Richmond Art Gallery
Exhibitions
The Curatorial Mandate of the Richmond Art Gallery is to mount exhibitions of local, Canadian and international stature of interest to our audiences and of importance to the contemporary art community. The Richmond Art Gallery Association sees that the Gallery plays a role in the development of contemporary art in British Columbia and is a cru in the chain of art institutions acrocial linkss Canada. An important part of the Gallery’s curatorial practice is to be aware of work being done in Richmond and the region and to represent it to those constituents.
When reflecting on the Richmond Art Gallery’s contribution to the arts community over the past 25 years, Vancouver-based art critic Robin Laurence writes:
Clearly, as the Gallery’s curatorial mandate has gained maturity,
ambition and profile, public and media interest has also expanded…the
RAG came to be characterized by the sense that emerging artists
might find a foothold here, that mid-career and senior artists
might receive acknowledgement of their achievements, and that collaboration
with other institutions was possible.
– Our Lives and Times: The Richmond Art Gallery at 25 essay for the anniversary publication
April 26 – July 6, 2008
Opening Reception:
Friday, April 25, 6:30-9:30pm
Amy Chang: Donated Organ
In Gallery One
Chang’s ceramic works directly evoke the international organ market. The gangs or groupings of individual pieces are at once attractive and repulsive, playful and unsettling.
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Tomoyo Ihaya: Water, Rice and Bowl
In Gallery One
Ihaya’s mixed media installation presents an assemblage of drawings, stuffed paper figures and found objects developed through the artist’s travels to India and Mexico and her immersion in those cultures.
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Deborah Koenker: Missing/Las Desaparecidas
In Gallery Two
Missing/Las Desaparecidas is the culmination of three years of work by Deborah Koenker in collaboration with residents of the small town of Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, who participated in creating a long textile piece with their embroidered fingerprints.
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