Eric Louie: AWAKENING
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Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver 3045 Granville St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3J9
Eric Louie, "Gold Room, XI," 2018
24" x 24"
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, deft hand and skillful manipulation of the quality of light and spatial depth within his compositions 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 forms as they resist interpretation and beckon towards abstraction.
Eric Louie holds a B.F.A from the Alberta College of Art and Design, where he was awarded the prestigious Jason Lang Scholarship. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including CIBC, Encana Energy, NBC Studios, Paramount and MGM Pictures, as well as the City of Calgary.Louie has shown his work nationally over the past decade in more than 25 exhibitions.