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Image: Silas Ng, Music in My Eyes, 2020–, site-specific installation at , exhibition at The Gallery at Evergreen Arts, 2024. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography. 

Curated Public Artworks

All year round, the AGE presents a curated series of public artworks in our neighbourhood. These installations are presented in conjunction with our gallery programming and offer a chance for Evergreen visitors, park goers and transit users to engage freely with contemporary art in our community. 

Find our latest display on Evergreen’s lake-side lobby windows and at the Lafarge Lake–Douglas SkyTrain Station. To celebrate our 30th anniversary, additional artworks by artists from the Tri-Cities appear around the building.  

Image: Sarah Anne Johnson, Woodland (2020–), site-specific installation at Lafarge Lake-Douglas SkyTrain Station, 2024. Presented in partnership by TransLink and t, exhibition at The Gallery at Evergreen Arts. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Sarah Anne Johnson: Woodland (2020-)

Lafarge Lake-Douglas SkyTrain Station
March 2024 – March 2026

The magic of the forest comes to life in Sarah Anne Johnson’s artwork Woodland (2020–), a series of eight whimsical and psychedelic photographs that traces the four seasons across Lafarge Lake–Douglas SkyTrain Station. In these works, the artist portrays what she calls the “healing power of the forest” through a kaleidoscope of colours. Her colour prisms bring to light unseen dimensions found within nature.

Sarah Anne Johnson lives and works in Winnipeg, MB. She holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. She is the recipient of many grants and awards and her work is included in several distinguished collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Vancouver Art Gallery. Johnson is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, New York; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto; and Division Gallery, Montreal.

Image: Karen Zalamea, Herbarium (after Flora de Filipinas), 2024-2025, site-specific installation at , exhibition at The Gallery at Evergreen Arts, 2026. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Karen Zalamea: Herbarium (after Flora de Filipinas)

Herbarium (after Flora de Filipinas) (2024–25) by Karen Zalamea depicts 20 cyanotypes of illustrations from the 19th-century botanical text Flora de Filipinas, assembled into a digital collage. In this work, Zalamea investigates how such images, taken during research surveys, are considered “unbiased” and “scientific” yet are in fact linked to colonial practices of knowledge extraction, and as such not “neutral” at all. The artwork portrays how plant life—particularly in the historical context of the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule—is tied to ideas of identity and connection to place. Together, the cyanotypes act as what Zalamea calls a “herbarium of heritage.”


The artist created digital negatives from scans of the botanical illustrations to make cyanotypes: a camera-less photo technique where an object or negative is placed onto a light-sensitized surface, then exposed to daylight to create an image. In this mural-like interpretation, the sunlight has a different role—it instead courses through the vinyl window coverings to create a translucent, stained-glass effect.

Like how Zalamea reconfigures existing botanical illustrations into cyanotypes in Herbarium, the translation of the original cyanotype artwork into the window installation showcases the life cycle of images—continuously replicated and consequently spread. With the artwork reformatted to fit Evergreen’s windows facing Lafarge Lake, the troubled stories that Herbarium tells here mirror the work’s localized context. It offers us a moment to reflect on how colonialist projects and ideals were implemented through the development of Lafarge Lake, which has forever altered local surroundings.


This public art project is part of the 2026 Capture Photography Festival’s Public Art Program.