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For his first solo exhibition in Canada, Lam Tung Pang presents a multifaceted body of work that spans the three-and-a-half years since his move from Hong Kong to Richmond. Since relocating, Lam has been developing a new visual vernacular that reflects the deconstruction and reconstruction of his own sense of self. Rooted in the intimate realities of leaving home and …
Richmond Art Gallery Associationʼs annual art auction, launches online and on view in the gallery on October 24, featuring a diverse range of artworks available for bidding, with select works reserved for a live auction at A Winter’s Toast, our annual fundraising banquet on November 21. Highlights include artworks by Diyan Achjadi, Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, Catherine Andrews, Jo-Anne Balcaen, Persimmon …
Rewilding (Autumn & Spring) considers the disappearance of the once-ubiquitous Vancouver Special within our changing urban landscape. Proliferating in the 1970s, the Vancouver Special was a quick and relatively affordable housing style that developed throughout the Lower Mainland and became associated with immigrant and working-class families. Because of their proliferation, homogeneous design, and use by marginalized residents, this architectural style …
Secret Ingredients began as a call by the artist for the public to submit messages they found difficult to express directly to someone in their life, but felt ready to share. These messages were transformed into decorated cakes and delivered to the intended recipients as an edible form of communication. To date, over seventy-five messages have been submitted and fifteen …
No Place utilizes hand-cut collage, assemblage, and re-photography to forge layered connections between architecture, history, and ideology. The resulting composition serves as a speculative reconstruction that reimagines both physical and ideological spaces.
Brutalist architecture once symbolized a progressive egalitarian society. Adopted widely by European Communist states, its raw, uncompromising aesthetic embodied a collective utopian vision. Over time, however, many of …
Bringing together paintings and mixed-media works by teenage artist Fiona Huang, Free in the Chaos celebrates experimentation, play, and the freedom to follow intuition in art making. Inspired by graffiti, street art, and popular culture, Huang uses bold colours and gestural brushwork to layer imagery and text across canvas and found materials, building a fantastical world of her own.
Influenced …
Every fall, Richmond Art Gallery collaborates with Aspire Richmond to present an exhibition at the City Hall Galleria, celebrating the creativity and talents of participants in Aspire Richmond’s Avenues day program.
This year’s exhibition, Inspired Connections, showcases a vibrant collection of mixed-media artworks that capture what inspires the Aspire Richmond participants—their connections to place, memory, culture, and lived …
Richmond Art Gallery is thrilled to launch a new outdoor initiative, which will present annually a new large-scale banner highlighting the artwork of a local Indigenous artist. Installed on its exterior walls facing the busy Minoru Boulevard, the first banner in this series is by Manuel Axel Strain, a gifted artist of Musqueam, Simpcw, and Syilx descent. The banner displays …
I painted landscapes, but it was not just about the trees and the houses. I do not just paint what I saw. Personally, I added some imagination…what would happen if there was an object in the sky?
– 李錦濤 Laurens Lee
In 《有飛行物的風景》Landscape With Flying Object, Burnaby-based artist 李錦濤 Laurens Lee transforms a quiet suburban street into a …
