Cori Creed | Sightlines
May 13-27, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday, May 13, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver is proud to present Sightlines, the upcoming exhibition by established BC landscape artist Cori Creed. Cori’s dynamic new canvases continue to celebrate the rich and wild province of BC, with the intention of capturing the essence of moving through the landscape.

Artist's Statement: 

It is easy to find inspiration in the dramatically and uniquely varied wild places of our province. I am constantly drawn to our wild places for so many reasons. I derive so much peace and perspective from soaking in the natural world and in doing so, I receive inspiration in the patterns and light and forms that I surround myself with. There is always another peak to be explored or a corner to turn on a coastline - treasures to be chased and revealed. It is a homage to the subject, but also to the things that lie beyond.

- Cori Creed 2023

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Michael Wolf | Feature Exhibition
May 11 - 31, 2023
340 Dundas Street W., Toronto | Upper Gallery

This May, Bau-Xi Gallery is honoured to present a curated selection of works from the renowned series, Tokyo Compression and Cheung Chau Sunrises, by the acclaimed German photographer, Michael Wolf.

In Tokyo Compression, Michael Wolf decided to push the issues of privacy and voyeurism that he first explored while documenting dense megacities to their extreme. The density presented here is not architectural but human, as commuters fill every available square inch of these subway cars. Wolf applies the “no exit” photographic style to these portraits, trapping the gaze of the viewer within the frame by aiming his camera at passengers pressed against the windows of a crammed Tokyo subway.

With the 2019 series, Cheung Chau Sunrises, Wolf left the city of Hong Kong, finding a new home on the nearby island of Cheung Chau. On the roof of this three-story house, with views of one of Hong Kong’s many bays, the series grew conceptually. These photographs appear as a systematic counterpoint, at a place synonymous with a lack of space, smog, and a permanent conformity to economic circumstance. This meditative body of work was the last one created by the award winning artist. 

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Vicki Smith | Good Medicine
May 4-25, 2023
350 Dundas Street W., Toronto
Opening Reception Thursday, May 4, 5-7 pm | Artist in Attendance

This May, we are thrilled to present Good Medicine, the highly-anticipated solo exhibition by Toronto painter, Vicki Smith. Reflecting on her most recent body of work, Smith states,

"Engaging with the Arts has a significant and measurable positive effect on health and well-being. Whether through visual art, music, movement, or creative writing, we gain a method of communication and introspection that would otherwise fall short if left simply to words. Art is a powerful conduit for working through trauma, memory, and expressing emotions.

"With the field of Art Therapy being formally created almost a century ago, the therapeutic effects of art engagement, such as relieving stress and depression, decreasing anxiety and increasing positive emotions, have become increasingly supported throughout the world around us. In 2019, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts partnered with Médecins Francophones Du Canada allowing physicians to write prescriptions for free museum visits. That same year, after the Alliance of Healthier Communities initiated the Social Prescription Pilot Program which allowed Ontario doctors, nurses, and social workers to write a prescription for free admission to local Art Galleries and Museums, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Royal Ontario Museum began to participate in this holistic treatment plan; opening their doors in the name of health and well-being.

"The Arts, physical health, and mental well-being have become synonymous in my regard as my own dedicated practice of meditation and holistic care are deeply entwined with my studio practice. One is rooted in the other and vice versa; because of this, I believe what comes out on the canvas is good for me and good for the viewer, because Art is Good Medicine."

- Vicki Smith, 2023

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Anne Griffiths | Becoming the Story
April 15-29, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday, April 15, 2-4pm | Artist in Attendance

Anne Griffiths' anticipated solo exhibition of abstracted landscape paintings explores interpretations of space, distance and memory through gestural line work and a sophisticated colour palette.  

Artist's Statement:
 
These new works are a journey to unknown places; the paintings share my deep sense of connection to place in uncertain times. My enduring love for natural environments draws me to seek places I haven't been to, and after immersing myself in these settings I return to the studio with the energy drawn from my observations. Absorbed in the analog world of pure pigment and tactile surface, I put my trust in the creative process.
 
The subjects vary: trees talking (not shouting); ocean life strangled, reaching for clean waters; hearts aching, a collective loss. All these things move me, and in return I tell their stories, expressing them through a palette of unexpected colour combinations. By trusting my intuition, I imagine new beginnings to tales that inspire empathy, create sanctuary, and offer hope.
 
By exploring the essence of the landscape, both physically and metaphorically, my new work strives to unravel new chapters in a path of twists and turns. I have challenged myself to find new ways to be the narrator but also be part of the story.  Each painting is a surprise to me, and I continue to find inspiration in the process of discovery.

-Anne Griffiths 2023

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Vicky Christou | Infinitude
April 1-12, 2023
Upper Gallery
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday, April 1, 2-4pm | Artist in Attendance

Vicky Christou's work explores the illusionary play between colour, proportion, and pattern. Christou constructs a dimensional surface by meticulously applying layers of lines of acrylic paint by hand. The accumulated paint lines create an optical play between colour, form and space. Christou’s highly textured surfaces defy traditional distinctions between painting, sculpture and craft.

Artist statement:

Within my new body of work, I reference stillness, memory and infinity. My meditative art practice acts as a performative cornerstone from where I reflectively begin and pause.  

The impasto painted grid form moves into subtle enfolding and unfolding patterns and arrangements, while other paintings are in states of stasis. I was inspired by the concept of infinity and the Greek work Aperion, the constant loop of ephemeral life experiences and happenings. I find beauty in fleeting glimpses of transient light: a colour that glints, peaks in saturation, then descends and fades. The simple poetry of daily observations, my paintings symbolize transient variables of my pauses, still moments of awareness and memories.  

These works use both color and materiality to create feelings of a time and space, or a memory of a person that I want to see again.

-Vicky Christou 2023

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Tom Burrows | Lunar Cycles, from The Curve of Time Series
April 1-12, 2023
Main Gallery
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday, April 1, 2-4pm | Artist in Attendance

Internationally recognized artist Tom Burrows utilizes cast pigment polymer resin as his primary medium. His current practice focuses on colour fields, which play with opacity and surface texture to give the illusion of a panel lit from within. In this new chapter of work entitled Lunar Cycles, Tom pays homage to the lunar-cycle-driven tidal waters that are integral to his series The Curve of Time, and how the first encounter with that tidal power shaped his approach to art.

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David T. Alexander | Small Works Feature
March 16 - 30, 2023
340 Dundas Street West, Toronto

Bau-Xi is pleased to present a gallery feature of David T. Alexander's Small Works, a collection of intimate, small-scale landscapes. 

Throughout his fifty-year career, David Alexander has been known to paint works ranging from incredibly large-scale to those only mere inches wide. While his large paintings are undoubtedly powerful, Alexander's mastery of paint is equally evident in his small works. The pieces burst with intensity and drama, managing to possess an incredible amount of visual information despite their small size. These works prove that it is not scale that envelops a viewer into a scene, but rather a true understanding and honest portrayal of a subject by a skilled artist.

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Bau-Xi is excited to announce the launch of a book dedicated to David T. Alexander's Small Works. Purchase the book here.