by Carlyn Yandle | May 1, 2015 | Graffiti, Mural, Vancouver
A masked Spock commands attention at one of many houses slated for demolition outside the King Edward Canada Line station. (Carlyn Yandle photo) The alienating effect of walking by blocks of empty homes is seen in the writing on the wall. It is there in the masked...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 24, 2015 | Appropriation, Architecture, Cultural Hub, Doilies, Doily, Graffiti, Green Space, Guerrilla Art, Mural, Political Art, Protest, Public Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Wrap I, Wrap II
One of a handful of Vancouver’s ‘country lanes’ from a 2002 pilot projects. (Photo: Ben Nelms for National Post) And yet.And yet there is nothing like an untenable situation to spark a creative response. There is evidence of it in the spaces between,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 28, 2014 | Art Discourse, Art History, Critique, Environment, Expression, Ian Reid, Ian Wallace, Mural, Painting, Protest, Shawn Hunt, TJ Watt, Vancouver, Visual Language
The war in the woods is heating up again. Except it’s not the people against forestry giants MacMillan-Bloedel or Fletcher Challenge; on this day it’s Kinder Morgan. Yagis Eating an Oil Tanker by Ian Reid Nusi. (Photo by Christopher Glawe) Oil-pipeline...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jun 13, 2014 | Art, Cartoon, Creative Process, Draw Down, Drawing, Expression, Ideas, Mural, Playing, Social Engagement, Vancouver
Remember when you were a kid you knew you could give a drawing as a present to any adult and that adult would love it, even though you would definitely not like a drawing-present yourself?It’s one of those things that separates the kids from the adults. You know...
by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 11, 2014 | Art Discourse, Banksy, Collaboration, Color, Colour, Critique, Culture, Expression, Mural, Painting, Public Art, Richard-tetrault, Social History, Vancouver, Visual Field
Urban Crow (detail), by Richard Tetrault I have this vague, hippie-era-soaked memory of my brother and I hanging with my father as he painted a wall alongside some other artists. Forty years later I suggested to my brother that he swing by my own mural project last...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 1, 2013 | Edward Burtynsky, Environmental Art, Expression, Fiber, Ideas, Inspiration, Installation, Knotting, Macrame, Mural, Net, Photography, Public Art, Scale, Sculpture, Textile, Vancouver, Visual Field
They say if you want someone’s attention, whisper. Or maybe that was just a line from a Whisper pantyhose commercial back in the ’70s.Whispering to get attention isn’t easy in an image-packed urban landscape where slick marketing messages infiltrate...
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