by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 19, 2014 | Aesthetics, Art, Art School, Artist, Climate Change, Collaboration, Craftsmanship, Design, Form, Handwork, Industrial Design, Maker, Marketing, Production, Sculpture, Technology, Use Object
Dear Santa,I know I haven’t written since I was a kid, and when it comes to wants, I’m pretty much good. Unlike a lot of my neighbours who rent homes that are slated for demolition in the coming year or who have to hit the food bank at the end of every...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 12, 2014 | Art, Artist, Caroline Eriksson, Ceca Georgieva, Christmas, Color, Colour, Craft, Craftsmanship, Creative Process, Culture, DSquared2, Emily Blincoe, Gingerbread, Ideas, Maker, Making, Meditative, Performance Art, Sculpture
It’s not too late to say, Nay! I will not be coerced into this coming two-week commercial frenzy. I will steer my little ship into calmer waters! Instead of joining the throngs of harried consumers grabbing up plastic chocolate-pooping reindeer and ironic...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 14, 2014 | Art, Art Discourse, Artist, Big Data, Critique, Culture, Distraction, Instagram, Marketing, Media, Research, Social Engagement, Social Media, Vancouver
I’ve been giving Instagram a lot of thought. And I’ve concluded that I’m exhausted. (Photo by Carlyn Yandle) I realize that Instagam can turn a small-town lady with a crafty idea into an international business success story, but that’s quickly...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 29, 2014 | Aluminum, Art, City As Site, Cluster, Commission, Construction, Creative Process, Exhibit, Gallery, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Project, Public Art, Rachel Lafo, Richmond Art Gallery, Sculpture, Social Engagement
It’s one thing to dream up an idea for the back end of the elevated Canada Line track and quite another to see that dream come together in a mammoth aluminum sculpture. Metal fabrication at the Select Steel shop, Delta. Carlyn Yandle photo So when I got my first...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 22, 2014 | Art, Commission, Lost Painting, Paint, Painting, Vancouver, Vancouver International Airport, YVR
Grey Lace, 2014, by Carlyn Yandle. Acrylic on canvas, 40″ x 67″ This week I am testing the usefulness of social media in locating a painting.Grey Lace is not my first commission, but a favourite, done over two months this past winter. It is an abstract...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 20, 2014 | Art, Business, Cultural Hub, Display, Exhibit, Gallery-row, Gentrification, Marketing, South-granville, Vancouver
The neighbourhood as it was when I lived there. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with South Granville, the shopping strip between 6th and 16th Avenues.This was the neighbourhood of my first apartment, a $350-per-month studio in the old Greenwood Lodge, in the...
Recent Comments