Exhibitions

Jamie Evrard | Paintings from an Untamed Garden

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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Janna Watson | Elementals

Janna Watson | Elementals
February 15 - 27, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday January 15, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Elementals, the highly anticipated new solo exhibition from Toronto-based abstract artist Janna Watson.

Ever inspired by nature and literature in its many forms, the artist focuses her new collection specifically on the elements of stone, water and wind, finding a muse in the 20th century Irish poet and author John O’Donoghue (1956-2008) and his moving talk “The Inner Landscape”. Her signature dynamic gestures, captured in paint, suggest the significance of a moment, both in our own lives and in the perpetual life cycle of these elements.

Artist statement:

“The interplay between farmers and the elements is a poem without words. The air could hold the breeze of the rain or the wind of warmth to the discerning nose. The stone carried its memory deep into the hands that chiseled it. Fire was life in the hearth which was the centre of home. Water introduced itself to us from its most natural source in streams and wells. I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” -John O’ Donoghue

John O’Donoghue perfectly paints the sentiment of being immersed in nature and the reciprocity of its spiritual elements, which he eloquently describes as “poems without words”. These paintings express the unspoken language of nature, seemingly spontaneous and inherently connecting our outer and inner landscapes.

For me, it’s in the silence where nature’s generous unfolding invokes an awe of the numinous sentience of the elements.

- Janna Watson, 2025

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Isabelle Menin | We Are Floating Worlds
January 11 - 25, 2025
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday January 11, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver is thrilled to open 2025 with We Are Floating Worlds, a new solo exhibition by Brussels, Belgium based photographic artist Isabelle Menin. This lush collection features works selected from Menin's three most recent series - Living Underground, Changing Moods, and Be Careful With That Axe, Eugene. Equally adept at photography and digital manipulation, Menin creates her iconic 'disordered landscapes' with layers of her original photographs and the desire to construct emotive alternate worlds, simultaneously vast and intimate.

Artist statement:

In creation there is something underground, mysterious, difficult to explain. Why does someone suddenly start creating something that no one asked them to do? This kind of free freedom is intriguing. We all, more or less consciously, choose our "mount" to travel through life. It is a bit like shamanism - we are stretched between the mysterious parts of ourselves and those of the universe.

Before showing one's work to others, there is first an intimate conversation with oneself; this inner dialogue is not linear or made of any straight lines. My images reflect this meandering path, this inner landscape, which is why I gave them all a general title: Disordered Landscapes. The landscape is often a vast thing and it seems interesting to me to associate it with something very intimate; a bit like an inversion of meaning.

All artists are passers-by, intercessors between the visible and invisible worlds. Art is the best mirror of what is not seen, said or shown. The Living Underground series is also that: what is hidden, underground, the dark, where life germinates. It is hiding to let things come to life in silence. Often there is another image below the final image that is shown, which I have covered with a layer that masks it. I like this idea of a life hidden under a life shown.

Regarding the series Be Careful with That Axe, Eugene, I gave it that title because of a song by Pink Floyd. My series titles generally come after the images, but I was working on the first image of this series when I heard this song by Pink Floyd from the album In a World Full of Flowers. I liked this telescoping between the words ‘pink’, ‘Eugene’ (a name dear to my heart), and ‘flowers’ at the moment when I added pink to an image. It is a series in which I approach things differently, where prolixity and abundance are defined more by lines and traces, like the geographical map of a world so beautiful in which we are so brutal and violent when we should be approaching it with much more care and love. We create to discover what we were looking for without knowing it yet - sometimes we receive answers before we even know the questions. It is beyond thought.

The series Changing Moods came to me while I was looking at Monet's series of cathedrals - the repetition of the pattern that differs according to the hours of the day, like the variations of our moods. Colours are emotions, emotions have colours. Our emotions are floating worlds. I worked on it at the same time as Be Careful with That Axe, Eugene - one series on a white background, the other on multi-colored backgrounds. They respond to each other; they are the two sides of the same apprehension of what surrounds us.

Happiness is cruel. Art consoles. We leave traces in the landscapes we cross and in those that cross us.

- Isabelle Menin, January 2025

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Holiday | Gallery Artists
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
December 7-31, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, December 7 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver is pleased to present our annual holiday group exhibition, featuring stunning new paintings and photography in the spirit of the season. Please join us for refreshments at the opening reception on Saturday, December 7 from 2-4pm.

The exhibition includes works by artists including Bratsa Bonifacho, Tom Burrows, Cori Creed, Jamie Evrard, Kim Keever, Nicole Katsuras, Kathryn MacNaughton, Casey McGlynn, Robert Marchessault, Michelle Nguyen and more.

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Steven Nederveen | Heart Centre
November 16 - 30, 2024
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Main Level
Opening Reception: Saturday November 16, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present Heart Centre, the new solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Steven Nederveen. In this new series, Nederveen's signature combination of painting and photography is heightened by soft colour fields to fashion a dreamlike world of peaceful clarity. Expansive coastal vistas harmonized with these colour fields serve to symbolize connections between our natural environment and aspects of spirituality.

Artist Statement

This new collection brings the viewer into a soft expanse where the universe becomes a kind and gentle extension of ourselves. Surrender to the timeless power of the ocean while being transported to an ephemeral dreaminess through glowing fields of saturated colour.

My work is heavily influenced by meditation practices, serving as a guide for internal reflection and harmony with the external world. In yoga and meditation, the Heart Centre refers to the central body chakra, or energy point on the body. This spot is our centre of love for oneself and others, compassion, empathy and forgiveness. In Sanskrit this chakra is called Anahata, meaning 'infinite', 'unhurt' or 'boundless’. I bring these ideas into my landscape images to marry both our inner and outer worlds.

I intentionally draw from the Abstract Expressionists in these works to use similar signifiers like Mark Rothko’s framing of colour blocks and Barnett Newman’s ‘zip’ lines. Both artists were interested in the transcendent experience as well.

-Steven Nederveen, 2024

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Vicky Christou | Soft Gravity
November 16 - 30, 2024
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Upper Gallery
Opening Reception: Saturday November 16, 2-4pm
Artist In Attendance

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Soft Gravity, the new solo exhibition from Vancouver based abstract painter Vicky Christou. Meditation and breathwork are an intrinsic aspect of her signature extruded-paint technique, with every extruded line of paint being executed in a single exhaled breath. Her works are inspired by quiet observations of nature and suggest a sublime, universal order.

Artist Statement:

My processes are the driving content of my work; my continued exploration of paint materiality is encoded with personal narratives and the awareness of gendered histories. My paintings simultaneously reference craft and abstraction.

For my new exhibition entitled “Soft Gravity” I was inspired by the solace found in walks along local shorelines and forest trails. During these walks I felt a deep connection with and appreciation of nature, benefiting from the restorative powers in its seasonal changes of colours and patterns. The title “Soft Gravity” refers to a feeling of buoyancy, which I interpret as an impermanent and atmospheric quality of rising. I observed the early morning fog lifting over the ocean and pollen particles being swept up by the wind - I was inspired to capture the sensations of whirling, floating and the denial of gravity that the fog and wind made appear so effortless.

Though I still begin with the foundational bones of the structured grid, these new works allow for the grid to become organic, no longer an enclosed structure – it opens up to weightlessness, free movement, and new possibilities.

-Vicky Christou, 2024

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Exhibitions

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

Janna Watson | Elementals

Isabelle Menin | We Are Floating Worlds

HOLIDAY | GALLERY ARTISTS

Steven Nederveen | Heart Centre

Vicky Christou | Soft Gravity

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