Richmond BC, Canada #richmondartgallerybc
14″W x 15″H x 4″D
100% heavy cotton canvas
Special artist edition Pickles tote bag by Marlene Yuen. This screen print was originally part of Marlene Yuen’s installation Peace Together (2024), featured in Richmond Art Gallery’s popular exhibition FOODWAYS. Yuen brings Steveston’s now-closed Hong Wo General Store vividly to life in our imaginations with her colourful, Pop-inflected relief and screen prints depicting the groceries once sold at this iconic shop, pickles to mayonnaise to Nescafé.
Marlene Yuen (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works on the unceded and ancestral home territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səlí̓ lwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her current focus is on illustrations, prints, comics, zines and handmade books. Marlene’s books and zines have been retained in special collections archives nationally and internationally. In 2021, her short-run publication, Ho Sun Hing Printers, received an honourable mention from the City of Vancouver Book Awards program. It is about Canada’s first Chinese-English letterpress print shop and was a co-publication with grunt gallery. She has also created artworks about Vancouver’s historic Chinatown and Chinese Canadian workers for museums, galleries and public art programs. Her mural, The Journeys Here, will be a part of an upcoming touring exhibition, Odysseys and Migration with the Chinese Canadian Museum at Royal BC Museum in 2025.
