Exhibitions

HER | Group Exhibition
August 10-24, 2019
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 10, 2019, 2-4 PM

Her brings together and celebrates the works of four women artists, comprised of two painters and two photographers, who have each become recognized for their respective representations of the female form.
 
Painter Darlene Cole’s lyrical and poetic renditions of solitary figures or small gathering of females in various stages of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood evoke a sense of memory or fleeting experience. The paintings for Her depict figures immersed in an intimate moment.

In her Falling Through Time series, photographer Barbara Cole emphasizes dynamism and power of the female form in movement and a seamless catapulting back and forth between future and past self in time and technique.
In Barbara Cole’s Meditation series, a restrained atmosphere of stillness and contemplation pervades.
 
Like Barbara Cole, painter Vicki Smith also concentrates on the female form as it moves through water. Her swimmers evoke a feeling of freedom and expansiveness and a possibility for transformation as they calmly float or swim in lakes and swimming pools.
 
Photographer Virginia Mak’s soft-focus images from her Composed Series in this exhibition pay homage to the creative women in her life while her Stillness series turns a more inward gaze towards self-reflection and growth.
 
The exhibition seeks to provide ‘a room of one’s own’ to highlight the multiplicity of views on the female form by four strong female artists.

Emerging Now: Selected Works from the OCADU Drawing and Painting Class of 2019
July 13-27, 2019
340 Dundas Street W, Toronto, Upper Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 2-4 PM 

Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto is located in one of the most energetic artistic neighbourhoods in the city, in part because of its close proximity to the esteemed OCAD University. For the month of July, a selection of works by recent OCADU graduates from the Drawing and Painting class of 2019 will be featured in our Upper Gallery. We are thrilled to have this emerging talent participate in our summer programme.

Featured Works: 

Ahlena Sultana-McGarry, The Red-Eye of June, Digital Collage Printed on Cold Pressed Natural Paper, 30 x 24 inches, 2019, $1,500 CAD

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Ahlena Sultana-McGarry, Dreaming of Tiger Spring, Digital Collage Printed on Cold Pressed Natural Paper, 24 x 30 inches, 2019, $1,500 CAD

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Alexandra Marcuzzi, Body Fragments Part III - Rose, Collage in Resin on Oil Panel, 12 x 12 inches, 2019, $600 CAD

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 Alexandra Marcuzzi, Body Fragments Part III - Plum, Collage in Resin on Oil Panel, 12 x 12 inches, 2019, $600 CAD

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Alexandra Marcuzzi, Fragmentation III, Charcoal on Illustration Board, 30 x 40 inches, 2019, $1,950 CAD

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Desiree Nechacov, Superposition I, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 36 inches, 2019, $2,950 CAD

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Desiree Nechacov, Superposition II, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 36 inches, 2019, $2,950 CAD

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Donny Nie, Hollandaise, Oil on Wood Panel, 72 x 48 inches, 2019, $3,450 CAD - SOLD

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Donny Nie, Rose Honey, Oil on Wood Panel, 72 x 48 inches, 2019, $3,450 CAD - SOLD

Mashayla Ritchie, Mouth Full of Gum, Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte, Acrylic Marker, and Oil Pastel on Canvas, 48 x 48 inches, 2019, $2,950 CAD

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Mikayla Lacey, in hopes of peeling back the skin, Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas, 68 x 56 inches, 2019, $3,750 CAD

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Nikola Sakell, Like the calmness of waves as they take their turn weaving back and forth between the khaki shallows and indigo depths, as blood skies and amethyst clouds become monstrous on the horizon, Acrylic on Canvas, 78 x 96 inches, 2019, $4,950 CAD - SOLD

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David T. Alexander | Small Works
July 1 - August 24, 2019
350 Dundas Street W, Toronto

Bau-Xi is pleased to present a gallery feature of David T. Alexander's Small Works, a new collection of intimate, small-scale landscapes. 

Throughout his fifty-year career, David Alexander has been known to paint works ranging from incredibly large-scale to those only mere inches wide. While his large paintings are undoubtedly powerful, Alexander's mastery of paint is equally evident in his small works. The pieces burst with intensity and drama, managing to possess an incredible amount of visual information despite their small size. These works prove that it is not scale that envelops a viewer into a scene, but rather a true understanding and honest portrayal of a subject by a skilled artist.

Through exploration and intimate study, Alexander’s lyrical work transcends the specificity of location and manifests as something new and entirely his own. Part refinement, part embellishment, the interactions occurring in his paintings make them an event rather than strictly a landscape. The final piece, even in intimate scale, beautifully expresses the drama of the subject Alexander explored. 

Bau-Xi is excited to announce the launch of a book dedicated to David T. Alexander's Small Works. Purchase the book here. 

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Vicky Christou | Duality
July 13-27, 2019
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 2019, 2-4 PM 

Vicky Christou’s abstract grid paintings are inspired by the dualistic and eternal processes found within oceanic waves, densely forested landscapes and expansive changing skies.

Her meditative, ritualistic application of paint depicts a physical record of time, resulting in the experience of an encompassing peaceful stillness. Christou often uses a minimal color palette, adding to the sculptural effect of her grid paintings.  Her more colorful works often become directional, dependant on where the veiwer is standing, offering a playful interactive optical element.

Christou has expanded her accumulative impasto line painting technique, to include brushwork and washes.  She continues her focused exploration of paint materiality with a foundational reference to textiles. 

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Kathryn Macnaughton | MOVED
July 13-27, 2019
340 Dundas Street W, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 13, 2-4 PM 

Bau-Xi Gallery in Toronto is pleased to be exhibiting Moved, the latest series of abstract works by painter Kathryn Macnaughton. “Moved” describes a state both physical and emotional; a concept that resonates with the artist in a period of literal and symbolic transition in her life and career.

Macnaughton’s paintings are equally full of movement – manifested with the layering of undulating abstract forms over a base layer of organic loose washes. This marrying of two distinct techniques results in exhilarating canvases of contradiction: at once contemporary and timeless, flat and sculptural, compiled and uniform, static and unmistakably alive.

A graduate of OCAD, Macnaughton has exhibited in both Canada and abroad since 2010.

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Jamie Evrard | Of Innocence and Experience
June 1-15, 2019
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 2019, 2-4 PM 

Of Innocence and Experience — the latest exhibition by floral painter Jamie Evrard — adopts its title from the collected poems of William Blake. Like Blake, Evrard's stylistic language is distinctly one of powerful and concise lyricism. The contrary states of "innocence" and "experience" named in Blake's famed work speaks to both the artist's process as well as to the physical qualities and changing nature of her floral subject.

Speaking on her practice, the artist describes the daily undertaking of painting and the ways in which her compositions, rife with diaphanous brushwork, delicate accents, and high colour washes, come together:

Oftentimes, Evrard’s works are hard-won marvels — borne of five-o’clock starts, flipped canvasses and painted over false starts — which gradually transform into richly layered records of the time spent in her studio and visual testaments to the artist’s creative experience.

On rarer occasion, by her own admission, Evrard’s approach towards the blank canvas takes on a guileless openness and intuitive certainty, which manifests in striking directness, unencumbered looseness, and warm familiarity in the artist’s handling of the oil medium.

As Evrard embraces her concurrent approaches to painting, so too does she insist on the varied forms of her subject matter, rejecting the pristine beauty of perfect blooms in favor of tentative buds, bruised petals, and overblown blossoms,  in a dedicated exploration and fervent celebration of innocence and experience.

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Cori Creed | Switchbacks
June 1-15, 2019
340 Dundas Street W, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 2019, 2-4 PM 

Bau-Xi Gallery is excited to present a new collection of works by Cori Creed, an established Canadian painter who captures the wealth of texture and colour in the Canadian scenery with joy and vitality. As referenced by the show’s title, Switchbacks, Creed’s current practice oscillates between abstraction and representation, story and storytelling, as well as depth and surface.

Creed aims to disrupt illusion with reminders of the artist’s hand and paint itself. Ultimately, the viewer is allowed to be continually aware of both the surface and the process. Creed’s exploratory mark-making delights in its variety; thick and thin, slow and fast, dry and wet brush, and reflects the artist’s keen interest in the language of paint.

Creed was born in Vancouver and studied Fine Art at Simon Fraser University, and Design at Capilano College. Creed's work has been placed in various private and corporate collections across Canada. She has been represented by Bau-Xi Gallery since 2011, and currently lives and works in West Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Kim Keever | Gallery Feature
June 1-15, 2019
350 Dundas Street W, Toronto
Opening reception: Saturday, June 1, 2019, 2-4pm

This June, Bau-Xi Photo is pleased to show the selected works of Kim Keever, the newest addition to our roster of photographers. Keever is an internationally acclaimed artist based in New York, known for his colourful large-scale abstractions, which he creates by pouring paint into a 200-gallon tank of water in his studio.  Keever uses his large-format digital camera to capture the resulting clouds of colour as they swirl into different forms and diffuse themselves through the water.

About the artist: in the mid-1970s, Keever changed career paths, switching from working as a thermal engineer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to fulltime artist. His previous vocation continues to inform his work today, lending scientific methodology and investigative process to his artistic process.

Kim Keever’s work has been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His work has been widely collected, and can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Bank of America; Harvard Library; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.

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