Gao CHEN
陳高
Gao CHEN was born in Jiangsu of China in 1946 and grew up in Shanghai, China. He started his art career as an art designer at Shanghai Museum of Arts And Crafts. CHEN immigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1989 and has since been working as a freelance painter. His past exhibitions includes: September 2009《Solo exhibition》Basic inquiry studios & Gallery Vancouver; May 2015《Joint exhibition》
Omega Gallery Vancouver. He also held exhibitions for ArtRich in 2015 and 2019 at Richmond Art Gallery in Richmond,《The Charm of Gardens》at Dr.Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and the 2019 Vancouver Arts Carnival ” Splendour of Canada” Paintings Exhibition in Vancouver.
Gao CHEN joined the Vancouver Painters Association in 1990 and has been an artist commissioned by Vancouver Artland Holdings Ltd. to paint 30 landscape paintings for its flagship Downtown apartment building in 1991. CHEN is known for his European classical painting style and later switched to the impressionist style. His paintings consist primarily of portraits and landscapes.
CHEN’s paintings are sincere and true to life, shows his poetic touch and his pursuit of an ideal life. The simplicity and brevity in his oil painting, the use of light and bright contrasting colors have made his paintings very popular. During CHEN’s 26 years of painting career in Canada, he has created modern paintings that have received broad acclaim both in Canada and China. The ” Splendour of Canada’ exhibition featured Gao CHEN’s landscape painting in the theme of an art gallery. It vividly draws the various visitors in different ages, clothing, gestures and facial expression to reflect their true feelings while attending the exhibition. This painting is appealing as it allows viewers to imagine themselves enjoying the exhibition in the art gallery.
陳高畢業於上海交通大學藝術系油畫研究班，曾任職上海工藝美術研究所美術設計。
1989年移民加拿大，現為加拿大公民自由職業畫家; 1990年起為溫哥華西區畫家協會會員; 1991年受邀為溫哥華Artland Holdings Ltd特聘畫家,該公司收藏了他30幅作品。
2014年9月《陳高個展》在 溫哥華Basic inquiry studios & Gallery 、2015月5月《陳高聯展》在溫哥華Omega Gallery 、2015年7月 在烈治文《ArtRich2015》Richmond Art Gallery、2018年7月《園林之魅》個展在溫哥華中山公園畫廊 、2019年5月溫哥華藝術嘉年華《加拿大風情》畫展在國際畫廊、 2019年12月《ArtRich 2019》在烈治文Richmond Art Gallery展出 。
陳高的繪畫是歐洲古典寫實風格，自2015起轉為印象寫意畫風，作品以人物及 風景寫生畫為主，他力圖在平凡，普通的生活場面中發掘詩意，以樸實，真摯的 抒情打動人心，通過對現實的描繪，展現出對理想生活的追求。他的油畫語言單 純簡練，色彩明快優雅，有很強的形式感。
他是一位隱形畫家，居住溫哥華30年一直潛心從事繪畫創作，繪製了一批極具水準的現代風俗畫，受到加拿大和中國繪畫權威人士的好評。在《加拿大風情》畫展中展出的是他以藝術館情景為主題，巧妙地將參觀者 的身姿，表情及他們多彩的裝束與展牆上的繪畫相呼應，帶給我們一種身臨其境 與畫作息息相通的感受。
