The Polygon Gallery
101 Carrie Cates Court V7M 3J4 North Vancouver, BC, Canada

We're excited to announce the launch of the Little Mountain Shop Holiday Pop-Up at The Polygon Gallery. The Holiday Pop-Up features an all Canadian, mostly-local, women-led, vendor lineup. It is open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm, and until 8pm on Thursdays. Shop local this holiday season. Little Mountain Shop

Lu Yang in The New York Times this week. Our event, A screening with Lu Yang, is tomorrow. "The video artist Lu Yang is one of the most innovative and imaginative artists coming out of China right now. Using digital tools to manipulate images of her own body, she explores ancient histories of living, dying and reincarnation and how mortality and existence is affected by technology. Radical, historical and hysterical, her Instagram is a universe of technical images, like the ...wild, grotesque Uterus Man (2013) or the delirious Lu Yang Delusional Mandala (2015), featuring the artist as a post-gender humanoid who seems to achieve mortality through digital means. Where her installations are enveloping and exhilarating, her Instagram feed offers snippets of her manic and visionary work." https://www.nytimes.com//5-art-accounts-to-follow-on-insta

Thank you for sharing, DigiBC. RSVP here for tomorrow's event: https://thepolygon.ca/event/a-screening-with-lu-yang/

Holidays at The Polygon begins November 18. Spread some holiday cheer this festive season by shopping local at The Polygon Holiday Shopfeaturing design-focused gifts for everyone on your list. Make sure to mark your calendars for December 2 when we launch a three week pop-up by Little Mountain Shop, featuring a rotating cast of your favourite local vendors and makers. Sponsors: Local Practice Architecture + Design, The Shipyards District - Lower Lonsdale

This weekend's Kids First Saturdays activity is inspired by the work of Gregory Kaplowitzone of the artists from Mesh, which opens December 4. https://thepolygon.ca/news/kids-first-saturdays-monoprints/ Image 1: Gregory Kaplowitz

Photos from last weekend’s Kids First Saturdays mask-making activity, which was inspired by Third Realm. Thank you to our sponsors Neptune Terminals, Port of Vancouver, and Seaspan Ship Management Ltd.. Kids First is generously supported by the North Shore Community Foundation. The next one takes place on December 5. Photos by Anita Bonnarens Photography

The Great Adventure of the Material World - https://mailchi.mp/thepolygon/lu-yang

It's your final day to watch October Rumbles, a short by Palme d'Or winning auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul. https://thepolygon.ca//apichatpong-weerasethakul-october-/

Important update about Re-space: Ballet BC, The Polygon Gallery, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra have made the difficult decision to postpone Re-space to a later date, due to the recent announcement of new restrictions from the Provincial Health Officer. While we are incredibly excited for you to see what we have created together, the health and safety of our patrons, as well as the artists and staff involved, is of utmost importance. We look forward to presenting this colla...boration in the near future. The past few weeks, as we have moved into the final stage of creation for this site-specific world premiere, have proven to us once again that collaboration is at the heart of live performance. We know you miss the live arts as much as we do! We look forward to welcoming our audiences back into direct relationship with our work as soon as we are safely able to do so.

Third Realm is on view now until November 8. Long weekend hours Saturday: 10am - 5pm Sunday: 10am - 5pm... Monday: Closed See more

Some photos from last weekend's Kids First Saturdays. Our next in-house Kids First takes place on November 7. Register by emailing [email protected].

The Middle Path - https://mailchi.mp/thepolygon/the-middle-path

"Third Realm... paints an exhilarating yet complex picture of contemporary Asian art." - John Thomson for Galleries West

Large parties may be cancelled this year, but there are still creative ways to spread holiday cheer. The Polygon Gallery has created four festive packages, allowing you to celebrate the end of a very difficult year. Contact [email protected] to find out more. https://thepolygon.ca/news/holidays-at-the-polygon-gallery/

"While the exhibition investigates artistic response to rapid globalisation in Asia in the mid-2000s, many of its themes and the issues have new relevance in light of the global pandemic. We can’t help but add new ways of reading the works as the world’s eyes have once again shifted to China. We can add a new dichotomy here: before the pandemic and after the pandemic. Third Realm is well worth a visit." -Kristin Lim from Stir Vancouver.

A Glimpse Into Third Realm - https://mailchi.mp/thepolygon/a-glimpse-into-third-realm

This Wednesday, September 30 at 4pm PST, join Stephen Waddellwinner of the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Awardfor a free virtual talk via Ryerson Image Centre. Register now attryersonimagecentre.ca/events. The "Scotiabank Photography Award: Stephen Waddell" exhibition is on view now until November 28 at Ryerson Image Centre. This survey highlights Waddell's experiments with various photographic techniques and processes, and brings into focus his careful attention to scale and light. Waddell’s elegiac imagescolour street compositions of workers and pedestrians, along with more recent black-and-white photographs of caves and grottosreveal the artist’s painterly sensibility, as well as a found and uncanny theatricality. Image: Stephen Waddell, Chimney Sweep, 2003, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Monte Clark Gallery

This weekend’s online Kids First activity is inspired by Manga, and will be used to create your own zine during our in-gallery Kids First programming on Saturday, October 3. Advance registration can be done by emailing [email protected] https://thepolygon.ca//kids-first-saturdays-drawing-value/ Image: Lu Yang, Still from Wrathful King Kong Core, 2011, courtesy of FarEasyFarWest collection

Reading Third Realm - https://mailchi.mp/thepolygon/reading-third-realm-9416744