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Artists were asked to express what keeps you up at night? What scares you? What excites you? What art expresses your inner landscape that is accessed in the intimacy of the nighttime? We can travel to a different world at night in our dreams and awaken our imagination.
For this exhibition, we were looking for art of any medium, 2d or 3d, realism or abstraction, that expressed art from the dark, of the night and from our depths.
Show Runs: Oct. 4th-Nov. 10th.
Gala Opening: Oct. 5th, 2-4pm
Summer Blue Series – Watercolour Paintings by Fucai Zhao
Lipont Gallery is presenting dozens of Chinese artist Fucai Zhao’s recent watercolour paintings to the audience in the Greater Vancouver area for the first time. Zhao graduated from the China Academy of Art and is an art professor. He is an established watercolour painter. This exhibition features works he created during his midsummer stay in Vancouver this year, based on the city’s characteristics, cultural features, and natural scenery.
“Vancouver’s pleasant climate and unique urban environment gave me the urge to paint. I painted several sketches of street scenes in Downtown Vancouver. Watercolour landscape sketches can free oneself, and creation can allow artists to think more fully. My watercolour works show the beauty in nature. People crave for beauty while being caught in the daily grind of the mundane. I just want to provide viewers with some beautiful reverie and comfortable mood through the expression of poetic watercolour paintings. Vancouver’s public transportation system, fire protection facilities, road signs and traffic lights are its unique city symbols.”
Zhao’s works absorb the composition form and meaning of Chinese painting and strive for realism in terms of expression techniques. This creative combination of Chinese and Western watercolour painting and the changes in modern people’s aesthetic vision have made him begin to reconsider the new meaning of composition representation, which has prompted him to present a more holistic, simpler, stronger and more concentrated aesthetic feature in the composition form, which is pleasing to the eyes and heart of the viewer. The vivid and lively colours, the hearty and relaxed pictures, and the watercolour paintings that blend water and colour can be as objective and realistic as Western oil paintings and can also have the freehand and lyrical style of Chinese ink paintings.
The exhibition opens on Thursday October 10th, 2024, between 7:00pm to 9:00pm to the public at Lipont Gallery, Rm218 (no elevator), 4211 No. 3 Road Richmond, BC.
The exhibition will be on view from October 10th to November 8th, 2024, Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm with extended hours to 8pm on Tuesdays. Free admission.
Experience the freedom and fun of making art using an old book as the jumping off point! When you alter a book, you transform it, changing its appearance and meaning. It can be painted, cut, folded, collaged, rubber-stamped or otherwise adorned. In this four-hour workshop, you will learn a variety of techniques. All are welcome, from beginners to experienced creators.
The Nanaimo Arts Council is announcing our 26th Annual Nanaimo Artwalk, taking place November 23 & 24, 2024. We invite folks from all over the island to participate, and can’t wait to see you there.
