by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 8, 2011 | Art, Collage, Painting, Process
Whenever someone tells me my work is obsessive I think of Fred Tomaselli. Now that’s obsessive. In a really, really good way.Last December I finally got to cross off an important pilgrimage when I took in his solo show of paintings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 29, 2011 | Art, Doily, Fractal, Process, Psychedelic, Writing
I don’t know what to think about this gravitational pull into psychedelic art and my obsession with the humble, throwaway doily. But it’s better that way.Better to learn through the making. It’s taken four years of full-time art school to get past my past way of...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 26, 2011 | Crafts, Handwork, Knotting, Macrame, Net, Public Art
Who knew those old patterns for plant-hangers and belts (and whatever that ‘practical’ getup is) would one day inform an art practice? I had a Moment yesterday when I saw the front page of the Richmond Review newspaper, announcing that my design has...
by Carlyn Yandle | May 9, 2011 | Colour, Mural, Paint, Painting, Street Art
I was walking out of a Seattle Value Village, defeated (damn you Capitol Hill hipsters) on just another steel-grey Wet Coast day when I was hit by shards of colour on concrete. Instead of simply preserving the old painted signage from Days of Yore, art interrupts,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 21, 2011 | Craft, Design, Industrial Design, Innovation, Performance Art
I fail to see much of a distinction between art and design. There is a lot of design in a painting, while a design item like a chair or a hooked rug can be a nonfunctional piece of art. The distinction has been about ‘use.’ That pretty much precludes any...
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