by Carlyn Yandle | Apr 25, 2014 | Beauty, Big Data, Color, Colour, Composition, Creative Process, Data-graphic, Distracts, Inspiration, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Visual Field
With the same anticipation as a root canal I plopped down in a chair at the accountant’s office. Then gasped and pointed, then tried not to point at the adjacent bookcase stuffed with client files. The accountant flipped through my own paperwork. I flipped out...
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 | Jan 16, 2014 | Art, Assemblage, Climate Change, Creative Process, Distracts, Doilies, Fabricating, Failure, Foraging, Found Objects, Globalization, Innovation, Inspiration, Painting, Production, Quilt, Raw Materials, Upcycling
Coming up with new ideas is not without its hazards. The world-renowned Noma restaurant is a case in point. Chef-patron Rene Redzepi uses what grows in the area, innovating astounding food creations famously foraged from the local land and sea. Sometimes the magic...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 10, 2014 | Architecture, Collaboration, Fiber, Innovation, Installation, Painting, Pattern, Quilt, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Vancouver, Visual Field
Carlyn Yandle photo This is clearly not a staged photo. Pretty much every rule of home decor is ignored here in this old East Van house. And that’s why I love it.Maybe it’s the weather but I’ve just about had enough of the grey-washed matte-bland...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 11, 2013 | Art, Art Discourse, Assemblage, Color, Colour, Composition, Conceptual Art, Craft, Fabric, Fiber, Fibre, Found Objects, Handwork, Installation, Kimsooja, Openings, Painting, Pattern, Performance Art, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Social History, Textile, Vancouver
Kimsooja with curator Daina Augaitis Internationally renowned artist Kimsooja was verklempt at the opening reception for her show, Unfolding, at the Vancouver Art Gallery Thursday. Her audience would soon feel that emotion unfolding as the soft-spoken artist led a...
by Carlyn Yandle | Oct 4, 2013 | Culture Jamming, Expression, Joel Bakan, Painting, Performance, Performance Art, Political Art, Public Art, Social Engagement, Social History, Social Justice
Whenever I’m hit with another CBC countdown promo of its exclusive Canadian coverage of the Winter Olympics in Sochi that viral image of Putin in drag makeup pops into my head.That one cheeky act packs a political wallop and reminds me that while the pen is...
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