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For Immediate Release
Ebb and Flow
Works by Tony Yin Tak Chu
March 2 - April 20, 2018
Opening Reception | Friday,
March 2, 3 - 6pm
Meet the Artist | Tony
Yin Tak Chu will be in attendance
Art
Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd is
very pleased to present Ebb
and Flow, an exhibition of mixed
media installation of paintings and drawings
by local artist, Tony
Yin Tak Chu. Originally trained in
drawing and painting, Chu worked
as a draughtsperson at an architectural and
engineering firm in Hong Kong before moving
to Canada where, in 2011, he had a public
art installation at Lansdowne Mall in
Richmond, BC that serendipitously changed
the trajectory of his art practice.
According to Chu,
“Installation art offers different
dimensions as the viewers can walk through
it, look at the work from different angles,
through the spaces and experience the
tension within the art pieces.” Since 2014, Chu has
been working on an ongoing series of works
titled, Liu Shui,
based on the Chinese pictographic words 流 水
which translates as flowing
water. This series is an installation
consisting of a number of scrolls made of
mixed media drawings and paintings using
ink, drafting pens and water soluble oil
pastels on tracing paper instead of more
traditional materials such as silk or
mulberry paper.
 Sheer, light
and translucent, the drawings and paintings
as well as the tracing paper substrate have
a diaphanous, delicate quality like water.
Simultaneously, the works are textured with
mysterious layers that veil and unveil with
the rounded folds of the installation
resembling the peaks and troughs of water
ripples. Through Chu's
work, the viewer is presented with the
abstract, dynamic and sculptural qualities
of “flowing water”.
Born in Hong Kong, Tony
Yin Tak Chu moved to
Canada in 1996. Soon after settling into
Vancouver, Chu attended
Langara College where he earned a Diploma in
Fine Arts in 2004 and then went on to
complete a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in
Visual Arts in 2006 at Emily Carr Institute
of Arts and Design. Since his graduation, Chu has
had various solo and group exhibitions
locally as well as in the United States and
Mexico. He has also exhibited his work as
public art in Vancouver and Richmond, and in
the Toronto and Edmonton transit systems.
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