Exhibitions

Cori Creed | Stratum

Cori Creed | Stratum
December 6 - 22, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 6, 2-4pm
Artist In Attendance

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Stratum, the new solo exhibition by established BC landscape painter Cori Creed. Built through layered gestures in oil and acrylic, these new works offer a compelling interplay between abstraction and representation while revealing traces of their own making. Creed continues to champion British Columbia’s wild coast, capturing the essence of its atmospheric forest and ocean vistas with bold mark-making, unexpected colour and graphic lines.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In Stratum, I have been very aware of the negotiations that take place within each painting - the push and pull between what is revealed and what is concealed. Working in both oil and acrylic on canvas, each piece is constructed through successive layers, allowing the surface to carry the history of decisions made and unmade. Every brushstroke becomes part of a shifting geology: some marks are buried, others rise to the surface, forming a visual record of searching, editing, and discovery.

As with my previous work, these landscapes are less literal depictions and more of a capturing of the essence of a place. Being drawn to both representation and abstraction, my challenge is to layer information so that it creates a sense of physical space and also satisfies my desire to record the feeling of the landscape, all while keeping the piece open enough for the marks and pigment to tell their own story.

The tension between covering and preserving mirrors the way memory itself works, layering moments until clarity emerges. In the final piece, the visible strata hold the remnants of earlier ideas, and an invitation for viewers to move between the scene and the surface.

- Cori Creed 2025

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GEORGE BYRNE | SYNTHETICA
UPPER GALLERY
NOVEMBER 8-26, 2025
Opening Reception: Sat. November 8, 2-4 pm
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver

Bau-Xi Vancouver is thrilled to present Synthetica, the latest solo exhibition from acclaimed photographic artist George Byrne for its inaugural showing in Vancouver, following its Toronto debut in July 2025 at Bau-Xi Dufferin.

Fusing analogue photography with digital innovation to reimagine the American landscape, Synthetica is rooted in Byrne’s early influences from the New Topographics movement and marks a striking evolution in his practice. Where once he documented, he now deconstructs and rebuilds - layering, subtracting, and collaging until a new reality emerges. The result is a collection of surreal yet grounded dreamscapes, where the ordinary is elevated and the boundaries between the natural and the artificial dissolve. From Daytona Beach to Yellowstone, Synthetica is both a visual journey and a conceptual inquiry, exploring the way we perceive, manipulate, and emotionally respond to our environments in a hyper-mediated, AI-inflected age.

Artist Statement:

This series explores the tension between the natural and the artificial, challenging preconceptions of reality in an increasingly digital age, while also paying homage to my analogue photographic roots. Starting out as an artist, I was very much a student of the New Topographics photographic movement, a style based on the artist's neutral eye, famous for documenting the mundane structures of post-war America. About 5 years ago, I started to become interested in employing various forms of manipulation and digital reconstruction into the work I was making. As a result, the images were able to become more expressive and introspective: a bridge between my subconscious and conscious.

Each image in the Synthetica series started as a medium format film photograph, then, through a process of addition, subtraction, collage and endless reevaluation, a new completed image is born. The foundations of a lot of the images in this series were taken over the last few years during road trips I took around the United States. From Daytona Beach to Yellowstone National Park, these were both natural and man-made landscapes - places I'd never been.

– George Byrne, 2025

On Synthetica's inaugural showing in Vancouver:

I’m really excited about the opportunity to show this body of work at the beautiful Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver. Synthetica is a pivotal series for me because it crystallises a decade of living and working in Los Angeles. It’s where my process of reassembling fragments of the urban environment found its fullest expression, fusing photography with a painterly sense of rhythm and colour, and pushing the work into a more mysterious, emotionally charged space.

What I hope people take from it is a pause, a chance to re-see the familiar city in a new way, to feel the rhythm, colour and stillness within it. For me the work is about finding a kind of beauty and mystery in the overlooked, calm in chaos. I’d love for viewers in Vancouver to tune into that frequency too.

-George Byrne, 2025

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ERIC LOUIE | WE STILL HAVE TIME
MAIN LEVEL GALLERY
NOVEMBER 8 -26, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 8, 2-4pm
Artist In Attendance

Bau-Xi Gallery proudly presents We Still Have Time, the new solo exhibition by Vancouver-based abstract painter Eric Louie. In his latest body of work, Louie continues his exploration of transformation and possibility through intricately layered abstract compositions featuring his iconic metallic foil-like effect. His dynamic interplay of colour, light, and sculptural form reflects a search for balance in an era marked by uncertainty, offering visions of renewal and hope. Thoughtful and immersive, We Still Have Time invites viewers to pause within the turbulence of the present moment and consider the enduring potential for change.

Artist Statement:

I’m always searching for answers to the deeper questions. Faced with an alarming world, I seek comfort in the process of making art, and also in the final works, which offer alternate visions of what could be. It often feels like at any moment things could explode into chaos: climate change, political upheaval, war, unrest… there’s lot of darkness, a lot of vitriol. But we still have time - we can always change course.

This collection is like a daydream of possibilities: there are no rules for how to contextualize the subjects and places depicted on the canvas. There’s fluidity in the creation of form - an interplay in the mind of the beholder and the shapes and colours, creating something new, something needed. It’s a story that wants to be told and it’s always changing. Some pieces offer monolithic sculptural formations alone in the vastness; in others, forms get absorbed into their environments, emerging and receding simultaneously.

Immersing myself in each painting, I feel as if I am shifting in and out of consciousness, stepping through portals to other worlds. Each world is a new chance to be who I want to be, to show another side, to release untapped potential, or tell a different version of the story. The longer I’m here, the more I catch myself looking for permanence in impermanent forms, but through this I eventually come to embrace the inevitability of change.

We Still Have Time speaks to our instinctive desire and drive to endure when everything is shifting around us. Ultimately, I hope these works serve as reminders to recognize what we still have, to celebrate the moments we are here on earth, and to have the courage to see beyond our perceived confines and enter into the realm of possibility.

-Eric Louie, 2025

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MEL GAUSDEN | FUTURE MUSEUMS II
UPPER GALLERY
OCTOBER 4-16, 2025
Opening Reception: Sat. October 4, 2-4 pm l Artist in Attendance
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Future Museums II, the new solo exhibition from Ontario-based artist Mel Gausden. In Future Museums II, Gausden builds upon the themes and imagery of her 2024 exhibition Future Museums which was shown at Bau-Xi Toronto.

In this poignant new collection, the artist revisits beloved locations on the west coast of British Columbia, using joyful colours and familiar forest shapes and silhouettes to reflect an intimate communion with nature. These combined elements evoke a time when the living landscape thrived, less burdened by the threats it faces today. Gausden expresses a bittersweet affection and deep respect for the landscapes - either still living or now gone - that she knows and loves, as well as an urgent plea for increased awareness of the natural world around us and the desperate need for human practices to change.

We are thrilled to welcome the artist who will be in attendance at her opening reception in Vancouver.

Artist Statement:

Future Museums is a series of landscape paintings that honours the forests and lakes that have shaped my life; many of which have already been lost or altered by wildfires, invasive species, and urban development.

Each work places the viewer inside the forest, immersed and surrounded. By eliminating the distant vantage point, I want to remind us that we are no longer separate from the effects of climate change. Painted in the soft light of dawn or dusk, these scenes ask a quiet but urgent question: are we witnessing an ending, or the beginning of change?

The title Future Museums imagines a time when the wild places I paint - forests, lakes,
ecosystems once teeming with life - may no longer exist outside of memory or archive. It
suggests a future where nature itself becomes a museum piece: preserved in images, but lost in reality. My work stands as both a tribute and a warning, a way of remembering what we still have, and what we risk losing.

Drawing from memory, emotion, photographs, and daydreams, I create composite landscapes that are both deeply personal and collectively resonant. My process begins with watercolour studies and evolves through layers of abstraction, intuition, and experimentation.

This series is a gesture of reverence, a way of saying: they were here. They were beautiful. And they mattered.

– Mel Gausden 2025

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Sheri Paisley | When You Were the Sea
October 4-16, 2025
Main Level Gallery
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 4, 2-4pm
Artist In Attendance

Bau-Xi Vancouver is proud to present When You Were the Sea, BC-based artist Sheri Paisley's new solo exhibition in which she explores the quiet power of the Pacific coast. Based on the remote haven of Ucluelet, BC, these new paintings reflect the ocean not as a subject, but as a presence: something that lives both around and within us. Drawing from the colours and textures of the region - driftwood, kelp, and shifting weather - Paisley captures the emotional undercurrents of memory, connection, and place. These richly layered atmospheric works invite viewers to slow down and consider the true depth of our interconnection with the natural world.

Artist Statement:

Most days on the West Coast, there’s a clear awareness that the ocean isn’t a separate body. Its powerful presence is both external and very much internal - a visceral reminder that the majority of our makeup is water.

When You Were the Sea is a body of work born in the often fog-thick quiet of Ucluelet, BC, where the ocean presses in from all sides and time unspools like the tide. These paintings are not literal seascapes. They are embodied emotional weather maps - impressions of the sea as it moves through ancient cellular memory, inter-relationship, and the recognition of life as interconnected energy.

I paint in layers - thin veils and gestures that accumulate like panes of glass, each holding its own version of the world. The palette is drawn from ocean-soaked driftwood, high-tide kelp, and the shifting clarity of weathered Pacific light: variations of warm and cool blues, quiet rainforest greens, and unassuming greys that hum at the edge of recognition. Each mark is an act of belonging - a way of placing myself in space.

I’m interested in what’s barely there - the space between form and feeling, water and skin, presence and loss. The paintings ask:

What parts of you are shaped by the tide?
What do you still carry that belonged to someone else?
Do we end where the sea begins?
This series offers no answers - only places to return to, like an expansive, outgoing tide after a storm.

– Sheri Paisley 2025

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Jamie Evrard artwork 'White Poppies, Dusk' available at Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver

Jamie Evrard | Paintings From an Untamed Garden
September 13-27, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13, 2-4pm
Artist In Attendance

To extend the bounty of lush summer gardens into the new season, Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Paintings from an Untamed Garden, the latest solo exhibition by established Vancouver-based floral and landscape artist Jamie Evrard. In this new body of work, Evrard captures the fleeting beauty and exuberant abundance of peak summer flora with a painterly intensity that balances spontaneity and control. Her richly layered, timeless compositions invite viewers to lose themselves in the beguiling tangle of petals and foliage as a welcome escape and sanctuary.

Artist statement:

In this new collection I have continued my explorations of gardens, flowers, and ponds in both oils and watercolours. I’ve taken inspiration from my own garden as well as gardens I’ve visited around Vancouver and in my travels, and many of the works are amalgamations of gardens I have visited. With these paintings I hope to immerse viewers in the wanton beauty of midsummer.

- Jamie Evrard, 2025

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Summer Group Exhibition | Currents
August 9-23, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 9, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver's summer group exhibition, Currents, gathers a compelling array of works from over twenty artists that delve into water’s symbolic, sensory, and environmental dimensions, inviting viewers to consider its presence as both a physical force and metaphorical agent.

From serene ponds and reflective surfaces to turbulent seas and evaporating lakes, the artworks chart water’s many moods and manifestations—placid, volatile, cleansing, and consuming. Human figures drift, dissolve, or emerge from the watery embrace of pools and lakes, evoking themes of transformation and the porous boundary between self and natural surroundings.

Other works approach water through abstraction—rippling textures, fluid motion, and chromatic shifts echo its elusive forms and rhythms. Some pieces bear witness to the effects of drought, flooding, and pollution, urging reflection on our fragile entanglement with shifting ecosystems. Urban shorelines and industrial ports are rendered with unexpected beauty, while beach scenes capture fleeting moments of joy, nostalgia, and relaxation.

Together, the works form a meditation on water’s capacity to connect, disrupt, and heal—shaping not only the landscapes we inhabit, but the inner terrains of emotion, memory, and imagination.

Currents features new works from David T. Alexander, Vicky Christou, Barbara Cole, Jamie Evrard, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Jeffrey Milstein, Anthony Redpath, Kyle Scheurmann, Vicki Smith, Janna Watson and more.

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Nicole Katsuras | Wellspring
Solo Exhibition
July 19 - August 2, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver is proud to present Wellspring, the latest solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Nicole Katsuras. This dynamic new collection draws from an abundant inner source of creative vitality - a personal reservoir of memory and emotion. Through richly textured surfaces and vibrant colour, Katsuras transforms the ephemeral into the tangible, offering lyrical interpretations of life's complexity and beauty. Her new works serve as distinctly personal expressions that reflect our shared human impulse to find meaning through the rhythms of transformation and renewal.

Artist Statement:

A wellspring is a source of abundant, continuous flow, often associated with life-giving water or inspiration. In my context, it represents the artist’s inner reservoir of creativity - an ever-renewing fountain of ideas, emotions, and insights.

The creative life of an artist is not for the faint of heart: it is a never-ending journey of experimentation and self reflection that is energized by the endless wellspring of creative thoughts. In my paintings I am working through memories and feelings of nostalgia, filtering the pangs of everyday life to transform it into something physically real and recognizable to others. This transformation illustrates the interconnectedness of art, life, and nature: my paintings are not mere representations but lyrical interpretations, where bold colours and textured surfaces pulse with the energy of existence. 'Wellspring' suggests that these inspirations are not fleeting but cyclical, continually flowing back into my work, resonating like a pulse across throughout the expanse of my oeuvre. For viewers, my new exhibition becomes an invitation to join this journey - to reflect on their own connections to land and life, and to find joy in the unexpected beauty of ever-evolving creation.

-Nicole Katsuras, 2025

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Tom Burrows | Clam
Solo Exhibition | Main Level Gallery
May 10-24, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday May 10, 2-4pm | Artist In Attendance

Tom Burrows' latest exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery is a meditation on environmental change, shaped by decades of living and harvesting clams and other shellfish along the shores of the Salish Sea. In his new series, Clam, Burrows reflects on the quiet disappearance of the clam beds he once relied on, drawing a connection between personal loss and the broader impact of ocean acidification. The series of cast polymer resin sculptures produced for the exhibition stand as both elegy and witness—artifacts of a vanishing intertidal world.

Artist Statement:

“There’s an adage on the Northwest Coast: “When the tide is out, the table is set.”

I had been harvesting clams from the same intertidal gravel beach within walking distance of my island studio for over five decades. The area remained productive through various harvesting intensities from myself and other islanders until three years ago, when I found it was taking me twice the amount of time to gather the same number of clams. Two years ago, the clam raking took longer still. Last year, I tried once and realized soon there would be nothing to return to.

The increasing acidification of the Salish Sea resulting from historically high levels of atmospheric CO2 is dissolving the shells of juvenile clams.

Even in the lean times, I could depend on a meal of linguine alle vongole in which a pot of clams is steamed in their shells drizzled with oil and garlic. Once the clams open, their briny sweetness spills from their shells and the pot is emptied over a bowl of warm pasta. Within moments, that small salty goddess is on the tongue.

I now make do with the wondrous plains of light as the tide slides over the gravel beach. Waiting. Watching.” – Tom Burrows, 2025

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Robert Marchessault | Windswept
Solo Exhibition | Upper Level Gallery
May 10-24, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday May 10, 2-4pm

In his new solo exhibition Windswept, acclaimed Canadian artist Robert Marchessault deepens his long-standing exploration of tree imagery, presenting a powerful new series that evokes both universal emotion and intimate reflection. These dynamic, wind-bent trees, most often pictured on colour field backgrounds with minimal or no additional landscape features, become expressive vessels through shape, texture and colour. Marchessault’s work invites viewers to contemplate the natural world not only as landscape, but as a profound emotional language. Drawing on the symbolic resonance trees hold across cultures and causes, Windswept captures a stirring sense of motion, resilience, and connection.

Artist statement:

Since the early 2000s tree images have been prominent in my work. I have found that their forms embody much of what I want to express on my canvases. The development of my imagery has been a long process. In this exhibition viewers will see more steps in my investigation. As always colour, light and space are of great interest to me. My compositions try to express aspects of our human conditions. I paint a lot of trees; they present a big range of emotions. It is from the likes of Morandi and other modern painters who use a repeating motif that I understand it is possible to find endless riches by exploring within a constrained set.

Trees are a major theme throughout visual art. Artists can express a large range of sentiments using trees as a subject. Organizations devoted to the environment frequently use tree images to grab our attention and harness our feelings. Most people understand the sentiments tree shapes can imply. Like the human form, trees are able to express a profound range of emotions. This is why I use their shapes, colours and textures to suggest to a viewer things that are universal but also might be intensely personal. For me making and experiencing art begins non-verbally. The way the energy flows up and through a tree is like music. Growing conditions and climate shape a tree’s form. I see parallels with our own life journeys. As such, trees provide me with an endless variation that sustains my passions as a painter.

The title of this exhibition, Windswept, is taken from one of the paintings. It’s a theme I return to because the dynamics of wind and tree shapes provides exciting compositions. I love to feel the energies at play when making these. Movement, resilience, resistance, joy…
-Robert Marchessault, 2025

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David T. Alexander | The Northern Coast: The Second Time Around
Solo Exhibition
April 12 - 26, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday April 12, 2-4pm | Artist In Attendance
Artist Talk: Saturday April 12, 2:15pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents The Northern Coast: The Second Time Around, the highly anticipated new solo exhibition from established, award-winning Canadian painter David T. Alexander. After moving back to the West Coast of Canada from the interior of BC after many years, Alexander sees it with fresh eyes, presenting rich and painterly additions to his wet and dry series in a lively, heightened colour palette. This solo exhibition marks Alexander's first in four years in Vancouver.

The April 12 opening reception of The Northern Coast: The Second Time Around will feature an artist talk beginning at 2:15pm.

Artist statement:

Moving back to British Columbia makes me very aware that I have been issued a learner’s license for what I thought I knew about what this ocean and land really are. The density of the land and the richer colours are different in my mind now. It has also required me to make frequent trips up the coastline over the last four years to take it all in. This time, I’m not working in a large tugboat but concentrating on how I am living here once again, the second time around: I am living on the edge of land, facing the vast expanse of change and familiar sameness on the coast.

- David T. Alexander, 2025

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Bratsa Bonifacho | The Language of Art
Memorial Retrospective Exhibition
March 8-16, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday March 8, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Gallery proudly presents The Language of Art, a special memorial retrospective exhibition honouring Bratsa Bonifacho, the renowned Belgrade-born, Vancouver-based artist, who passed away on December 12, 2024 at the age of 87. Internationally recognized for his deeply layered abstract paintings, Bonifacho held intense interest in technology, communication and the effects of war as the forefront of his artistic practice. He was an important and integral part of Bau-Xi Gallery for almost 30 years.

This incredible exhibition includes a curated selection of works representing key series in the artist's long career. These works serve as critical reflections on war, propaganda and the evolution - and devolution - of communication. Bonifacho's body of work continues to challenge us to consider what art stands for in an age of nuclear warfare, digital communities and alternative truth.

"...colour, line and geometry have been made to reflect tranquility, health and balance, and it is within this spectrum of hot and cool that my day-to-day mood dictates each fresh observation or expression… colour perception is highly subjective, and I know that psychological responses may differ; but what I am presenting in these recent works is the closest thing to an intimate diary that I can create." - Bratsa Bonifacho, 1937 - 2024

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Exhibitions

Cori Creed | Stratum

George Byrne | Synthetica

Eric Louie | We Still Have Time

Mel Gausden | Future Museums II

Sheri Paisley | When You Were the Sea

Jamie Evrard | Paintings from an Untamed Garden

Summer Group Exhibition | Currents

Nicole Katsuras | Wellspring

Tom Burrows | Clam

Robert Marchessault | Windswept

David T. Alexander | The Northern Coast: The Second Time Around

Bratsa Bonifacho: The Language of Art

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