Richmond BC, Canada #richmondartgallerybc
Curated by Zoë Chan
Representing a wide range of perspectives, this group exhibition will present artists who engage with both lived experiences and collective histories in their art practices. Some artists embrace an autobiographical or confessional vein, drawing from memoirs, diaries, and photo-albums, while others mine existing archives and ephemera found in the public realm, employing a more documentary approach.…
Curated by Shaun Dacey
Richmond Art Gallery presents the first North American exhibition of Japanese artist collective SIDE CORE. Known for site-specific projects that blur the boundaries between contemporary art, skate culture, and urban infrastructure, the Tokyo-based collective presents a selection of video works and photographs that explore the often-overlooked spaces of the city—from highways and railroads to drainage tunnels …
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 …
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 …
Alan Wood’s oeuvre reveals a deep fascination with time, process, and documentation as well as a long-term interest in colour and the BC landscape. In Beach Walk, he captures the gradual accumulation of debris on a Gulf Island beach, shaped by the relentless waves that bring marine life and particles from the Gulf onto the sand. Wood methodically maintained …
