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Current Exhibitions

  • Exhibition
  • Persimmon Blackbridge

    Speak No (emergency)

    January 18, 2025 - March 23, 2025

    Curated by Sean Lee

    In this stunning installation Speak No (emergency), artist Persimmon Blackbridge urgently responds to the devastation of and despair around climate change. Covering the gallery walls with dozens of handfashioned figures, she creates a desolate, desperate army who have come together in the face of rampant forest fires, polluted oceans, and climate denial. Blackbridge’s raw, frenetic …

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  • Ari Bayuaji, Emily Hermant, Caroline Monnet, Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Cheryl Wong

    Dear Plastic

    January 18, 2025 - March 23, 2025

    Curated by Zoë Chan

    The five featured artists of Dear Plastic straddle the divide between what is considered artificial versus natural in their engagement with plastic. They clearly delight in the potential of plastic as artistic material, which they reuse, repurpose, or reimagine to fashion visually arresting works. The thought-provoking pieces in this exhibition avoid a straightforward environmentalist stance or …

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  • Off-Site
  • Cherry Archer

    Membranes and Pith 305 & Reverie 25

    April 15, 2024 - March 15, 2025

    The Aberdeen Canada Line Station Art Wrap is presented in partnership with City of Richmond Public Art.

    What emotions or memories can food unearth? What do our meals reveal about our sense of belonging, family and history? In Membranes and Pith 305 and Reverie 25, Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist Cherry Archer utilizes the evocative powers of culinary plants deeply rooted in

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  • Off-Site
  • HONG WO 同和

    October 19, 2024 - May 30, 2025

    Guest Curator: Mawenzhu Shi 史马文竹

    Hong Wo & Co. General Merchants and its owner Ling Lam have a rich history that intersects with the development of Richmond. In the late nineteenth century, Ling Lam, a young immigrant from China, arrived in Victoria. At this time, the Chinese Immigration Act was in place, a discriminatory law requiring all migrants from China …

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  • Off-site: City Hall Galleria
  • Sam Kaplan
    Marion Webber

    Vistas of Solitude

    January 9, 2025 - March 3, 2025

    Vistas of Solitude brings together the works of Sam Kaplan and Marion Webber, two artists who explore the serene beauty of nature through distinct landscapes. Their work evokes a sense of solitude and the profound connection between humans and the natural environment.

    Kaplan’s acrylic landscapes reflect a lifelong relationship with nature, shaped by childhood experiences on the North Shore and

  • Exhibition
  • Off-site: The Annex Gallery
  • Pierre Luigi Vassura

    Reimaging Myth and Symbol

    January 7, 2025 - May 11, 2025

    This exhibition honours the legacy of Pierre Luigi Vassura (1935–2024) through selected pieces from two captivating enamel painting series–Polychromatic Medusa Analogies (n.d.) and Chinese Zodiac Character Analogies (n.d.). These works delve into themes of mythology, cultural symbolism, and transformation.

    In Polychromatic Medusa Analogies, Vassura explores the complexity of Medusa’s narrative, a figure from Greek mythology often depicted as

  • Exhibition
  • Collection Close-up: Port San Juan by Jane Wolsak

    January 18, 2025 - March 23, 2025

    Collecting debris from beaches is something I have always done…I position them intuitively, allowing the forms to suggest their own arrangements. I have tried to acknowledge the powerful sense of time and place which resides in these fragments.

    – Jane Wolsak

    In Port San Juan, Jane Wolsak explores the relationship between natural objects and their inherent narratives. The artist

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