Vicki Smith: You Are the Sky. Everything Else is Just the Weather
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Bau-Xi Gallery Vancouver 3045 Granville St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3J9
Vicki Smith, "Hello Sunshine," 2021
oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
Bau-Xi Gallery is pleased to present You Are the Sky. Everything Else is Just the Weather, a highly anticipated exhibition by celebrated contemporary painter, Vicki Smith.
A meditation on the transience of emotions, Vicki Smith's latest series places new emphasis on the interplay of the reflected sky and natural light on the figures of swimmers and the shifting contours of the lake surface.
Capturing these fleeting moments with evocative skill and poignant effect, the complexities of Smith's compositions nuance our understanding of the simplicity of her subject matter.
Rendered in finely textured impasto, luminous, jewel-toned palettes, and layers of expressive brushwork, Smith's bathers, afloat in changeable waters, speak to a distinct sense of interiority.
Transposed onto her canvases, the sunlit ripples and shaded caustics of Smith's source imagery become the medium through which the artist explores the great heights and depths of feeling.
Vicki Smith's paintings articulate this elemental movement to reveal an underlying quality of stillness foundational to the artist's practice. With trademark warmth and insight, Smith invites the audience to immerse themselves in the act of viewing and into a state of grace.
Vicki Smith is a Canadian painter known for her paintings of female figures. Vicki Smith studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art. She lives and works in Toronto.