Opening on March 1 at the SkyTrain’s Lafarge Lake–Douglas Station in Coquitlam, Sarah Anne Johnson’s Woodland employs a similar sense of place. The artist based in Manitoba uses Adobe Photoshop, paint, metal leaf, holographic tape, and photo-spotting ink to give her photos of the forest a magical, kaleidoscopic feel that’s representative of how she views the landscape. The eight images in Woodland, installed across the station, reflect splashes of whimsical, stained glass-like colour on the surrounding forest and concrete cityscape.

The barbershops and hair salons of Manhattan’s Chinatown are at the centre of Hong Kong-born, Vancouver-based artist Ho Tam’s A Manifesto of Hair, opening on March 23 at The News Room on East 4th Avenue. The densely populated neighbourhood built on the lands of the Lenape people is now home to a historic hub for the diasporic Chinese and Southeast Asian population. Tam’s precise photographs of salon scenes zoom in on the working class within the marginalized community while exploring how race, class, and commerce are related.