Hues of a New Shore
We are artists. When we move to a new country, the experience is inevitably charged with emotion excitement, uncertainty, anxiety, or joy. The one thing that should never happen is silence.
In the process of migration and resettlement, many artists find their voices momentarily suspended. Cultural differences, daily pressures, language barriers, and shifts in audience context can disrupt the dialogue between hand and canvas.
At the same time, our original audiences-now part of a growing Asian immigrant community-often lose a shared space for cultural and spiritual conversation.
Years later, a group of immigrant artists came together again and realized that we are far from indifferent to this land. We record the changing seasons, the growth and falling of leaves, the movement of tides, and the vast openness of fields. Our reflections-of love, struggle, memory, and belonging-are painted between sky and sea.
Presented on the eve of the 2026 Lunar New Year, this exhibition is not only a showcase of artworks, but also a New Year's greeting from immigrant artists, offered through color, form, and time.
DOU Bu
YANG (Andrew) Heng
DOU Bu is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, performance, video, and experimental art. He has been actively engaged in the contemporary art scene in China for many years, presenting solo exhibitions, group shows, and performance works across a range of art spaces and international
His artistic practice consistently explores themes of memory, identity, and social experience, with a strong emphasis on process-based and embodied forms of expression. Characterized by a cross-disci-plinary approach and an experimental visual language, his work reflects an ongoing inquiry into the relationships between body, time, and lived experience.
Dou's practice is more introspective and conceptually oriented, centering on themes of time, memory, and disappearance. He adopts fragile, everyday natural forms-such as leaves and branches-as recurring motifs, deliberately avoiding grand narratives or fixed conceptual conclusions. Instead, his work seeks traces of existence through repetition, documentation, and the transformation of materials.
Spanning painting, drawing, performance, and video, his practice foregrounds process and uncertainty, treating overlooked moments as the substance of creation itself. In this exhibition, Bu Dou's works unfold in a near-whispering register-not as declarations, but as acts of preservation-inviting viewers to quietly re-sense the weight of time and the passing of life.
YANG (Andrew) Hengis a painter and educator based in Canada. He currently serves as the Vice Principal of SA Institute of Montreal and is a board member of the Atlantic Centre for Creativity (ACC). He received formal art training in China and has taught art at the post-secondary level for many years.
His artistic practice bridges traditional techniques and contemporary approaches, focusing on land-scape, nature, and multicultural experience. His works explore the emotional and visual tension between wildness and tranquility, shaped by his engagement with the natural environment. His artworks have been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and Asia.
Yang's work draws primarily from the natural landscapes of Canada's East Coast and Quebec, developed through on-site observation and reflective reworking. His paintings continuously record changes in light, season, and terrain, focusing on moments such as early spring thaw, summer lake bays, coastal edges, and the quiet margins of urban space-scenes that are ordinary yet charged with perceptual tension. Through loose, rhythmically driven brushwork, he translates clarity, warmth, and movement found in nature into layered chromatic structures imbued with emotional resonance. Moving fluidly between representation and abstraction, his practice emphasizes the rhythm of light, the breathing of color fields, and a bodily mode of seeing, resulting in a contemporary landscape language that is both restrained and deeply vital.