by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Color, Conceptual Art, Creative Process, Culture, Fabricating, Found Objects, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Process, Upcycling, Use Object, Use Objects
My not-quite-resolved plastic quilty test. I’ve been left high and dry, marooned by a foul waste stream — a particular category of non-recycled stuff that ends up in Vancouver’s landfill. This category consists of many boxes of rigid-plastic toy bits that my nephews...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 15, 2013 | Art, Culture, Photography, Social History, Vancouver
Venerable city newspaper reporter John Mackie has an eye for old things Vancouver. He was intrinsic in the broad-daylighting of Fred Herzog’s mid-century images, and more recently he has given deserved public exposure to a visual goldmine of prints by Vancouver Sun...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 1, 2013 | Art, Assemblage, Creative Process, Design, Eastside Culture Crawl, Fabricating, Found Objects, Handwork, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Maker, Process, Project
My mother might remember this: as a kid, I once declared that I could handle a stint in jail, because I would spend the time dressing up the place by making decorations out of any old bits and pieces. Not a huge leap, as making something out of nothing was already my...
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 | Nov 30, 2012 | Art, Color, Colour, Denyse Thomasos, Globalization, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Process
Metropolis (2007), acrylic, charcoal, porous point marker on canvas, 84” x 132” Ignorance was truly bliss when I spotted this staggering, large painting at the AGO last month. I didn’t know of the artist, so I viewed it at face value, no back story. It was the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 9, 2012 | Additive, Art, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Garment, Handwork, Ideas, Industry, Knitting, Macrame, Maker, Public Art, Quilt, Sculpture, Street Art, Textile, Weaving, Wool
A real trip: Toronto’s textile-retail district is a visual feast for any kind of maker. (Carlyn Yandle photos) Stephen Cruise’s 1997 public artwork at Richmond and Spadina. (Carlyn Yandle photo) Like other Vancouver makers, I mourn the latest closures of...
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