Carolina de la Cajiga | City in Flux: Work in Progress

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Cypress Bowl Development, 2017, Laminated high gloss photo paper on aluminum E panel, archival ink 4

City in Flux: Work in Progress is a photography series that points towards the ever changing landscape of Vancouver, and what that constant development means for our nature, culture, and people.

When

Apr 10, 2018, 11:00am – Apr 29, 2018, 5:00pm

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Opening Reception | April 10, 6-8pm

Meet the Artist | April 14, 12-2pm

Panel Discussion | April 15, 12-2pm

As part of the Capture Photography Festival, check out Emily Carr student Carolina de la Cajiga's solo exhibit, City in Flux: Work in Progress, at Ferry Building Gallery in West Vancouver. Her collection is a playful take on the ongoing development in the city of Vancouver. With a creative eye and a camera, de la Cajiga creates alternate Vancouvers in her images, exaggerating conventions of urban growth in striking and whimsical ways. These dreamy, surreal cityscapes put Vancouver's state of flux at the focus, causing audiences to wonder what it is we are building, and what we are doing to nurture the spaces we already have.

At the gallery opening, she will launch a companion book on the subject. 25% of the sale will be donated to increase the funding of the Entrance Scholarship at Emily Carr University that De la Cajiga and her husband support.

Complementing the altered photographs shown at the Ferry Building Gallery, De la Cajiga is showing a series of paintings based on photographs she took during the construction of the Telus Gardens building on Georgia Street. You will see these artworks at the gallery when attending any event at the The Annex, Vancouver Civic Theatres, until the end of June 2018.

About Carolina de la Cajiga:

De la Cajiga’s introduction to fine art started in Paris where she took History of Art at the Louvre Museum, one of the major art houses of the world. She spent hours observing the great masterpieces; seeing how each painter has distinct ways of handling the brush to apply the paint and how sculptors use their chisels in particular ways leaving one-of-a-kind marks-like fingerprints. This inspired her to become a visual artist. As of late, she has added creative photography to her artistic endeavours.

De la Cajiga has managed to incorporate her experience in painting and sculpture into her fine art photography to create abstract, conceptual digital designs which seem tri-dimensional.

Her art education has been eclectic, taking courses as needed. She has attended Langara College, Capilano University, Focal Point, Vancouver Photo Workshops, and Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada; the Art Institute in San Miguel Allende, Mexico, and the Academy of Realist Art in Seattle, USA.

She has exhibited in various galleries in Canada, Mexico, the US, and Venezuela. She has artwork in these public or private institutions: West Vancouver Museum, Business Council of BC, and Richmond Hospital, BC; as well as in private collections in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Mexico, Spain, the US, and Venezuela.

Carolina was born in Mexico City and has lived in Vancouver, Canada, for over 30 years.