In anticipation of her new solo exhibition Atlas, Toronto-based abstract painter Nicole Katsuras delves deeply into her influence from historical Japanese art aesthetics, her approach to colour and colour harmony, and the meanings behind her unique juxtapositioning of flat colour planes and highly textural extruded forms.
For her new solo exhibition Ebb and Flow, abstract artist Vicky Christou discusses her early influences of textile aesthetics, her exploration of alternative panel shapes, and the inspiration she found in expansive natural systems.
Art critic, artist and activist Karen Moe takes an in-depth look for Vigilance Magazine at the works in Kyle Scheurmann's solo exhibition We Could Have Been a Mountain.
For his new solo exhibition Life in a Northern Town, Casey McGlynn provides his own poignant descriptions of each work, distilling a deeply personal meditation on life, memory, and artistic voice beyond major art centres and drawing from everyday experience in Sault Ste. Marie and the surrounding northern Canadian area.
Kyle Scheurmann is featured in an in-depth, insightful two-part episode of the Canadian art podcast ArtBeat, with engaging host and interviewer Katie Marks. Listen to Part One beginning April 6 and Part Two beginning on April 14.
For his highly anticipated upcoming solo exhibition We Could Have Been a Mountain, Kyle Sheurmann holds his focus on the urgency of attention to old-growth forests, detailing sobering discoveries about BC’s forest fires and articulating the engulfing heartbreak caused by the loss of Sassin and the life the forest once sustained.
Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to announce that artist Sheri Paisley has been selected as the mid-career artist winner of the tenth annual Takao Tanabe Prize. Paisley shares this year's Tanabe prize with the emerging artist winner, Niitsitapi (member of Kainai First Nation) Dené artist Lauren Crazybull.
For her new solo exhibition in Vancouver, Painting with a Camera, Barbara Cole delves into both the challenges and freedoms that underwater photography presents, and how the gentle, unpredictable shifts of water's movement constitute an ideal metaphor for the effects of time, experience and contemplation on the sense of self.
In this new artist Q & A, Janna Watson reflects on Undercurrent, tracing how her bold, suspended compositions and centred gestures emerge from a deeply autobiographical process and the enigmatic nature of the subconscious.
For his inaugural solo exhibition in Vancouver, Montreal based artist Ian Stone talks to us about the attraction to realism, his use of everyday objects in symbolizing aspects of gender, and history's heavy role in shaping contemporary perceptions and expectations of queer bodies and lives.
We are thrilled to announce that Canadian high realist painter Ian Stone has joined Bau-Xi Gallery.
In anticipation of Steven Nederveen's new solo exhibition The Invisible Pull, the artist sits down with us and reflects on the inclusion of human presence in his latest imagery, the influence of surfing and meditation as practices of waiting and attunement, and his ongoing practice of combining photography and painting as a means of balancing observation, intuition, and experience.