The Polygon Gallery opens three winter exhibitions on view throughout the holidays

A pot lid for the sky, Everything Leaks, and Miradas Alternas are showing until February 7.

SPONSORED POST BY THE POLYGON GALLERY

From Christopher Lacroix’s A pot lid for the sky at the Polygon Gallery, We do not know when we started, we do not know when we will end, 2019, inkjet print.

The Polygon Gallery has opened three different exhibitions to provoke thought and keep you artfully inspired through the holidays.

Using lens-based media and subject matter as diverse as shiny foil balloons and fabric sculptures, the shows are on view to February 7, 2021. Each showcases exciting new artistic and curatorial voices.

A pot lid for the sky brings together the works of Vancouver artist Christopher Lacroix and pioneering American conceptualist John Baldessari. Both artists embrace self-parody, irony, and absurdist humour to question what role art might play in a complicated, changing world.

An MFA graduate from the University of British Columbia, Lacroix is the 2018 winner of the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize that is awarded annually at The Polygon to a BC-based artist working in mediums of photography, film, or video.

Everything Leaks is an experimental collaboration between Vancouver artists Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes and Maya Beaudry. Produced in response to an increasingly digital and dematerialised culture, the artist’s works are demonstrably tactile, incorporating fabrics, sculpture, and printed photographs.

And Miradas Alternas challenges how photographic representations of violence in contemporary Mexico might be reimagined through the works of five lens-based women artists: Juliana Alvarado, Alejandra Aragón, Koral Carballo, Mariceu Erthal, and Sonia Madrigal. As the Spanish title implies, the artists present alternative ways of looking at an ongoing crisis, upsetting the boundaries between visual arts, documentary photography, and photojournalism. The exhibition is curated by Andrea Sánchez Ibarrola, an MA candidate in Critical and Curatorial Studies at the University of British Columbia.

The spacious North Shore landmark has COVID protocols in place and is open Wednesday 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday 10 am to 8 pm, and Friday to Sunday 10 am to 5 pm. The Polygon is closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

This post was sponsored by The Polygon Gallery