Painting - Kayla Polan

Classically So Bored of Sweating
oil on canvas

40 x 40"
2018

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I Want To Smell Like A Thriving Stock Market
oil on canvas

50 x 50"
2018

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Tender Masc, Hard Femme
oil on canvas

50 x 50"
2018

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Pancakes For One Aren't Always Depressing (fig. 1)

oil on canvas

28 x 22"
2017
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Pancakes For One Aren't Always Depressing (fig. 2)

oil on canvas

28 x 22"
2017
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Pancakes For One Aren't Always Depressing (fig. 3)

oil on canvas

28 x 22"
2017
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Pancakes For One Aren't Always Depressing (fig. 4)

oil on canvas

28 x 22"
2017
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Pancakes For One Aren't Always Depressing

oil on canvas

28 x 22" (each) / 57 x 48" (total)
2017

detail of Pancakes For One Aren't Always Depressing (fig. 2)

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Installation view of Pancakes For One Aren't Always Depressing at Bunker 2 show "Vacancy"

Curated by John Elammar

Featuring Joe Chamandy, Aidan Cowling, Adam Chuck, Todd Fraser, Marlon Kroll, Kayla Polan, and Victor Vazquez

Something's Burning (And It's Not Our Love)
oil on canvas
40 x 40"
2015
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I Guess We're Calling In Sick Today
oil on canvas
40 x 30"
2016

Don't Go Bacon My Heart

oil on canvas
48 x 42"
2017
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Honey, Pass The Corn Pops
oil on canvas
48 x 36"

2016

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Keep Your Eyes Peeled
oil on canvas
16 x 12"
2016

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Whipping Cream
oil on canvas
16 x 12"
2016
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Bubble Trouble
oil on canvas
16 x 12"
2016
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Venus as Vibrator
oil on canvas
16 x 12"
2017
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I Spoof My Own Sex Appeal

oil on canvas
16 x 12"

2017
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Are You Your Partner's Lover?
oil on canvas
16 x 12"
2017
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6 Tips On DIY Pickling & Other Cleaning Conundrums Solved
oil on canvas
16 x 12"
2017
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Installation view of 6 Tips on DIY Pickling & Other Cleaning Conundrums Solved at Critical Distance Centre for Curators show "Fermenting Feminism"

Curated by Lauren Fournier
Documented by Lee Henderson

"Shamelessly re-claiming puns from the purview of 1950s dads and employing them as part of her humorous and sex-positive feminist art practice, Polan relishes in a peculiar kind of excess. With 6 Tips on DIY Pickling & Other Cleaning Conundrums Solved, Polan provides a playful and practical suggestion for those who work with beets (in the kitchen or elsewhere): the use of black latex gloves to protect your hands while making beet sauerkraut, or, as Polan notes in her title, while pickling beets. Recently shifting her focus away from food and toward the realm of cleaning—rituals of cleaning oneself and cleaning one’s house—this piece straddles these two areas of interest, both of which converge in feminist histories of domesticity, consumption, and the home."

Excerpt from Critical Kombucha, Dirty Soap, and BDSM Beets: Fermenting Feminism through Contemporary Art Practices  by Lauren Fournier, Curator of "Fermenting Feminism"

Installation view of 6 Tips on DIY Pickling & Other Cleaning Conundrums Solvedat Critical Distance Centre for Curators show "Fermenting Feminism"

Curated by Lauren Fournier
Documented by Lee Henderson