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 | 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 | 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 | 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 12, 2011 | Assemblage, Colour, Crochet, Dance, Doilies, Fabric, Found Objects, Nick Cave, Performance, Textile
American fabric sculptor/performance artist Nick Cave parties with decor and the domestic to create his Soundsuits. I’m fairly new at this. Not the writing part; I’ve been doing that for quite a while. It’s this big scary exploration also known as...
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