Eric Louie | Emergence
Eric Louie | Emergence
January 11 - 25, 2020
340 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 11th, 4-5 pm, Artist in Attendance
Vancouver-based painter Eric Louie’s solo exhibition Emergence, at Bau-Xi Toronto, focuses on his ongoing exploration of the interplay of forms in states of transition.
The artist’s distinct future-forward aesthetic and formalist sensibility informs the richly layered virtual worlds of his paintings—rife with colourful shapes, shaded with brightly-hued gradients and accented with chrome-like effects to reinforce a palpable materiality. Louie's forms are at once static and in perpetual motion, synthetic-looking yet singularly organic, imbuing the flatness of the two-dimensional surface with emphatic dimensionality.
These precariously balanced assemblages are charged with dynamic tension and visual potential — evidence of the artist's deft hand as he skillfully manipulates the quality of light and spatial depth within his canvasses to enthralling effect. Ever-present semblances of the familiar, figments of still-lifes, traces of figures and approximations of landscapes emerge from Louie’s evocative compositions as they resist interpretation and beckon the viewer towards abstraction.