{"title":"Gallery Artists | States of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eMay 7 - June 1, 2026\u003cbr\u003eBau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin\u003cbr\u003e1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto | Upper Gallery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis May, Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin is pleased to present \u003cem\u003eStates of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, a group exhibition featuring works by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/collections\/erin-armstrong\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eErin Armstrong\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/collections\/barbara-cole\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBarbara Cole\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/collections\/darlene-cole\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDarlene Cole\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/collections\/robert-marchessault\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRobert Marchessault\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/collections\/steven-nederveen\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSteven Nederveen\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bau-xi.com\/collections\/ian-stone\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIan Stone\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlants and animals have long occupied a central role in the history of painting, symbolizing cycles of life, decay, beauty, and power. In this exhibition, such traditions are both honored and unsettled. Some artists work with close botanical precision, rendering petals, leaves, fur, and feather with an almost archival sensitivity. Others dissolve these forms into something less representational, where color, gesture, and texture evoke the rhythms and energies of living systems rather than their exact appearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross diverse styles and approaches, these artists engage with the natural world not merely as subject matter, but as a site of inquiry—one that reflects broader questions of coexistence, transformation, and awareness.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"17272-idyll-from-two-people","title":"Idyll, from Two People - Available in 4 sizes","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBarbara Cole is an award-winning Canadian fine art photographer celebrated for her ethereal, painterly imagery and timeless visual language that blur the boundaries between photography, painting, and sculpture. Her distinctive style often featuring submerged figures, flowing fabrics, and soft, diffused light evokes themes of transformation, memory, and the natural world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased in Toronto, Cole has built an international reputation through decades of acclaimed work in fine art. Her large-scale installations and commissions include prominent public spaces such as the atrium of the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital, where her immersive imagery enhances architectural environments with a sense of calm and reflection. Her renowned Underworld series has been exhibited globally, including at Canadian Embassies in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., further solidifying her presence on the international stage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCole’s practice has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Grand Prize at the Festival International de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes and honors at the International Photography Awards in New York. Her work has also been featured in the documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II, highlighting her unique creative process and influence within the field of contemporary photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollected by major institutions and private collectors worldwide, Barbara Cole’s photographs offer a rare combination of technical mastery and emotional resonance. 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This endeavour began 20 years ago, capturing whimsical English garden scenes with her Polaroid SX-70 film, ultimately storing them until she could fully realize the project. These images would later become the backdrops for her figures who “float between history’s layers with confidence and mystery”. Through this explorative process, Cole’s documentation results in a series truly fantastical in both history and conception.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBarbara Cole is an award-winning Canadian fine art photographer celebrated for her ethereal, painterly imagery and timeless visual language that blur the boundaries between photography, painting, and sculpture. Her distinctive style often featuring submerged figures, flowing fabrics, and soft, diffused light evokes themes of transformation, memory, and the natural world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased in Toronto, Cole has built an international reputation through decades of acclaimed work in fine art. Her large-scale installations and commissions include prominent public spaces such as the atrium of the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital, where her immersive imagery enhances architectural environments with a sense of calm and reflection. Her renowned Underworld series has been exhibited globally, including at Canadian Embassies in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., further solidifying her presence on the international stage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCole’s practice has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Grand Prize at the Festival International de la Photographie de Mode in Cannes and honors at the International Photography Awards in New York. Her work has also been featured in the documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II, highlighting her unique creative process and influence within the field of contemporary photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollected by major institutions and private collectors worldwide, Barbara Cole’s photographs offer a rare combination of technical mastery and emotional resonance. 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The exploration of transformation, nature, and beauty is marked by Cole’s delicate use of water as a medium that naturally reshapes form. This series embodies a timeless sensibility that further expands Cole’s prolific body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBarbara Cole is an award-winning Canadian fine art photographer celebrated for her ethereal, painterly imagery and timeless visual language that blur the boundaries between photography, painting, and sculpture. Her distinctive style often featuring submerged figures, flowing fabrics, and soft, diffused light evokes themes of transformation, memory, and the natural world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased in Toronto, Cole has built an international reputation through decades of acclaimed work in fine art. Her large-scale installations and commissions include prominent public spaces such as the atrium of the M. 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I wanted them to have a burst of biological organic energy, with the kind of impact that the vertical gardens gave me.\" - Robert Marchessault, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"1171\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-----\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Marchessault (b. 1952) is a Canadian contemporary painter celebrated for his atmospheric landscape works that explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of nature. Marchessault has built a distinguished career spanning over four decades, developing a refined visual language that bridges representation and abstraction through meditative depictions of trees and open landscapes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis signature trees, at once solitary and communal, carry a quiet psychological depth, often described as reflections of the human condition. 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Each painting unfolds slowly, revealing a poetic balance between structure and atmosphere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWidely exhibited and collected across North America, Robert Marchessault’s work represents a timeless and sophisticated acquisition for collectors seeking contemporary landscape painting with enduring emotional resonance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"836\" data-end=\"1171\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Marchessault","offers":[{"title":"60 X 36 in.","offer_id":47671522230530,"sku":"29829","price":12900.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/5944\/files\/29829.jpg?v=1776536416"},{"product_id":"mur-vivant-iv-29843","title":"Mur Vivant IV","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"444\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eRobert Marchessault’s \u003cem data-end=\"35\" data-start=\"22\"\u003eMur Vivants\u003c\/em\u003e (“Living Walls”) series marks a renewed direction in his studio practice, translating the vitality of botanical environments into immersive painted form. Inspired by a three-week stay in France, where he encountered the pioneering vertical gardens of botanist Patrick Blanc, Marchessault developed a response that is not imitative but interpretive-seeking to evoke the same emotional resonance through paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"834\" data-start=\"446\"\u003eMarchessault invents intricate foliage patterns and textures that fill the canvas edge to edge. The compositions are dense and enveloping, drawing the viewer into a close, almost tactile encounter with layered greenery. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-is-only-node=\"\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-end=\"1171\" data-start=\"836\"\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eBuilding on trial and error I began establishing a method that allowed me to compose my images, creating textures, movement and colours that reflected what I felt without being too photographic. The paintings needed to be about themselves not illustrations of Blanc's installations. I wanted them to have a burst of biological organic energy, with the kind of impact that the vertical gardens gave me.\" - Robert Marchessault, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-is-only-node=\"\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-end=\"1171\" data-start=\"836\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-----\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRobert Marchessault (b. 1952) is a Canadian contemporary painter celebrated for his atmospheric landscape works that explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of nature. Marchessault has built a distinguished career spanning over four decades, developing a refined visual language that bridges representation and abstraction through meditative depictions of trees and open landscapes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis signature trees, at once solitary and communal, carry a quiet psychological depth, often described as reflections of the human condition. These forms bend, dissolve, and reassemble across the canvas, evoking both resilience and fragility while inviting a deeper awareness of our relationship to nature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMarchessault’s surfaces achieve a luminous softness and spatial depth that rewards prolonged viewing. 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