Opening
reception on Friday, February 7, 2014, 3-6pm.
Artist will be in attendance.
We are pleased to debut Katie Cheung’s new
works in her second solo exhibition, Thousand
Dreams of Flowers, at Art Beatus (Vancouver).
Katie’s paintings are an exploration of colour and
form that result in vibrant, emotive canvases, and
she has developed a visual language that brings into
play a relationship between representation and
abstraction. Her goal is to bring pleasure to the
visual experience and convey a sense of delight in
the world around us.
–Keith Wallace, Associate Director/Curator at
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and
Editor-in-Chief at Yishu: Journal of Contemporary
Chinese Art
Katie Cheung is a soulful painter imbued with
the Romantic notion of drawing upon imagination and
emotion as sources of artistic inspiration. In her
collection of paintings of peonies in Thousand
Dreams of Flowers, she insisted upon painting
not from real life but from out of her own imagination
in what she describes as an “attempt to recreate the
artist’s world within” by “call[ing] upon the beauty
of flowers to express my inner emotions.”
Katie approaches each piece as a separate work
independent of the previous one, resulting in a
diversity of stylistic elements and emotional tone
among her paintings. Some are quietly serene, some are
delightfully ethereal, and some are mysterious while
others are bursting with colourful vitality. Lyrical
and lively with intuitive use of colours and
brushstrokes, Katie’s painterly style embodies the
experimental as well as the experiential.
No matter how stylistically diverse the flower motif
is depicted, all the paintings evoke a sense of beauty
and sensuality, as if one can almost smell its scent
lingering from out of the painting. Although Katie
Cheung may not paint from real life, she is still able
to seemingly breathe life into her paintings.
Vancouver-based artist Katie Cheung was born
in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada in 1969. She
studied fine arts at Langara College before graduating
from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Katie has
been exhibiting her work for over 20 years and has
published a catalogue of her paintings and poems
titled, Apple from My Heart.
For more information, please visit our website at www.artbeatus.com
or call the gallery at 1 (604) 688-2633.
Art
Beatus, with a location in Vancouver, Canada and two
locations in Hong Kong, showcases international art
with a focus on contemporary Chinese art. Art Beatus
(Vancouver) is located in the Nelson Square Office
Tower at 108 – 808 Nelson Street in Vancouver, BC.
Art Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd. is open Monday
to Friday, 10am-6pm and is closed on weekends and
holidays. Underground and street parking is available.
Free admission.
For more information, please contact Media
Relations, Tamla Mah or Ellinda Siu by email:
info@artbeatus.com or telephone: 604-688-2633.
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