Exhibitions

Anthony Redpath | SUBLIMATION
April 4-20
3045 Granvile Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 6-9 pm. Artist in Attendance

Bau-Xi Vancouver is pleased to present SUBLIMATION, a body of work by Vancouver-based photographer Anthony Redpath. Following his acclaimed RE-FINED series, the artist further explores the industrial edifice of the west coast and visually mines a landscape rooted in its industrial history.
 
Redpath positions his lens at close range, then crops and recomposes his subjects in post-production, distilling them into a series of abstracted planes of form and texture. Select works in SUBLIMATION demonstrate a new direction for Redpath. His overpainted photographs emphasize the inherent texture of aged industrial surfaces through the physical edges of oil paint, which has been scraped and dragged along the surface. Material boundaries between photographic subject, print and paint are obscured, hinting at the many layered material processes that are concealed by Redpath’s monumental walled structures.

Redpath draws influence most notably from Bernd and Hilla Becher’s typologies, Andreas Gursky’s meticulously detailed images of modernity and the rich textural detail of Gerhard Richter’s scraped paintings. Captivating to the viewer from a distance, Redpath’s compositions, upon closer inspection, conjure themes of perception, industry, socio-politics and the environment.

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Virginia Mak | Composed
April 6-20, 2019
350 Dundas Street W., Toronto 
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 6, 2019, 2-4 PM. Artist in attendance. 

This April, Bau-Xi Photo is pleased to present Composed, a new series by Toronto-based photographer Virginia Mak.  In this latest body of work, Mak is interested in capturing the creative spirit in visual form. In Composed, Mak’s signature soft-focus solitary figures reveal themselves through a veil of superimposed hand-painted motifs, alluding to a certain artistic sensibility. The resulting image shifts from portrait to poetic character study. The delicate process pushes the medium of photography beyond its conventional limits, marrying the photographic surface and experimental, painterly effect.

Virginia Mak was born in Hong Kong. After graduating with a Philosophy Degree from the University of Calgary, she studied Photography at the Ontario College of Art. Mak's photographs can be found in public and private collections in North America and Hong Kong.

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Drew Burnham | ULTRAMARINE
March 9-23, 2019
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 2019, 2-4 PM, Artist in Attendance

Ultramarine is the long-awaited solo exhibition of new works by acclaimed painter Drew Burnham.

Colourful abstract under-paintings form the foundation of this latest series and from this disarray emerges the artist’s distinct aesthetic language. Lush forms, intricate brushstrokes, and sweeping movement embody the stirring vitality of the Canadian wilderness in Burnham's canvasses.

The burgeoning fervor of the coastal brush as seen in Graham Island, the tidal waters of Goose Bay Cannery, Bella Coola with their vivid patterning, South to Pirates Cove, rich with the dynamic vitality of its windswept trees — these scenes are the mode through which Burnham’s opus delivers a purely visual rapport through the eyes of the beholder.

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Erin Armstrong | The Burden Of Broken Silence
March 7-21, 2018
340 Dundas Street W, Toronto

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 6-8 pm, Artist in Attendance.

 

Juxtaposing the everyday with surrealistic imaginings, painter Erin Armstrong captures hidden emotions often lost in human experience. Her concern is not to recreate reality as it exists, but rather to evoke an atmosphere that transports the viewer into a world of interpretation. 

In The Burden of Broken Silence, Armstrong depicts figures representing how it feels to be alive in today’s world. The collection encourages the viewer to question and examine the metaphorical masks we wear, the environment we occupy, and our awareness of our surroundings.  

Armstrong's work is sold internationally and has been exhibited in Canada, the US, Australia, Sweden and the UK. In 2014, she was selected by Saatchi Art as their "One To Watch" and by Saatchi Art's chief curator, Rebecca Wilson, as one of "20 Emerging Artist in the World to Follow." Designlines Magazine named Armstrong one of Toronto's "Six New Art Stars" and blogTO counted her in their "Top 10 Most Talked About Painters In Toronto." In 2018, Armstrong completed an artist residency in Los Angeles at ESXLA.

The artist has recently collaborated on projects for The Drake Hotel, Nike, Kit + Ace, Saatchi Limited. She has upcoming exhibits in Toronto, Australia, Stockholm, Edinburgh, London, Oslo, Miami and NYC.

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Ted Fullerton | Prima Materia
February 9 – 23, 2019
340 Dundas St West, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 9, 2-4 pm. Artist in Attendance.

Rich with symbolism, Ted Fullerton’s work investigates the duality of human nature; the rational and the illogical, the physical and the spiritual, the intellectual and the intuitive. The paintings, sculptures, and stone lithographs in Prima Materia highlight this dichotomy with references to folklore, psychology, philosophy, art history, classical mythology and allegory, while holding contemporary connotations.

The concept of Prima Materia refers to the prima material or first matter; the primitive formless base of all substance. Exploring this idea, the artist’s pictorial and sculptural language illustrates and reinforces a collective memory, as well as human “duality,” within a contemporary perspective – in the words of the artist – “by turning the gaze inward as mirror and metaphor.”

 

Image Details:

Top: Ted Fullerton, Gukumatz and the 3 Sisters, Oil on Wood with Masonite Panel, 48 X 84 in. Left: Nietzsche and Me, Stone Lithograph, 22 X 30 in. Right: Newton's Theory, Cast Resin, Bronze Powder, Steel, 15 X 9 X 15 in.

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Janna Watson | Suspended in Time
February 9 – 23, 2019
3045 Granville Street
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 9, Artist in Attendance

Suspended in Time is a new body of work by acclaimed painter Janna Watson. The exhibition is inspired by the artist’s late grandfather Arthur Bonnet, a seasoned artist who turned away from landscape painting in the 1940s and moved towards abstraction after studying at Pratt Institute in New York as Expressionism was making its way to Canada.

The legacy of Arthur Bonnet is present throughout Suspended in Time. From early painting lessons to exciting trips to the art supply store, Arthur was a pivotal influence on the artist throughout her artistic career. Over the years, Janna has incorporated lighter washes of paint across wood panel, preferring the birch wood surface to canvas for its ability to absorb paint like watercolour paper.  As Arthur taught Janna the fundamentals of painting, he also urged her to develop her own voice and encouraged her to paint wildly. “I love things harmoniously ugly", Arthur would declare. This sentiment now largely informs Janna’s choice of colour, line and stroke as she lays down each bold, intuitive mark, delicately suspended in time and space. The artist explains, “When I feel a painting is nearly complete, I like to use oil stick and ink as the final step to help ground the work. It’s a personal reminder to paint wilder! These scribbles are my exclamation marks that finish each sentence”.

Suspended in Time is Watson’s ode to the late Arthur Bonnet, a suite of paintings created with painterly fervour in honour of the hundredth anniversary of Arthur’s life.

 

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Eric Louie | Chameleon
January 12-26, 2019
340 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Opening reception: Saturday, January 12th, 2019, 2-4 pm. Artist in Attendance

Bau-Xi Gallery Toronto is pleased to present Chameleon, a solo exhibition featuring all new work by oil painter Eric Louie.

Eric Louie is a Vancouver based artist, whose vibrant compositions are being recognized by numerous collectors both public and private.

Louie’s current body of work is the culmination of his experiences as a painter. He describes his work as alluding to landscape, still life, portraiture and how those genres surface in each piece; inventing scenes via many thin layers of luminescent glazes. The delicate, yet dynamic forms that he depicts are central to the ‘virtual worlds’ he creates for the viewer to explore. 

Louie holds a B.F.A from the Alberta College of Art and Design, where he was awarded the prestigious Jason Lang Scholarship. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including CIBC, Encana Energy, NBC Studios, Paramount and MGM Pictures, as well as the City of Calgary.

Louie has shown his work nationally over the past decade in more than 25 exhibitions.

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