by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 26, 2012 | Art, Commission, Craft, Crochet, Design, Installation, Pattern, Public Art, Sculpture
It’s a tricky business, doing a public-art commission for a private corporation, especially when there are big strings attached to the cash: the thing has to salute the business itself.The really tricky part is creating something that doesn’t pander to the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 28, 2012 | Art, Design, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Production, Surrealism, Use Object
I love that emotional collision that happens when faced with a great artwork.It’s that attraction-repulsion thing that sort of mutes the rest of the world for a moment while the ol’ brain tries to make sense of what the heart knows: this is really...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 23, 2012 | Art, Art School, Color, Colour, Inspiration, Maker, Neon, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Psychedelic
During my first day of art school, one of the instructors told the auditorium packed with other nervous Foundation-year students that this education would be not just about making the art, but making the artist; the art makes the artist. I wrote that one down because...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 18, 2012 | Additive, Art, Assemblage, Collaboration, Collage, Failure, Found Objects, Painting, Pattern, Process, Project
You’d think the biggest challenge of artists is deciding what to make. But every artist I know is challenged by deciding what not to make. There are so many competing pursuits that tend to be part of the lives of creative types: gardening, music, cooking,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 26, 2012 | Art, Collaboration, Craft, Crafts, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Maker, Net, Network, Process, Project, Public Art, Sculpture, Textile
Artist friend and Maker Faire participant Rachael Ashe In his speech to graduates of Toronto’s York University this month, one of my favourite journalists, CBC Radio’s Michael Enright, advised the next working generation to “learn how to fix something. Or make...
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,...
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