Photographer Martine Gutierrez Explores Iconic Heroines at The Polygon Gallery (July 12 – Sept. 29)

ByJohn Goodman July 11, 2024September 13, 2024

Polygon anti icon — Tonight at the Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, photographer Martine Gutierrez will be featured in an Artist Talk with Anti-Icon: Apokalypsis curator Elliott Ramsey at 7 p.m. After the talk, there will be a free outdoor screening of the Talking Heads’ film Stop Making Sense at 9:15 p.m., as part of the Deckchair Cinema series. Illustration: BB

The New York Times describes photographer Martine Gutierrez as “an artist, performer and provocateur.” The Polygon Gallery is featuring the work of the transdisciplinary artist in a new exhibition, Anti-Icon: Apokalypsis – 17 self-portraits in which Gutierrez references historical heroines through a critical, modernist lens that deconstructs the visual lineages of each subject. Initiated as a Public Art Fund project in the U.S., 10 of her images of powerful iconic women (including Cleopatra, Aphrodite, Godiva, and Sheba) were installed in 300 bus shelters in New York City, Chicago, and Boston. Tonight at the Polygon, Gutierrez will be featured in an Artist Talk with Anti-Icon: Apokalypsis curator Elliott Ramsey at 7 p.m. Admission is by donation. The show runs until Sept. 29.

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