Exhibitions

Gallery Artists | Unique Perspectives
February 1-22, 2024
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto

In our everyday lives, certain elements can often go unnoticed. Not on purpose, but simply because they are omnipresent. Whether it be a book, a flower, or even the buildings and people that surround us, we accept these as a part of life. Through their imaginative creations, artists have the unique ability to take these objects and ask us to look at them anew. This month, we feature works by Cara Barer, Isabelle Menin, Jeffrey Milstein, and Michael Wolf, artists who keenly observe the world around them, taking everyday objects and offering a unique perspective to the viewer. Their hope is that we take these experiences with us and look at the world that surrounds us with a deeper fascination.

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Joseph Plaskett | Repose
January 13-27, 2024 | EXTENDED through February 1
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday November 18, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver is proud and honoured to open 2024 with Repose, a special retrospective solo exhibition from eminent Canadian artist Joseph Plaskett (1918-2014). This collection of oils, pastels and etchings features quietly captivating scenes of interiors and gardens most loved by the artist.

A native of New Westminster, BC, Plaskett studied art in Banff, San Francisco, New York, London and Paris. His time in Paris and later years in Suffolk, England (where he passed away in 2014) are the focus of this exhibition, and each work reflects his distinctive mastery of form and composition and a perpetually fresh palette. 

Since the 1940s, Plaskett has had over 65 solo and group exhibitions, with work in major public, private and corporate collections including the National Gallery of Canada. He has exhibited with Bau-Xi Gallery, both in Vancouver and Toronto, since 1973. In the spring of 2001, he was awarded The Order of Canada for excellence in the field of visual art.

Join us and explore the intimate and extraordinary world of one of Canada's greatest artists.

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Gallery Artists | Sculpture Feature
January 13-27, 2024
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto 

This January, Bau-Xi Dufferin is thrilled to present Sculpture Feature, that will showcase the sculptural work of Tom Burrows, Ted Fullerton, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, and Will Robinson. 

See how each artist transcends the meaning of sculpture through their own unique practices, using a variety of materials and techniques to bring these artworks to life.

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Gallery Artists | 2024 A Year In Preview
January 13-27, 2024
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto

This January, Bau-Xi Dufferin presents Year In Preview, a curated selection of artworks to preview our exhibiting artists for the year ahead. Featuring works by Chris Shepherd, Kyle Scheurmann, Kathryn Macnaughton, Janna Watson, Erin Armstrong, among other gallery artists! 

We are delighted to showcase highlighted artworks by each artist that best represent their unique creative styles and talents. Please join us this January to view these breathtaking pieces in person and celebrate what is to come in 2024.

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Darlene Cole | Prelude
December 1-22, 2023
1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Opening Reception: Saturday December 2, 2-4 pm | Artist in Attendance

This December, Bau-Xi Gallery is delighted to present Prelude, an all-new exhibition by renowned Canadian painter, Darlene Cole.

In her latest for the gallery, Darlene Cole presents a stunning collection of oil paintings evoking her signature ethereal scenes. Often familiar and mysterious all at once, Cole's pieces are imbued with a sense of curiosity, playfulness, and an element of open-ended mystery.

On Prelude, the artist writes, "As in the prelude of a suite, each painting acts as a springboard to what comes next. Figures are surrounded by elements of nature and water, inviting an immersion into the body of work with each gestural moment."

Darlene Cole captures a hazy, haunting world of poetry and wonder. The artist’s distinct oil painting techniques lend a watercolour effect to her subjects without compromising rich colour values and velvety textures. Cole’s canvases—dreamy expanses inhabited by spirited figures—are studies of time and memory. These figures, both human and animal, play a pivotal role, evoking emotional responses in the viewer as Cole navigates between layers of reference and meaning. At once playful and melancholic, Cole’s work draws on themes characteristic of her established painting career: the inherent mystery of old architectural interiors, the power of painterly colour and texture to spark memory, and the exploration of childhood innocence and its loss.

Cole's work is extensively collected across Canada and internationally. Notable public collections include: The Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, the K.F. Preueter Collection of Canadian Art, Royal Bank of Canada, CIBC, OCAD University, Fairmont Hotels (Toronto, Montreal, Banff), and Manulife Financial.

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Vicki Smith | Ripple Effect
November 18-30, 2023
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Saturday November 18, 2-4pm

Bau-Xi Vancouver presents Ripple Effect, the highly anticipated solo exhibition from Toronto based artist Vicki Smith. Vicki Smith is a painter whose goal is peace. These evocative new images, replete with the calm energy of Smith's own meditation practice, feature the artist's incredible skill with the brush in capturing the look and movement of water. They draw in the viewer, prompting memories of times when swimming and floating enabled moments of solace amidst the cacophony of life.

Artist Statement:

Appearing from The Walrus magazine and Connor Garrel, upon express request of the artist as her favoured artist and show statement:

"All of the women in Vicki Smith's paintings are suspended, floating in water and time. They court peace in pools and lakes. postponing gravity, going nowhere fast. Sometimes you can glimpse some rocks or stretch of shore at the edge of a frame, but mostly they are alone, buoyant and unbothered. These scenes are rendered almost romantically, with impasto snarls of blue and green and ochre, and when Smith talks about them, she uses words like "serene", and "meditation", and "memory". She doesn't even think of her women as "swimmers", she says. "To me, it's more intangible than that, a limitlessness that's closer to flying."

-Connor Garrel on Vicki Smith, July/August 2023

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The Constructed Landscape
November 4-16, 2023 | Upper Gallery
3045 Granville Street, Vancouver

Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents The Constructed Landscape, a specially curated exhibition featuring photographic works by Bau-Xi’s urban landscape photographers.

In the Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, Fabrizio Nevola provided the following: “The study and practice of urbanism has been defined as “broadly encompass[ing] town planning and urban improvement, often a technical activity overseen by professionals; it is also taken to relate to the processes and interactions of urban society with the built environment, a more all-encompassing definition in which agency is afforded to urban populations in the shaping of the environment they inhabit.” (November 29, 2018).

Feats of engineering, technology and urban planning all contribute to the structure of a city: a composite of built environments designed to enhance and help us navigate contemporary life. The Constructed Landscape focuses on these built surroundings and the multiple ways in which they can be viewed, from the impressive patterning of a fully designed and realized community to the humble materials used to build it. This photography-based exhibition seeks to contrast the awe-inspiring and ever-evolving methods of transportation and achievements in architecture with the very real consequences of technical breakthroughs: a faster, bigger, and more rigorously designed city benefits the quality of life for its inhabitants as much as it produces complexities!

Bringing together works by George Byrne, Jeffrey Milstein, Anthony Redpath, Chris Shepherd, and the late Michael Wolf, this exhibition pays specific attention to capturing human interaction with and within the urban landscape. Whether it be an emotional response to organic presence in a constructed world, seeing familiar scenes anew through unexpected perspectives, or the creation of human connections - however lasting or fleeting - as we co-exist, the presence of life is essential to envisioning and reshaping the cities we inhabit.

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David T. Alexander | Less Trodden Lands Curate My Point of View
November 9 - 29, 2023
1384 Dufferin St. Toronto 
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 9, 5-7 pm

Bau-Xi Gallery is thrilled to present Less Trodden Lands Curate My Point of View, an all-new exhibition by renowned Canadian painter, David T. Alexander.

In the artist’s latest collection for the gallery, Alexander celebrates nearly 60 years of artistry and creative expression, presenting a suite of stunning new landscape pieces. His depictions of real and fictive landscapes are as poignant and powerful as ever, revealing decades-long explorations of geography, nature, and culture.

On his new exhibition, Alexander states,

“The three types of landscapes I engage in are mountains, prairies, and coastal areas. Repeated trips to the Arctic and other remote places have always been of great interest to me, getting to these less trodden places was a complex and fulfilling journey. Hiking, drawing, and recording the vastness of the land over an extended period has always been important to me.

Many of my early trips to remote places were on ships and treks under the midnight sun and the aurora borealis which is impossible to paint. Experiences in these travels have always allowed me to curate a personal point of view towards nature and wildlife.

It’s hard to take in the complexity of a sense of nothingness in a natural desert or grassland of the plains of Saskatchewan or being overwhelmed by the enormity of a huge mountain other than experiencing it in person. I need another lifetime and a half to satisfy my mind about nature.”

David T. Alexander’s work can be found in many prominent public, private and corporate collections throughout the world, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of London, the University of Toronto, Concordia University, the Museum of Art in Iceland, HBC Global Art Collection in New York, and in Embassies in Berlin, Beijing, and Krakow. Corporate and private collections include those in major Canadian cities as well as Dubai, Seoul, New York, Mumbai, and Nice, among several others.

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