Richmond BC, Canada #richmondartgallerybc
Guest curated by Makiko Hara, independent curator and Nozomu Ogawa, Director of Ongoing Association
Ongoing / Pacific Crossings is the culmination of a seven–year cultural exchange between Tokyo’s Art Center Ongoing (ACO), Richmond Art Gallery, and guest curator Makiko Hara. Since 2019, the partners have facilitated sustained exchanges between Vancouver–and Tokyo–based artists and curators, fostering long–term dialogue and collaboration. This …
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 …
Fruitful Loop brings together a selected body of paintings by artist Kia Eriksson that explore attention, renewal, and the everyday practice of being present. Through diverse portraits, abstract geometric forms, and an abundance of strawberries—a vibrant symbol for grounding in the present moment—Eriksson invites viewers to pause, notice, feel, and perhaps even find joy in something familiar, seen anew.
Drawing …
Combining technical precision with contemplative lyricism, artist Zhong Liu’s landscape photographs explore the delicate balance between permanence and transformation. Captured across British Columbia, Alberta, and Antarctica, his images transfigure mountains, forests, water, and sky into studies of space, light, and the passage of time. Faced with these vast landscapes, Liu reflects on nature’s majesty and humanity’s relative insignificance.
Guided by …
This compact, tactile ceramic work invites visitors to experience it from every angle. While deceptively simple, at closer glance it resembles an artifact unearthed from the ocean, with fossilized remains encased in stone over time. Wrapped around the piece’s slab-like form is the embedded figure of a fish and hand-painted and stylized sakura (cherry blossoms). This lyrical entwining evokes movement …
