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Online Exhibition
Simone Guo
Paintings by Simone Guo
July 22 - September 30, 2022
Art
Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd is
very pleased to present an online solo
exhibition of paintings by local artist Simone
Guo.
Over the past few years, Simone Guo has
been developing and redefining her own
visual vocabulary in landscape painting,
what the artist describes as “hover[ing]
between landscape and lyrical abstraction.”
Guo's constructed worlds seem
familiar yet fantastically otherworldly,
inviting yet mysterious, and serene yet
dynamic.
Born into an artistic family in China, Guo
grew up practising and studying Chinese
brush painting where this influence could be
found presently in her spontaneous, gestural
brushstrokes. Although she often paints on
square canvases, her compositions are also
reminiscent of the vertical panoramic
perspective in traditional Chinese landscape
painting such as Für Elise and Enigma.
An intuitive and skilled colourist, Guo's
palette often juxtaposes colours that one
doesn't usually imagine would go together
yet they create a feeling of blithe harmony
such as the peach coloured outlines around
the green foliage in Sing, The Spring.
However, this levity is also grounded by an
element of the sublime with sheer and
treacherous looking rock faces and cliffs
and dark and mysterious forests, yet one
still feels drawn in to explore and to
escape into the worlds in Guo's
paintings.
Simone Guo was born in China and
studied at Central Academy of Fine Arts in
Beijing where she completed a Bachelor's and
a Master's degree in Art History. In 2004,
she earned another Master of Art History
degree from the University of Victoria in
British Columbia, Canada. Guo has
had a number of solo exhibitions and has
participated in several group exhibitions in
Taiwan, China, Japan as well as in Canada,
and her work can be found in collections in
Asia and North America. She currently lives
and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Please contact Art Beatus (Vancouver)
for more information about the artist and
these works.
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Art Beatus, with a location in Vancouver,
Canada and two locations in Hong Kong, showcases
international art with a focus on contemporary
Chinese art. Please use this information in any of
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Visual material is available upon request. For more
information, please contact Media Relations, Ellinda
Siu.
Art Beatus (Vancouver) acknowledges we are
located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded
territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh
(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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