaking is one of the most misunderstood, or should I say misinterpreted. It would be fair to say, in most cases, it is with the notion of a multiple image, which is falsely aligned with the process of commercial reproduction. One only needs to consider significant artists that have dedicated themselves to the medium, such as Kiki Smith, Rita Letendre, Jeannie Thib, Otis Tamasauskas, David Blackwood, Stu Oxley, Frederick Hagan, Edvard Munch, Mimmo Paladino, Helen Frankenthaler, Kathe Kollwitz, George Baselitz – among many others - to understand the uniqueness of what this art-form brings to artistic self-expression.

Reflecting on my own passionate involvement for, and with this medium, has allowed me to consider why expressing myself in Printmaking - specifically Stone Lithography - has been a long-lasting commitment since my formative years at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) during the 1970’s.

Within my first year at the OCA, I was introduced to this medium by the Head of Printmaking, Frederick Hagan, who I subsequently came to consider a mentor and a lifelong friend. Prior to attending Hagan’s first class, I was not aware of the art-form as a creative and expressive medium. However, after viewing a portfolio of very diverse artists and their work within the medium that he presented, I was immediately “hooked”.

Although I have worked in different mediums under the umbrella of printmaking since those early days, stone lithography has been my central passion over the subsequent 45 years of my art practice. I could go into length about the experience of drawing on stone, its unique visual aesthetic - and the process in realizing the limited edition - but let me say it is “extraordinary” for me. The materials and process’s “seductive nature" naturally invite my attraction to the symbolic image making that are sourced and coalesce from a place of merging associations.

To address the “elephant in the room”: what makes the art of printmaking different from reproduction, as they are both realized as a multiple image? Reproduction is a photo mechanical process where each image is reproduced exactly as the previous one in an unlimited number and mainly geared for commercial enterprise. However, the art of Printmaking allows for multiples of an image from a matrix created directly from the artist’s involvement or hand, followed by a repetitive - “ritualistic” - process of creation (hand-printing). Although the intent, in most cases, is to produce a limited edition of prints that are similar, this hand-made process renders each work slightly different by its own nature.

Ultimately, as an artist, I express myself in several different mediums - drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. That said, each of these approaches develops from the basis of drawing. Drawing is the “soul” source of my visual expression, and I quickly realized all those years ago at OCA that printmaking offered a “differing” way of drawing, while using diverse - and sometimes unconventional - means, surfaces, and tools.

The process of creating and realizing unique, multiple images within the medium has become “ritualistic” in process, and a frame of mind - an essential aspect of creation for me.

Philosopher - Friedrich Schleiermacher
To read a text is a discourse between the interpreter and the text itself, but the text is at the same time a construction between the internal thoughts of the author and the language he (they) has used for it."

Ted Fullerton works in contemporary painting, printmaking and sculpture, and has achieved numerous awards including the Juror's Award in the CIM Centennial Art Competition and the Boston Printmaker's Juried Exhibition award. His notable commissions include sculptures for the City of Kitchener and the Davenport Architectural Corp. Ted Fullerton graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1976. In 1993 and 1994, he was artist-in-residence at Cape Dorset and at Canadore College in North Bay.

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Steven Nederveen | The Universe Dreams With Us

Steven Nederveen | The Universe Dreams With Us
June 6-27, 2024
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin, Upper Floor Gallery 
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8th, 3-5 PM | ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE 

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present The Universe Dreams With Us, the enchanting new solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist, Steven Nederveen. In this newest series, the artist transports the viewer to a dreamlike world that inspires us to connect with nature and the universe. By using his hallmark techniques, the artist develops a magical realism that insists on new perspectives on the landscape genre.

Artist Statement:

“This body of work brings us into a liminal space between the vastness of our ocean and the timeless power of the sublime. A dreamlike world, connecting nature and the ethereal realm. The Universe Dreams With Us brings out a world of colours and warm glows to give us a more personal and compassionate version of the universe, one that is in union with us. 

I intentionally draw from the Abstract Expressionists in this work to use similar signifiers like Mark Rothko’s framing of colour blocks and Barnett Neuman’s ‘zip’ lines. Both artists were interested in the transcendent experience as well.” 

Steven Nederveen's work is featured internationally in galleries, art fairs and magazines, and is part of private and public collections including Air Canada, the House of Armani, and the Canadian embassy in Iceland. He studied fine art at Medicine Hat College and went on to receive a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta in 1995. His studio is currently based in Toronto.

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Janna Watson | Speaking In Tongues

Janna Watson | Speaking In Tongues 
June 6-27, 2024
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin, Main Floor Gallery 
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 8th, 3-5 PM | ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present Speaking In Tongues, the alluring new solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist, Janna Watson. In this newest body of work, the artist explores the artform of language and the ways in which it can manifest outside of us. For Watson, this is the abstract language of painting that is used to communicate self discovery, emotion, and thought without speaking a word. 

“’Language is not a tool we have, it is a shapeshifter, a being that lives with us, walks and talks with us and has its own business and intentions.’ - Anne Carson

Part of the exhilaration I acquire from painting is being able to see shifts within myself manifested into a physical reality. The most truthful form of expression I have found in my life this far has been the abstract language of painting.  Self discovery is fluid and when I am painting I can see worlds within myself taking shape across their varied surfaces. When the act of looking creates optical overload the viewer is led back to the concrete realities of colour, pigment and the relief of negative space. Fields of watery pigment-stained panels have been created as open-ended experiments that unify the unfinished process of creation. The paintings speak on their own emotional terms that evade logic and invite limitless interpretations.

Raised in the 80s in a rural area without internet or tv, I had little exposure to foreign languages. My father was a Pentecostal pastor and my earliest memory of a “foreign” language was the speaking of tongues. I was taught that praying in tongues was a way to bypass the mind and communicate a divinely inspired language with an utterance of the spirit. This early understanding of using language to bypass words has been deeply imprinted on me and it has since manifested itself in new ways, influencing my abstract expression.”

Watson’s paintings circulate regularly at international fairs, including the Toronto International Art Fair, CONTEXT Art Miami, and in Seattle, where they were featured by Artsy in its list of “10 Works to Collect at the Seattle Art Fair.” Watson’s work has been covered by publications such as The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, NOW Magazine, and House & Home.

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Cori Creed | The Story and The Telling


Cori Creed | The Story and The Telling
June 8-22, 2024
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday, June 8, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents a new solo exhibition by established BC landscape painter Cori Creed. In her signature energetic style, the artist continues to pay tribute to the untamed beauty of the landscape of British Columbia, capturing its richness and diversity. Creed aims to encapsulate the literal and metaphorical non-linear journey of traversing both these landscapes and life. 


Artist's Statement:

This body of work, more than any, has made it evident just how looping the path can be. Retracing and pushing out in different directions, moving forward and then retreating - sometimes a jubilant exploration and sometimes a battle. My work continues to be a translation of an experience, in this case of our landscape - forests, mountains and coastlines. A balance between representation and mark making, the story and the telling. I have always considered how our own filters show us each a unique perspective of the world, but while painting this show I have also been very aware of how much outside events and forces impact and alter our own outpourings. The wind fills and empties our sails and we find a way to keep moving. With many of these pieces I found it necessary to ease off my search for more abstraction, and instead of chasing the essential forms, pick up my smaller brushes and pull details out of the washes and staining in the underpainting. Questing for the mediation found in the memories made while moving through our ancient places. 

- Cori Creed 2024

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Vicki Smith | Flora and Fauna

Vicki Smith | Flora and Fauna 
May 9-30, 2024
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 3-5 PM | ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE

Bau-Xi Gallery presents Flora and Fauna, the highly anticipated solo exhibition by Toronto-based painter, Vicki Smith. In this new collection, Smith creates a conversation between her signature figures and stunning new landscape paintings. The artist explores the before or after the figure comes and goes, gently breaking the reflections in the water, then stillness returns and reflects nature in an indirect way.

Artist Statement:

"Flora and Fauna is a series of paintings about the female form and the temporal interplay of light and energy within reflections of the natural environment.

As a sequel to my previous work, this collection elaborates on and extends the experience of peace by pairing swimmers with images of quiet reflected landscapes. Throughout this body of work, the swimmers gently break the surface of the water, scattering the reflections which in turn distort and dissolve the body. Boundaries merge and mingle in a momentary exchange. Much like the practice of meditation, the swimmers revel in an experience that circumvents conscious thought and the complimentary images of reflective landscape nudge us back to a place of stillness and quiet focus. As always, my paintings are in pursuit of a calm and peaceful space."

Vicki Smith's artwork is included in countless private and public collections across North America and Europe. Smith studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art. She lives and works in Toronto.

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Group Exhibition | A Light Exists In Spring


Group Exhibition | A Light Exists In Spring
May 11-25, 2024
Main Level
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday May 11, 2-4pm

Taking inspiration from the famed poet Emily Dickinson, Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents A Light Exists in Spring, a group exhibition featuring new thematic compositions replete with the vibrance and optimism of the season. Dickinson's poem by the same title sings the praises of springtime's light and colour in words; artists Erin Armstrong, David Alexander, Vicky Christou, Cori Creed, Katrin Korfmann and Isabelle Menin each offer their unique perspectives and relationships with colour and form which evoke spring's characteristic energy of new life. 

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Kathryn Macnaughton | Impulsive Impressions

Kathryn Macnaughton | Impulsive Impressions 
May 9-30, 2024
Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11, 3-5 PM | ARTIST IN ATTENDANCE 

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present Impulsive Impressions, the captivating new solo exhibition by Toronto-born, Lisbon-based painter, Kathryn Macnaughton. 

Artist Statement:

"Impulsive Impressions, an exploration where colour, movement, and form collide. Each painting is a journey into spontaneity, blending organic shapes into rhythmic patterns while embracing gesturalism and improvisation. 

The process is a delicate balance, requiring unwavering trust in intuition and a willingness to embrace failure. With each pour of paint, I navigate a terrain of uncertainty, knowing precisely when to halt or push the boundaries further, teetering on the edge of no return. I am constantly acting and thinking, with no predefined image in mind, only open-ended possibilities. 

The scale of the canvas mirrors the embrace of the body, yet animates it with an intensity that demands physical interaction. Painting allows me to turn thoughts into action, expressing emotions in a direct and powerful way. Each piece is a reflection of my unique perspective, a blend of chaos and calm, capturing the essence of existence."

Macnaughton has exhibited in both Canada and abroad since 2010. Recent collaborations include Kit and Ace, Collective Arts Brewery, and The Gardiner Museum, Toronto.

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