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 Installation view of Tom Burrows' 2016 solo show at Bau-Xi Toronto

Bau-Xi Gallery is proud to share that Tom Burrows’ work #4 Hematoma: Violet/Red will be displayed in an upcoming exhibition at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario.

This piece, which is part of their public collection, will be shown in The hold: studies in the contemporary collection, opening this winter. The form and allusion of #4 Hematoma: Violet/Red inspired the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes to include the piece in this exhibition, which explores the idea of the container and embrace.

Tom Burrows’ panel will be hanging alongside pieces by Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Napoleon Brousseau, Lyne Lapointe and Martha Fleming, Anne Ramsden, Luis Jacob, Ted Rettig, Gabrielle Sims and Lisa Visser.

The exhibition will be on view from 7 January to 9 April 2017 at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

VIEW TOM BURROWS WORK

Enjoy the rich detail of Cameron's thick impasto techniques this January at Bau-Xi Toronto

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

January 7 - 21
340 Dundas St. West, Toronto
Opening Reception January 7
2:00 - 4:00 pm

"Rainbow Station" is an exhibition of new work by one of Canada’s favourite contemporary landscape painters, whose explorative relationship with colour and texture has defined his work for over 40 years. Immersed in the arts from a young age, Alex Cameron was introduced to New York City’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1960s, and 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 celebration of pure pigment has since characterized his canvases, with his thick painterly application lends lively sculptural form to both his energetic landscapes and non-representational studies. 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. His 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.

VIEW THE COLLECTION HERE

Bau-Xi artists Bobbie Burgers, Drew Burnham, Barbara Cole, and Joshua Jensen-Nagle's works are beautifully documented in their art books. These publications contain your favourite artworks curated within, accompanied by texts that complete the picture--a colourful holiday gift option! 

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Congratulations to Bau-Xi artist Ted Fullerton who has recently been awarded a sculpture commission for the Billings Art and Heritage Trail, Manitoulin Island, to be installed in the Summer of 2017.

Digital rendering of the artist’s intention for commissioned piece Ascend/Transcend

Ascend/Transcend: Billings Art and Heritage Trail, Manitoulin Island.

The sculpture Ascend/Transcend will consist of three figures stepping up into “imagined space”. Each pole will have a different elevation reinforcing the notion of ascension and transcendance, creating a sculpture that places imagined human endeavor and achievement between earth and sky. This inference will be reinforced with a yellow bird – yellow being symbollc of enlightenment – surmounted on the highest figure’s head.

View paintings and sculpture by Ted Fullerton online here 

1. Why the fascination with the Grid?

 In western art history the grid is an emblem of modernism.  It references a point in timein which new ways of seeing and thinking were expressed through artists such as Mondrian, Malevich,  Rodchenko and later Agnes Martin.  These artists continue to inspire me.

 Within my artistic practice the grid acts a vessel, it becomes the perimeter for various metaphors, processes and rituals.  For example the metaphor of a veil, an enclosed space, and the ritualistic marking of counted breaths within a specific time frame.

I have also wanted to simultaneously convey a relationship between conceptual minimalism and textile handiwork.  The layered paint forms a grid, which in turn embodies a relationship to paint that is seemingly woven.

I was raised in a family where the women were avid about cloth and all forms of handiwork, crochet, knitting, weaving and sewing: that impulse has informed my art practice.

2. There appears to be a feeling of restraint and an internal elegant logic within each painting. Do you set a predetermined guideline or set of rules for each work or is it very processed oriented?

 I  do begin with a predetermined guideline of the grid, which I draw out in pencil first. I can then have a flexible guide and work on a group of paintings to begin with.

As I keep working I then begin to respond to the individual needs of each piece.  I can introduce new rules, such as colour or proportional sequence and build layers this way, but I trust how I respond when viewing a piece in determining if it’s completed or not.  If I have an internal response I know it’s finished.

This may take some time and that is why some paintings have thicker layers or are denser.  I also go back and rework paintings, sometimes over a period of years.  The accumulation metaphor of my forever and endless paintings is intuitively guided. This process is something I want to explore more of in the future.

3. Do you have rituals or routines in the studio that help you paint? For example do you listen to music or is it completely quiet?

I like to create an atmosphere through listening to different meditative music or mantras. This helps me create a focus of intent.  I have practiced meditation for many years and my painting process shares many of its elements.  Being present in the moment and being conscious of my breath.

Bau-Xi Gallery is pleased to announce representation of Canadian abstract painter Vicky Christou.

Vicky Christou explores the illusionary play between colour, proportion and pattern to construct a dimensional surface within the pure form of the grid. Her abstract paintings and pastels are her way of encoding a series of personal experiences in time. 

The metaphor of the shield and veil inform the poetic interplay of her most recent work, which is composed of multiple layers of thick impasto that resemble paint-constructed bas-relief works, working together to form a grid with incredible depth. 

The application of the paint in repetitive patterns in various orders and consistency becomes an industrial system for Christou, constructing surfaces that appear both sculptural and painterly. A grid of acrylic impasto, suggestive of an architectural tapestry, thread throughout the top surface offering varying glimpses into the layers of colour that form the composition. A record of accumulated paint lines are seemingly cast out for a thematic search of the netted form, inviting an optical play between the pigments solidity and illusionary characteristics.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Christou immigrated to Canada in 1969 and is a graduate of the Emily Carr College of Art and Design.

Richly textured abstract paintings and geometric pastels on paper will debut at Bau-Xi Vancouver as part of the annual Holiday Exhibition (December 3 - 28).

VIEW VICKY CHRISTOU WORK HERE

VIEW ARTWORK PREVIEW FOR CONTEXT ART MIAMI HERE

Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Looking Through Your Eyes, archival pigment print face-mounted to plexi, available at multiple sizes. ACQUIRE

Anda Kubis, Dance, digital painting on canvas, 30 x 42 inches, ACQUIRE

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to announce representation of recognized Canadian abstract painter Anda Kubis.

Anda Kubis works in expanded digital, material, and traditional oil painting processes. Due to the prominence of colour in her artwork, Kubis consciously considers how the engagement with aesthetics and creativity positive affects human flourishing and quality of life. With degrees from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and York University, Kubis crosses her artistic practice with design and architecture, material exploration, and her significant teaching career. She is the Associate Dean of Outreach and Innovation in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. Numerous public and private collections have acquired Kubis’ work, including RBC, TD Bank, BMO, Cenovus Energy, Aimia, The Westaim Corporation, and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.

VIEW ANDA KUBIS ARTWORK HERE