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Arsenal Contemporary Art New York is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Victoria-based painter Rick Leong in the United States. Leong’s landscapes, distinctly Canadian in their subject matter, are imbued with Chinese historical forms that defines the artist’s hybrid visual vocabulary. If this idiosyncratic style is a way for the artist to negotiate his shared heritage, it also serves to critically engage with the history of Canadian landscape painting, one dominated by white settler figures of the likes of Lawren Harris, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr.

For Leong, the formation of …