by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 28, 2012 | Art, Gallery, Inspiration, Painting, Vancouver
Mukai has been quietly working and reworking her paintings and drawings for 30 years. Painting feels a lot like grasping for words to me. There’s general comprehension there, thanks to some study, but I don’t have enough command of my own visual language to express...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 21, 2012 | Colour, Installation, Perception
VIrtual spin art: Twirl your smartphone and click. Better: Twirl yourself and click. Art is in the everyday, even at the Van Dusen Gardens on another miserable rainy night last week.There’s no narrative in those hundreds of thousands of LED coloured lightbulbs...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 14, 2012 | Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Textile, Vancouver
At first I didn’t see what the fuss was about at the official artwork unveiling last weekend at Main and 18th. Unless the soggy mess of dirt and blue metal fencing in front of the new condo complex was some sort of statement about building boom upheaval.Maureen...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 7, 2012 | Craft Blogs, Crafts, Crochet, Use Objects, Wool
It’s the most wonder-what-to-make time of the year — or used to be, for me. It was all tra-la-la-la-la and glue-guns and glitter puff paint back when I had the 9-5 office job. Messing with sparkle and colour was just the thing for fending off the stress of the...
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