Exhibitions

Kim Keever | Gallery Feature
June 1-15, 2019
350 Dundas Street W, Toronto
Opening reception: Saturday, June 1, 2019, 2-4pm

This June, Bau-Xi Photo is pleased to show the selected works of Kim Keever, the newest addition to our roster of photographers. Keever is an internationally acclaimed artist based in New York, known for his colourful large-scale abstractions, which he creates by pouring paint into a 200-gallon tank of water in his studio.  Keever uses his large-format digital camera to capture the resulting clouds of colour as they swirl into different forms and diffuse themselves through the water.

About the artist: in the mid-1970s, Keever changed career paths, switching from working as a thermal engineer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to fulltime artist. His previous vocation continues to inform his work today, lending scientific methodology and investigative process to his artistic process.

Kim Keever’s work has been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His work has been widely collected, and can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the Bank of America; Harvard Library; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.

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Casey McGlynn | The Journey the Meeting the Destination
May 4-18, 2019
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4, 2019, 2-4 PM

The Journey the Meeting the Destination is a visual open journal by Canadian interdisciplinary artist Casey McGlynn, whose latest body of work is a rueful meditation on the past 20-odd years of his life and career. Featuring the artist's distinct and multilayered horse studies-cum-interior cartography, this exhibition also marks the McGlynn’s return to his herd series, the frequent subject now imbued with renewed symbolic potency.

At once a personal reckoning with the inevitable passage of time and his own reluctant maturation, McGlynn’s canvasses also function as fragmented musings on our contemporary anxieties and the intense precarity of our crisis-ridden times. The understated poignancy of “Leaving Toronto After 25 Years” succinctly captures the artist's critical stance, as McGlynn dwells on eras ended and pasts to be lost, and documents his own attempts to navigate the uncertain present with humor and stylistic verve.

With a recurring pantheon of characters and motifs from McGlynn’s ever-growing, pop-culture-influenced personal mythology — extant forms of his youth at play with spectres of a more immediate past — McGlynn narrates our collective coping. Forcefully expressive, profoundly honest, and wildly irreverent, the raw poeticism of McGlynn’s compositions honor the trials and tribulations of lived experience and evoke a visual catharsis, as he casts a perversely hopeful eye to the future at hand.

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Steven Nederveen | Between the Moon and the Sun
May 4-18, 2019
3045 Granville St, Vancouver
Artist's Reception: Saturday, May 4th, 2-4 pm

The title 'Between the Moon and the Sun' refers to the rise and fall of ocean tides, as well as the turbulent inner world of people. Much like our own lives, the sea is always in a state of flux. The movement of water is captivating to watch in all its forms, from roiling, hateful torrents to zen-like calm ripples, the fluidity of water mirrors the physical and emotional range of our outer and inner worlds.

Steven Nederveen’s newest body of work charts his navigation and exploration of the psychic qualities of water. He draws attention to the physical world (depicted in the photographs) and applies it with painterly effects to articulate his emotional connection to the sea. Paint and photo form a bonded alchemy of magical revealing and concealing. Gold specks and textures are created by scratching into the emulsion of the photograph to unveil gold tones present in the underpainting. By isolating the wave, it becomes a kind of portrait - the qualities of which have been distilled and given new expression.

As an avid sailor, the artist’s relationship with water is an intimate one. Nederveen imbues a sense of mystery and spiritual depth into the waves, derived from his own attachment to the sea. Rolling waves emerge out of a haze of serene grey, or pitching up from a rich blue-black void, while gold highlights spill out of the turbulence between light and dark and settle into a white, frothy flutter. ‘Between the Moon and the Sun’ is an intimate meditation on the interconnectedness of planets, water and ourselves.

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Katrin Korfmann and Jens Pfeifer | BACK STAGES 
A Featured Exhibition for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

May 1-31, 2019
350 Dundas Street W., Toronto 
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4th, 2-4pm.

Bau-Xi Gallery is pleased to present Back Stages, a new photographic series created by fine art photographer Katrin Korfmann and sculptor Jens Pfeifer. Back Stages documents the underappreciated world of manufacturing that is nonetheless essential to the making of artworks and culturally important objects.

Fascinated by the facilities where fine art and culturally important objects are created, the artists traveled the world over three years capturing scenes such as a bronze foundry in the Netherlands, a stainless-steel workshop in China, an archeological excavation site in Turkey, and a functioning 11th century tannery in Morocco. By foregrounding these facilities, Korfmann and Pfeifer draw attention away from the romantic notion of a solitary artist in their studio and shift it to a broader network of labour. Every step of the artistic process, from planning to execution, is wrought with artistic meaning, and is integral to the final piece of art. Back Stages emphasizes the significance of manufacturing and materials in the world of art and culture.

Back Stages was selected as a Featured Exhibition for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and will be on view at our photography location for the entire month of May. 

Katrin Korfmann is an Amsterdam-based photographic artist, known for her large-scale aerial images examining human interaction in public spaces. Jens Pfeifer bases his artistic practice out of Amsterdam; he is a visual artist working mainly in sculpture, whose work explores how human beings deeply identify with images of the natural world.

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Alex Cameron | Big Dipper, Polaris North
April 6-20, 2019
340 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 6, 2-4 pm. Artist in Attendance

Bau-Xi Toronto is pleased to present Big Dipper, Polaris North, a dynamic body of work by renowned Toronto-based artist, Alex Cameron.

In his latest series, Cameron continues his exploration of the night sky in a distinctive style that has defined his work for over 40 years. His thick, painterly application lends lively sculptural form to the energetic landscapes he creates. Not only bold and bright, Cameron’s colours are unconventional, inverted, and built up in linear “ropes” of paint, often applied straight from the tube, that make his surfaces hum with life.

Cameron was introduced to New York City’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1960s. He witnessed concurrent and equally powerful experiments in abstraction back home in Toronto, where he worked as a studio assistant for the late Jack Bush in the mid-1970s. Cameron's subjects—the varied landscapes of Canada, observed during his regular coast to coast travels—are not merely captured or recorded in paint, but rather honoured for their complexity; they are organic, total, and magical environments that live and grow.
 
Alex Cameron’s paintings have been collected extensively in Canada and abroad. Notable collections include the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Bank of Canada, and The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Art Collection.

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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Jeffrey Milstein | AERIALS
March 9-23, 2019
350 Dundas Street W., Toronto 
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 2019, 2-4 PM

This March, Bau-Xi Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by acclaimed American photographer Jeffrey Milstein. The show will feature the latest works in his ongoing series, AERIALS. Shot from a helicopter, these meticulously composed and highly detailed images offer a unique view of iconic sites such as the Palace of Versailles and the Empire State Building. 

Join us on Saturday, March 9 from 2-4pm to celebrate the exhibition opening. 

Jeffrey Milstein is an acclaimed American photographer who has won numerous awards for his aircraft photography and mesmerizing aerial landscapes. His photographs have been published in Men’s Vogue, TIME Magazine, European Photography, American Photo, Eyemazing, Die Zeit, Wired, PDN, Esquire and Conde Nast Portfolio. His acclaimed series “Aircraft: The Jet as Art” was exhibited in a year-long solo show at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC from November 2011 – November 2012. Born in Los Angeles, where he frequently returns to shoot at the International Airport, Milstein makes his home in Woodstock, NY.

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