by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 21, 2014 | Exhibit, Landon Mackenzie, Pompidou, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery
Here’s a plan: Meet up with a friend after work downtown for a drink, then go check out the latest exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery. That works just fine — if your workday ends at 3 p.m. Stupid us, we figured that at least we’d get a quick look at the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 17, 2014 | Art Show, Body Of Work, Carlyn Yandle, Cityspace Gallery, Collaboration, Collage, Domestic, Domestic Interventions, Exhibit, Fibre, Fibre Arts, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver, Painting, Sculpture
Janet Wang plays with the Madonna and Child mainstay. I spent most of the day yesterday sitting with a very close friend in a hospital bed, waiting for the surgeon to slice into her gut and remove a large cyst and maybe an ovary or two. Or maybe all her lady parts....
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 10, 2014 | Art Show, Cityspace Gallery, Domestic, Exhibit, Gallery, Installation, Janet Wang, Monique Motut-Firth, North Vancouver
My brief stint as a home organizer was an eye-opener — door opener, to be precise. I got a rare view of the reality behind the doors of some beautiful houses. Often I was the only outsider who had been invited inside for years, for many different reasons. Home is...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 12, 2014 | Art Discourse, City As Site, Display, Exhibit, Gallery, Making, Public Art, Richmond Art Gallery, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Video
People say talking about one’s work gets easier with practice. I don’t know any of those people. (Glen Andersen photos) I did not sign up for this.Well, actually I did, in my exhibiting-artist contract with the Richmond Art Gallery for the current City as...
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 | 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...
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