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Winter 2025 Exhibitions at the RMG

January 22, 2025

We are pleased to present four new exhibitions this winter!

Karen Kar Yen Law, Egg Assemblage No. 3 (detail), 2024, newsprint collage, spray paint, and resin on wood panel, 16 x 20 inches.

Karen Kar Yen Law: RBC Emerging Artist in Residence Exhibition

February 25, 2025 – April 19, 2025

Curated by Hannah Keating

During her residency, Karen Kar Yen Law will develop a new body of work within her ongoing artistic exploration of the five essential flavours of Chinese cuisine (salty, spicy, sour, sweet, and bitter). Focusing her research at the RMG on bitterness, Karen will create new paintings inspired by the unique flavour profile of the bitter melon. Drawing on a variety of painting and printmaking techniques, she will consider how bitterness relates to Chinese culinary traditions, experiences of diaspora and diasporic identities, and intergenerational relationships.

Related programming:
Exhibition Opening + Artist Talk: March 1, 2025, 1-3PM

This program is supported by the RBC Foundation’s RBC Emerging Artist Project.

Tony Lidstone, Sunrise Pier

Oshawa Camera Club: Celebrating 100 Years of Oshawa with Pictures

December 12, 2024 – June 15, 2025
Curated by Sonya Jones

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the Oshawa Camera Club are pleased to present an exhibition in honour of the City of Oshawa’s 100th anniversary that celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of Oshawa through photos. This exhibition will feature photographs from the City of Oshawa’s 100 Centennial Photography Contest.

The Neighbours Project, installed at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (February 2024).

The Neighbours Art Hive

December 21, 2024 – February 17, 2025

As a place to make, rest, and connect, the installation supports creative community development, social connection, and personal wellbeing through art-making experiences. We invite all our neighbours to drop in any time during operating hours to make use of the free art materials! Participants are welcome to take their projects with them or hang them up for everyone to enjoy during the run of the exhibition.

The Neighbours Art Hive is a temporary installation that transforms the gallery into an active studio space with help from the LivingRoom Community Art Studio.

Presented by The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation.

Related programming:

Every Friday from January 10 to February 14, 2025, volunteers from the LivingRoom Community Art Studio will be onsite to lead facilitated sessions from 12pm-3:30pm.

Into the Horizon: Durham Catholic District School Board Art Exhibition

February 27 – March 16, 2025

Community Partnership

This exhibition celebrates artworks by students in Kindergarten – Grade 12 from across the Durham Catholic District School Board.

Related programming:
Opening reception: February 27, 6-8PM

Presented in partnership with the Durham Catholic District School Board.

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