It is with great excitement that we announce the opening of Bi Yuan Cheng’s solo exhibition, Coastal Visions, at The Avenue Gallery. From September 26 – October 10, 2024, the gallery will play host to these exalted and enchanting landscape works. Dazzling backlit sunset beaches, rivers, creeks, and waterfalls transport us to the West Coast of our imaginations.
You’re invited to…
BI YUAN CHENG
COASTAL VISIONS
SEPTEMBER 26 – OCTOBER 10
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West Coast Twilight
Acrylic on canvas 40 x 40
$6000
We are pleased to welcome Bi Yuan Cheng for his ninth solo exhibition at The Avenue Gallery. In this series, Bi continues to capture the beauty of the Canadian landscape with calligraphic brushwork, mastery of light and refined use of colour.
Fall in Edith Cavell
Acrylic on canvas 48 x 36
$6750
“While almost every western painting is plotted on the vanishing-point perspective system, Bi arranges his planes like stage sets with empty, mystic spaces between. He told me that in western perspective, the farther elements become smaller, but in his paintings they don’t. His compositions are haunting, or immense.”
– Robert Amos (Times Colonist, October 2013)
Late Night
Acrylic on canvas 30 x 48
$5460
“Although he has the skill and training to paint in any style, Cheng is most passionate about landscapes; his interpretations of West Coast wildness have a powerful verisimilitude, at the same time as his profound early training introduces hints of calligraphy and ink-wash Chinese nature paintings.”
– Robert Moyes (Boulevard Magazine, October 2013)
Fall in Creek
Acrylic on canvas 40 x 60
$9500
“[Bi] begins each work with a mid-toned ground, often fading this colour across the picture plane. The subtle richness of these colours bears close study. Years of practice with a pencil gave him a keen eye for tonal gradations and his ability to convey depth from background to foreground is sublime.”
– Robert Amos (Times Colonist, October 2013)
Watch the Seasons
Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30
$4850
“While his subjects may appear ‘realistic,’ a glance at his colour choices will tell you that his paintings are artistic inventions concocted from a blend of memory, imagination and experience. Bi told me that he had an excellent education in colour, but I think that colourists like him are born, not made.”
– Robert Amos (Times Colonist, October 2013)
West Coast Sunset
Acrylic on canvas 48 x 48
$9000
“Bi Yuan Cheng is a seeker of the truth. Not truth in facts, but in feeling; not in evidence, but in experience. His pursuit as an artist is to convey the world as he sees it and share its impact with the viewer, to impart the sense of wonder it brings to him.”
– Aaren Madden (Focus Magazine, November 2017)
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We look forward to seeing you for Coastal Visions on through October 10!
Sincerely,
Kathleen, Catherine, Barb, Kathi, Patricia & Jessie
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