Discover new art and make new friends! Hop on our bus to visit four solo exhibits at Richmond Art Gallery, Burnaby Art Gallery, and The Gallery in Queen's Park (New Westminster)
Date/Time: Oct 24 2018, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Surrey, Surrey Arts Centre | Event calendarAge: 16+
Cost: $39.00
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Bring a bag lunch or pick something up on site at the New Westminster Quay.
Register online with barcode number 4617189.
Participants will meet at Surrey Art Gallery for an orientation over coffee. Then they will embark with Surrey Art Gallery Curator Jordan Strom and Assistant Curator Rhys Edwards.
Richmond Art Gallery
The first stop will be Richmond Art Gallery to see two solo exhibits dealing with identity. In To My Unborn Child, Taiwanese artist Wen-Li Chen explores her ambivalent feelings about her mixed ethnic heritage upon having her first child. Chen’s images reflect on personal identity and the future of Indigenous Taiwanese peoples.
The other exhibit is In Suspended Silence by Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan. She navigates natural and cultural realms grounded in Chinese philosophies, myths, and folklore. Her meditative work derives from traditional Chinese art, reimagined through a contemporary perspective. The result is a poetic exploration into spirituality and self-transformation.
Burnaby Art Gallery
The next stop is Burnaby Art Gallery in Deer Lake Park to tour Anna Wong: Traveller on Two Roads. A master printmaker, Anna Wong (1930-2013) was born and raised in Vancouver’s Chinatown. She studied Chinese brush painting in Hong Kong and graduated from the Vancouver School of Art with a degree in creative printmaking. She has represented Canada in several international print biennials. The group will see many of her paintings, drawings, prints, and large textile pieces.
The Gallery in Queen's Park
After lunch at the New Westminster Quay, the group will finish the day at The Gallery in Queen’s Park, run by the Arts Council of New Westminster. Originally from England, Vancouver-based artist Seth Macbeth fills the space with her collages in Page to Page—Building New Worlds, Exploring New Depths. Her art invites viewers to pay attention to the story she is telling and to use their own experiences to interpret it. Macbeth extracts images from books, cuts them by hand, and weaves them together to form balanced compositions.
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