This September, Bau-Xi Gallery is proud to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition for Gavin Lynch, Pixel Estate. This exhibition coincides with the grand opening of Bau-Xi Gallery’s expansive new location on Dufferin Street on September 9, 2023.
Gavin Lynch, Pixel Estate, Mixed Media on Canvas, 72 x 48 inches, 2023 P R E S S R E L E A S E B A U – X I G A L L E R Y
All images are courtesy of Gavin Lynch and Bau-Xi Gallery
ARTIST STATEMENT
“The exhibition is titled ‘Pixel Estate’ and is thus far the cleanest break I’ve made with the distinctly Canadian landscapes and motifs I so regularly engaged with previously. It thematically revolves around a fictional garden ~ perhaps virtual or digital ~ which is a highly designed and manicured space in which we find both extinct and modified species of birds, plants, and mushrooms. In this painterly space, I’ve been exploring the similarities between gardens and landscape painting, two realms of human activity that both mimic and emulate what we consider to be ‘nature’.”
“Both the birds and mushrooms are in states of pictorial mutation, undergoing both exaggerated stretching and compression, awkwardly growing to absurd sizes (for instance, the 8-foot-tall mushroom) and pushing against the compositional constraints of some uniquely tall or long canvases. I think these manipulations speak to the human influence on both individual species and more generally the environment at large; not everything in this garden is well. Perhaps the mushrooms are waiting around to decompose the remains of this place. While the garden is a serene space, the manicured trees, walking paths and stone walls therein remind us that this is indeed a space created and maintained by humans, a space gently disrupted by ripples of digital manipulation and distortion … much like how our perception of nature has slowly been altered by our evolving relationship with screens and technology.”
Gavin Lynch, Decom(poser), Mixed Media on Canvas, 39 x 22 inches, 2023
ABOUT GAVIN LYNCH
Gavin Lynch explores landscape with a contemporary point of view, drawing from environmentally aware fiction, art history, and nature itself.
Gavin Lynch, Mutation, Mixed Media on Canvas, 11.5 x 46 inches, 2023 P R E S S R E L E A S E B A U – X I G A L L E R Y
All images are courtesy of Gavin Lynch and Bau-Xi Gallery
Gavin Lynch, Strange Flock, Mixed Media on Canvas, 41 x 71 inches, 2023
The artist challenges the traditional notion of landscape painting by approaching each work with a digitally informed, collage-like approach. By playing with opposing visual and tactile qualities, Lynch creates a layered and nuanced canvas that plays with the sculptural qualities of paint. The artist looks to climate change and the inherent destruction of our natural environment to depict forest scenes and seascapes, each informed by research expeditions, lived experience, and his fascination with Weird fiction and Eco fiction.
Gavin Lynch completed his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, in 2012. Prior to studying at the University of Ottawa, Lynch completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, in 2009.
In 2014, the artist was one of fifteen finalists competing in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Works by Gavin Lynch were exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art from September 9 to October 8, 2014. The competition looked to award emerging painters who champion their medium in new and innovative ways.
Gavin Lynch, Ruby In The Sky, Mixed Media on Canvas, 11.5 x 23 inches, 2023 P R E S S R E L E A S E B A U – X I G A L L E R Y
All images are courtesy of Gavin Lynch and Bau-Xi Gallery
Works by the artist can be found in collections including Royal Bank of Canada; Toronto Dominion Bank; Scotiabank; City of Ottawa Public Art Collection; University of Toronto; Simon Fraser University Permanent Collection, B.C. Hall; Air Canada; among others.
Gavin Lynch, Haze, Greys, Blues, Greens, Mixed Media on Canvas, 35 x 54 inches, 2023
Gavin Lynch has been represented by Bau-Xi Gallery since 2021.
The Pixel Estate exhibition coincides with the grand opening of Bau-Xi Gallery’s expansive new location on Dufferin Street on September 9, 2023. In tandem with Barbara Cole’s concurrent exhibition, Between Worlds, it is the first formal exhibition to open at the new location.
Gavin Lynch, Quarry Trip, Mixed Media on Canvas, 48 x 48 inches, 2023 P R E S S R E L E A S E B A U – X I G A L L E R Y
All images are courtesy of Gavin Lynch and Bau-Xi Gallery
ABOUT BAU-XI GALLERY
BAU-XI GALLERY is one of Canada’s most established art galleries – founded in 1965 – Bau-Xi Gallery has spaces in Toronto and Vancouver. Bau-Xi Gallery acquired Foster/White Gallery (Seattle) in 2001, most recently acquiring Canada House Gallery (Banff) in 2018.
July 2023 marked another milestone for Bau-Xi Gallery, as it opened its doors to a new Toronto flagship location in one of Toronto’s fastest growing arts neighbourhoods. The new location offers over 22,500 sq. ft. of gallery space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary painting, photography, mixed media, and sculptural works by Canadian and International artists.
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
