For Immediate Release
Summer Group Exhibition
Works by Tony Yin Tak Chu, Katie Cheung,
Tomoyo Ihaya,
Shyh-Charng Lo, Seung Won Suh & June Yun
July 6 - August 24, 2018
Exhibition has been
extended to Friday, August 31, 2018
*Please note there will not be an opening
reception for this exhibition
Art
Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd is
pleased to present a special selection of
works by our gallery-represented artists to
reflect the warmer days of this season. Like
dipping one's toes in a cool, blue pond or
taking in the quiet warmth and glow of an
evening sunset, this year's Summer
Group Exhibition has been
curated to evoke feelings of stillness and
calm, but also to leave viewers feeling
rejuvenated and refreshed.
Inspired by the Chinese
pictograph 流 水 meaning flowing water,
Tony Yin Tak Chu's mixed media works
are translucent, delicate and diaphanous,
having an ethereal quality like water.
“Layering marks in ink on sheets of Mylar
and tracing papers became a metaphor for my
searching for a lost time, unidentifiable
images that ebb and flow...they are a
dreamlike memory for a past that is
unrecognizable.” ● Through much experience
and experimenting, Katie Cheung has
become a master in floral painting. Although
she mostly paints with acrylics on canvas,
she does not subscribe to any particular
style nor does she paint from real or still
life but instead, looks inward to draw on
her own imagination and emotions for
inspiration. ● Throughout her practice, Tomoyo
Ihaya has developed an iconography
that is distinctly her own. In her mixed
media on Japanese paper artworks, her
seemingly simple images have complex
dream-like narratives that often reference
the importance of water – how it nurtures
and sustains us literally and figuratively.
In his art
practice, painter Shyh-Charng Lo has
mainly been preoccupied by one subject
matter: landscape – usually the picturesque
view of mountains, water and trees around
his own neighbourhood of Point Grey in
Vancouver. Using minimal forms and colour,
his serene paintings gently evoke a feeling
of timeless nostalgia. ● Seung Won Suh
was one of the early members of Korea's
first internationally recognized modern art
movement, Tansaekhwa, which translates as
monochrome painting. Characteristic of works
in this movement, Suh's paintings
appear minimal, austere and quietly
meditative with semi-transparent layers of
paint that reveal and conceal, drawing the
viewer in while blurring the lines between
the foreground and background. ●
Introspective and evocative, June Yun's
water-inspired landscape paintings turn the
viewer into a wistful traveller. According
to Yun, “Water's variety of forms
and reflections seem real and unreal, like a
dream or mirage...sometimes it is like
memory that seems clear, but is also misty.”
About the Artists
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.
Katie Cheung was born in Hong Kong
and moved to Canada as a young adult where
she studied fine arts at Langara College
from 1991 to 1993 before graduating from
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in
1996. Cheung has been exhibiting for
over 20 years and her work has been written
about in several articles and reviews. In
2000, she published a catalogue of her
paintings and poems called, Apple from My
Heart.
Accomplished
in various visual arts disciplines and the
recipient of numerous awards, grants and
residencies, including the prestigious VADA
Award from Vancouver Foundation, Tomoyo
Ihaya was born in Tsu-City, Japan and
earned a Bachelor degree in German
Literature from Rikkyo University in Tokyo.
After moving to Canada, Ihaya
studied fine arts at Mount Allison
University in Sackville, New Brunswick,
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in
Vancouver and Capilano College in North
Vancouver before completing a Master of Fine
Arts from the University of Alberta in
Edmonton, Alberta. Ihaya's work can
be found in numerous collections in Canada,
USA, Italy and Asia.
Born in Nagano, Japan and raised in Taiwan,
Shyh-Charng Lo has a Bachelor and a
Master of Arts in Anthropology and
Archaeology from National Taiwan University
and University of British Columbia,
respectively, as well as a Master of Museum
Studies from University of Toronto. After
moving to Vancouver to become a full-time
artist, he has exhibited extensively across
the Pacific in Canada and throughout Asia as
well as publishing several catalogues of his
work. Lo's work can be found in
public collections in Canada, USA, Singapore
and Taiwan.
Suh Seung-Won was born in Seoul,
Korea in 1941 and has been a practising
artist for over five decades. He has
exhibited in a number of key Tansaekhwa
exhibitions in Korea and Japan during the
1970's and 1980's and in 2000, Suh
participated in the Gwangju Biennale and the
LA Art Show in 2015. More recently, Suh had
a group exhibition, “Origin” at Galerie
Perrotin in Paris in 2016 with two fellow
members of the Origin collective who all
later became prominent Tansaekhwa artists.
Currently working and residing in Vancouver,
June Yun was born in China and
attended Anhui Normal University and Central
Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing majoring in
painting before completing a Master of Fine
Arts degree from the University of Newcastle
upon Tyne in the United Kingdom in 2000.
Since then, she has taught in universities
and art institutions in China and Canada and
has exhibited her work internationally in
China, Europe and North America as well as
being the recipient of a number of awards,
grants and residencies.
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