In Conversation: Rick Leong

INTERVIEW (video)

Published Dec 2, 2021

Artist Rick Leong takes us through his solo exhibition, The Desired Path, on view at Arsenal Contemporary Art New York through December 18, 2021. Leong’s landscapes, distinctly Canadian in their subject matter, are imbued with Chinese historical forms that define the artist’s hybrid visual vocabulary. For his debut solo exhibition on American soil, Leong turns his attention to the manufacture of biota within interior spaces like botanical gardens and biodomes. His representation of flora is posited at the intersection of two traditions: botany and landscape painting. Through this adept correlation, Leong marks a parallel between the encounter with nature in a domesticated realm and the experience of going to a gallery or museum.

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