Sept 26 – Oct 5, 2025
We’re so happy to be a community partner for THIS Gallery‘s upcoming exhibition: a solo show by our very own Babe Siegl!
Babe Siegl’s Dark Wreath merges digital precision with the tactile richness of oil painting to explore the complexities of queer identity in a digital age. His surreal, vividly chromatic compositions shimmer with artificial reflections, gendered symbols, and dreamlike figures that reflect cycles of harm—shame, toxic masculinity, and internalized prejudice—caught in endless loops. Yet alongside melancholy lies humour and vitality: his characters, playful as toys or avatars, embody queerness as fluid, adaptive, and ever-becoming. Through this hybridity of medium and meaning, Siegl reveals the tension and resilience at the heart of contemporary queer experience.
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, September 27, from 12 – 4pm at THIS Gallery (108 East Broadway, back alley entrance).
ABOUT BABE SIEGL
Benjamin/Babe Siegl (he/him) is a painter, animator, and occasional curator based in Vancouver. His work explores contemporary queer identity through the lenses of painting, drawing, animation, and digital media. Originally from Florida, Siegl holds a BFA from Florida State University (2011) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2017). He is a long-term staff member of the Pride in Art Society, a Vancouver-based queer arts charity.