Enigmas & Dreams: Works on paper by Alvin Jang & Anna Wong

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Photo courtesy of Byron Dauncey

Alvin Jang, "The Colony (excerpt)", 1982 (courtesy of the artist)

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.

Enigmas & Dreams also features a specially commissioned title wall by Brother Jopa, a Vancouver-based lettering artist, designer, and muralist, who specializes in hand-drawn typography and calligraphy.