Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes
Ye Olde Convenience Shop
About the Artwork
Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes’s notable oeuvre responds to the increasing digitisation of culture, thinking through the strategies of digital image creation, manipulation, and circulation through analogue gestures. Translating the tools of software such as Photoshop into physical intervention, Holmes rigorously reasserts material precision in the age of the JPEG. As her practice continues along these lines, Ye Olde Convenience Shop marks a rare opportunity to revisit a landmark work in the artist’s rise: one of five pieces that earned Holmes the Award in Photography for Emily Carr University’s BFA Grad Show, later presented at The Polygon in the 2020 exhibition Everything Leaks. Here, laser-cut wood is superimposed on an original photograph, and custom-framed. Holmes alludes to the provisional nature of photographs, while also transforming immaterial digital photography into unique sculpture.
Ye Olde Convenience Shop
2019
Photographic sculpture
Unique
28" x 42"
Estimate: $8,000
Courtesy the artist and Unit 17, Vancouver
About Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes
Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes (b. 1991, Hong Kong) is a New York-based artist primarily interested in the everyday use of photography on the internet, and the way mass media affects a generations' sense of photographic composition. She has been featured in recent solo and two-person exhibitions in Vancouver (Unit 17, 2022), London (Project Native Informant, 2021), North Vancouver (The Polygon Gallery, 2020), Toronto (Sibling, 2019), and Montréal (Calaboose, 2018). Select group exhibitions have been held at the National Gallery of Canada (2022), Nanaimo Art Gallery (2022), and Blinkers, Winnipeg (2022). In 2020, Holmes won the New Generation Photography Award from the National Gallery of Canada. She was the winner of the second annual Philip B. Lind Emerging Prize in 2017, as well as the Emily Carr graduating photography award. Holmes graduated from ECUAD with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography & a Curatorial minor in 2017. This fall Holmes will be showing at Rose Easton (London, UK), as well as Nicelle Beauchene (NY). She is represented by Unit 17, Vancouver.
