Rhapsody 春意甜

May 1 - May 23, 2026

Zhang himself describes his paintings as attempts to capture transient moments of beauty – glimpses drawn from nature, seasonal change, human relationships, and the shared vitality of living beings. This is a labour of love. Yet these moments, we might note, resist permanence. They surface only briefly within the flux of life, and here within the painted field, dissolve again into a play of abstraction.

The result is a pictorial language that acknowledges both the desire to hold onto experience and the impossibility of fixing it, with the bittersweet paradox of course, that a painting is in itself a fixed image that will outlast us.

– Séamus Kealy, Executive Director, Oakville Galleries (exhibition essay excerpt)

Please join us to explore and enjoy this Chinese-Canadian artist’s newest work at Odon Wagner Gallery.