Seeing Through
UPCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION:
October 19 – 31, 2024
BAU-XI GALLERY – 3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception Saturday, October 19, 2-4 PM
Artist in Attendance
Bau-Xi Vancouver proudly presents Seeing Through, the new solo exhibition of works from Vancouver based artist Eric Louie.
Louie’s signature undulating, foil-like forms are digitally inspired yet entirely analog, painted in oil on canvas with no actual metallic paint. The works themselves are precise and cerebral, and possess an inherent flow; the new compositions lead the eye slowly around the canvas, meandering through memory and time and encouraging a less harried approach to thought and to life.
Artist Statement:
A road trip of the mind, trying to capture moments or encounters along that imagined journey within each painting. Almost living and yet completely inanimate at the same time, those subjects in each work take the viewer to a different portal or place in time. Somewhat symbolic and operating in that pseudo-digital realm, where painting attempts to transcribe and find some relationship with that digital world we all live in part-time.
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Becoming
October 5 – 17, 2023
BAU-XI GALLERY – 3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
My latest show approaches ideas surrounding the four seasons, perpetual change and cyclical nature of life. Different temperatures found in light and colour exemplify each passing moment depicted. The connection between the changing seasons, their varying colours and our projected memories associated with them is where the work touches most eloquently. Each painting involves some interaction and reaction between the imposing forms inhabiting the spaces I’ve created. Some semblance of the elements comes out in each scene where I’m focused on pulling that “feeling” out of myself.
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Hide & Seek
October 1 – 13, 2022
BAU-XI GALLERY – 3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
The reworking of canvases has always been a common, natural, and even essential element of an artist’s practice. Bau-Xi Gallery presents an extraordinary collection composed entirely of newly reworked abstract paintings by Vancouver artist Eric Louie. In his signature graphic, sculptural style, Eric rethinks his organic abstract forms with new colour, line and balance, fine-tuned to reflect the process and accumulation of learning along life’s journey. The new paintings gain fortitude from the energy of the originals, which lie dormant under the surface for a later discovery.
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Remembered Futures
November 6 – 18, 2021
BAU-XI GALLERY – 3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Eric Louie calls on us to consider memories of the past as well as the unformed future in “Remembered Futures”, his collection of dynamic and shimmering new abstract paintings.
Artist’s exhibition statement:
My current inspiration is the idea of gathering and synthesizing past thoughts and ideas to formulate or imagine the future. I’ve been thinking about the notion of creating memories, especially ones made while on vacation or on an adventure: employing moments in the future to collect and save the past in a digital moment. These new paintings transport the viewer to different imagined places – places fabricated from past experiences, filtered, idealized and hyperbolized to some utopian end.
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Finding a Way
September 9 – 22, 2020
BAU-XI GALLERY – 3045 Granville St, Vancouver
Vancouver-based painter Eric Louie’s latest exhibition, Finding A Way, introduces a new series of intimate small-scale works that explore ideas of symbolism and semiotics while delving deeper into a new format for his ongoing consideration of imagined spaces.
In his large-scale canvasses, the artist’s distinct future-forward aesthetic and formalist sensibility emerges from his precariously balanced assemblages — charged with dynamic tension, and rife with colourful shapes — they are at once subject to and defiant of visual gravity. The rich interplay of Louie’s forms, shaded with brightly-hued gradients and accented with chrome-like effects, appears both static and in perpetual motion, synthetic-looking yet singularly organic.
With an expanding painterly vernacular inspired by revisiting past works spanning the duration of his practice, Louie’s use of symmetry and canonical forms communicate subconscious associations. Ever-present semblances of the familiar, figments of still-lifes, traces of figures and approximations of landscapes emerge from Louie’s evocative compositions, resisting interpretation and beckoning the viewer into the richly layered virtual worlds of his paintings.
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Awakening
April 4-20, 2019
Bau-Xi Upper Gallery, 3045 Granville Street, Vancouver
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 6-9 pm. Artist in Attendance
Vancouver-based painter Eric Louie’s inaugural solo exhibition AWAKENING, at Bau-Xi Vancouver, focuses on his ongoing exploration of the interplay of forms in states of transition.
The artist’s distinct future-forward aesthetic and formalist sensibility informs the richly layered virtual worlds of his paintings—rife with colourful shapes, shaded with brightly-hued gradients and accented with chrome-like effects to reinforce a palpable materiality. Louie’s forms are at once static and in perpetual motion, synthetic-looking yet singularly organic, imbuing the flatness of the two-dimensional surface with emphatic dimensionality.
These precariously balanced assemblages are charged with dynamic tension and visual potential, evidence of the artist’s practiced technique and deft hand as he skillfully manipulates the quality of light and spatial depth within his canvasses to enthralling effect. Ever-present semblances of the familiar — figments of still-lifes, traces of figures and approximations of landscapes — emerge from Louie’s evocative compositions as they resist interpretation and beckon the viewer towards abstraction.
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