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Richmond Art Gallery opens Ongoing / Pacific Crossings exhibition
The international exhibition, created through a seven-year exchange with Tokyo’s Art Center Ongoing, runs at the Richmond Cultural Centre until Oct. 4.
Richmond Art Gallery has opened Ongoing / Pacific Crossings, an international exhibition that runs until Oct. 4 at the Richmond Cultural Centre.
The show is the result of a seven-year cultural exchange involving Tokyo’s Art Center Ongoing, Richmond Art Gallery and guest curator Makiko Hara. Hara and Art Center Ongoing director Nozomu Ogawa assembled works in fabric art, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video.
The exhibition includes work by Japanese artists Yusuke Shibata, Shiho Kagabu, Mineki Murata, Marico Aoki and Haruka Saito, along with Canadian artist Karilynn Ming Ho. A separate screening room presents experimental video works by Hiroyuki Oki, Maiko Jinushi, Masahiro Wada, Takuro Kotaka and Kent Nito.
The gallery is at the Richmond Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Gate. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.