June 28 – August 24
Exhibition – Enigmas & Dreams: Works on paper by Alvin Jang & Anna Wong
Richmond Art Gallery
7700 Minoru Gate
Enigmas & Dreams: works on paper by Alvin Jang & Anna Wong offers up a dynamic pairing of two under recognized local Chinese Canadian artists. Alvin Jang’s (b. 1950) sense of the surreal streams through his sci-fi-inspired series The Colony, depicting a colourful world overrun by a dense population of worms, and Pillow Talk, evoking a hallucinatory series of dreams, rendered in a hyper-realistic style. A selection of abstract drawings by artist Anna Wong (b. 1930–d. 2013) from the late 1960s brings to light the hybridity of her visual vernacular, which marries the gesturality of Chinese brush painting with the experimental mark making of Abstract Expressionism.
Website: https://www.richmondartgallery.org/enigmas-dreams