Exhibition · Bau-Xi Gallery · Toronto
Nicole Katsuras | The Unknowable Landscape Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM | Artist in Attendance November 5 - 30, 2026 Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin 1384 Dufferin Street, Toronto This November, Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin presents The Unknowable Landscape. Drawing on the shifting rhythms of the natural world and the visual traditions of landscape painting, Katsuras creates atmospheric, textural works that exist between the remembered, the imagined and the unknown. Influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-e prints and the interplay of light, colour and form in J. M. W. Turner’s paintings, this new body of work explores the impermanence of nature and the ways art history shapes our perception of the landscape. Rather than depicting a specific place, Katsuras offers visual cues that invite viewers to draw on their own memories and experiences, allowing each landscape to take shape through personal experience. Artist statement: This new body of work considers landscape as a shared visual language - something understood almost instinctively, regardless of geography. Horizons, trees, skies and shifting terrains differ from place to place, yet the experience of orienting ourselves within them remains familiar: ground, horizon, distance, weather and light. The viewer does not necessarily need to know where they are. The paintings offer visual cues rather than fixed locations - places without coordinates, hovering somewhere between the remembered, the imagined and the unknown. The changing rhythms of the natural world run throughout the work. Influenced by Japanese Ukiyo-e prints and the aesthetic notion of impermanence, the paintings consider nature as something continually shifting, where beauty often lies in its fleeting moments. In “Harvest Tide”, a softly graduated ground and muted palette evoke the subtle transition between seasons. Sculptural passages of paint gather and disperse across the surface, suggesting organic forms caught between emergence and…