{"id":2019,"date":"2012-11-07T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:34:14","slug":"artcondos-art-we-love-joy-by-kai-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/2012\/11\/07\/artcondos-art-we-love-joy-by-kai-chan\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTCONDOS: ART WE LOVE   JOY by Kai Chan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Joy-by-Kai-Chan.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2020\" title=\"Joy by Kai Chan\" src=\"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Joy-by-Kai-Chan.jpeg\" alt=\"ArtCondos\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Joy-by-Kai-Chan.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Joy-by-Kai-Chan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Joy-by-Kai-Chan-299x224.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We dropped into the nearby David Kaye Gallery the other day to see new work by the celebrated Chinese-Canadian artist Kai Chan.\u00a0 Chan, who was born in China in 1940 and has lived in Toronto since 1966, is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, and this latest Toronto exhibition serves as an exciting introduction to the deft, delicate, witty, lyrical work of this always surprising artist.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, we were impressed\u2014and delighted\u2014by his inventiveness with materials.\u00a0 There seems to be nothing Chan cannot and will not use in the making of his art.\u00a0 A list of his \u201cingredients\u201d would have to include: paper, wood, bamboo, thread, shells, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, plastic, wire, plywood, cardboard, glass beads, buttons, string, cloth, twigs, glue, pigment, toothpicks, incense and grass clippings.<\/p>\n<p>The work shown here\u2014entitled Joy\u2014was made this year.\u00a0 It is constructed of bamboo, dye and oil paint and evokes everything from a fan to a footbridge over a stream.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Chan\u2019s exhibition is at the David Kaye Gallery at 1092 Queen Street West (at Dovercoirt) and runs until December 2.\u00a0 Works range in price from $400 to $6000.\u00a0 416-532-9075.\u00a0 www.davidkayegallery.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We dropped into the nearby David Kaye Gallery the other day to see new work by the celebrated Chinese-Canadian artist Kai Chan.\u00a0 Chan, who was born in China in 1940 and has lived in Toronto since 1966, is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, and this latest Toronto exhibition serves as an exciting introduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[199,318,439,248,320,319,246,440,215,255,236],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwelove","tag-art-condos","tag-art-we-love","tag-art-condos-construction-updates","tag-gary-michael-dault","tag-joy","tag-kai-chan","tag-queen-and-dovercourt","tag-queen-street-west","tag-queen-west-galleries","tag-toronto-galleries","tag-triangle-west-development"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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