Sheri Paisley awarded tenth annual Takao Tanabe Prize

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to announce that artist Sheri Paisley has been selected as the mid-career artist winner of the tenth annual Takao Tanabe Prize. Paisley shares this year's Tanabe prize with the emerging artist winner, Niitsitapi (member of Kainai First Nation) Dené artist Lauren Crazybull.

Sheri Paisley, The Distance. Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches.

The Tanabe Prize, named for reknowned and celebrated BC painter Takao Tanabe, is an annual award given to artists whose primary medium is painting and who are residents of British Columbia. Artists are selected for the Tanabe Prize by contemporary art curators who are connected to art museums and galleries in British Columbia.

Selection is based on exceptional creativity coupled with a promise of future achievements. Names of the selectors are kept confidential. There is no application process for either the curators or artists. The Tanabe Prize for BC Painters is administered by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. 

Says Paisley: "I am deeply honoured to receive an award bearing the name of Takao Tanabe, an artist whose work I hold in the highest regard within the history of contemporary painting. His disciplined, contemplative approach to landscape has been a lasting influence on how I understand painting as a way of seeing and being in the world."

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