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Who says sculpture has no business in business?

Who says sculpture has no business in business?

by | Mar 27, 2015 | Assemblage, Clay Yandle, Collaboration, Creative Process, Design, Display, Eggbeater Creative, Experimentation, Form, Found Objects, Ideas, Inspiration, Marketing, Martha Rosler, Painting, Recycle, Sculpture, Semiotics, Surrealism, Typography, Unfixtures, Upcycling

“Unfixtures”: Found lamp bases, utensils, gesso. I liked the idea of messing with the overlooked and the banal to open up possible new understandings about preconceived notions.There was something delicious about a collection of attractive objects —...
Feeling the squeeze all part of the practice

Feeling the squeeze all part of the practice

by | 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....
Words are not enough to capture the seduction of distraction

Words are not enough to capture the seduction of distraction

by | Jun 6, 2014 | Blogs, Composition, Creative Process, Critique, Design, Distraction, Distracts, Expression, Ideas, Inspiration, Motivation, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Studio, Writing

Distracts #1, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 33″W x 27″H. To me, the easiest part about carving out a place in the visual arts world is writing something about it. Yet most of my artist colleagues don’t know how I make myself do it on a weekly basis. Easy....
How not to crash at the big art shows

How not to crash at the big art shows

by | May 9, 2014 | Art, Art School, Creative Process, ECUAD, Emily Carr University, Exhibit, Gallery, Granville-island, Ideas, Innovation, Inspiration, Paint, Painting, Playing, Vancouver, Visual Field

The mammoth art museum experience is like an all-inclusive resort for the mind: there’s so much coming at you the brain binges ’til it can’t party anymore. Unless you’re an art history major, what’s hanging on those soaring walls and...