Artist

Wong, Paul (Huang, Bau-Xi)

Title

No One Thing

Technique

ink

Date

2000

Dimensions

36.83cm height x 22.86cm width

Type

drawing

Accession Number

2022.24.1

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of Terence Russell

Born in 1933 in Guangdong province, Huang was the oldest of three sons. At age 16, he had to grow up fast when his father was imprisoned following the 1949 Communist revolution. In 1956, he was 23 when he arrived in Vancouver. In addition to his day job, Huang took classes at the Vancouver School of Art (Now Emily Carr University of Art and Design). His painting teacher was Ron Stonier, a Vancouver modernist painter. Stonier suggested to Huang that he open an art gallery.Huang already had already established a reputation in the city’s art community as a promising abstract painter.In 1963, his painting was one of five singled out in an exhibition in the Seattle Art Museum by Clement Greenberg, the leading art critic in the U.S. Huang also won a prize at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Bau-Xi Gallery also showed Huang’s paintings under the name Paul C. Wong. The middle initial helped differentiate him from the Vancouver multimedia artist Paul Wong. Bau-Xi means “great gift or fortune” in Mandarin. It’s Huang’s own transliteration of his first name Boo-Si.