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 | Mar 14, 2014 | Commission, Douglas-coupland, Innovation, Installation, Nature, Project, Public Art, Sculpture, Surrealism, Vancouver
This week marks the unveiling of Golden Tree, Douglas Coupland’s latest public artwork, to be installed next year at the southern gateway to Vancouver, at Cambie and Marine Drive.The gold-patina, steel-reinforced resin and fiberglass mirror image of the famous...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 13, 2013 | Additive, Architecture, Assemblage, Collaboration, Commission, Craftsmanship, Fabricating, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Maker, Metalworker, Project, Waterwork
While the rest of us are scrambling to post our recent activity, build our brand, be a part of the online conversation, Noah is solving problems through metal. His underwhelming website is testimony to what he does instead all day long instead of sitting at a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 6, 2013 | Color, Colour, Commission, Creative Process, Design, Graffiti, Industry, Installation, Paint, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Pattern, Process, Project, Public Art, Quilt, Safety, Street Art
I could never understand why the armies of construction workers in this town would head for the Wendy’s or Burger King over a nutritious, fresh soup and salad next door. That was before I started spending long days under a respirator spraypainting in a cavern of...
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...
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