by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 30, 2012 | Art, Color, Colour, Denyse Thomasos, Globalization, Paint, Painting, Pattern, Process
Metropolis (2007), acrylic, charcoal, porous point marker on canvas, 84” x 132” Ignorance was truly bliss when I spotted this staggering, large painting at the AGO last month. I didn’t know of the artist, so I viewed it at face value, no back story. It was the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 23, 2012 | Art, Art School, Color, Colour, Inspiration, Maker, Neon, Painting, Pattern, Perception, Process, Psychedelic
During my first day of art school, one of the instructors told the auditorium packed with other nervous Foundation-year students that this education would be not just about making the art, but making the artist; the art makes the artist. I wrote that one down because...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jul 18, 2012 | Additive, Art, Assemblage, Collaboration, Collage, Failure, Found Objects, Painting, Pattern, Process, Project
You’d think the biggest challenge of artists is deciding what to make. But every artist I know is challenged by deciding what not to make. There are so many competing pursuits that tend to be part of the lives of creative types: gardening, music, cooking,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 7, 2011 | Art School, Painting, Perception
There’s an old story in our family about my brother who, as a tyke in montessori, pointed out a stain on the dining room wallpaper and said it looked like Chad. Or maybe it was a U.S. state. (It wasn’t my story.)That’s what an education can do for...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 12, 2011 | Painting, Process, Psychedelic
The only thing I miss about being 20 is going out of my mind. Or into my mind. Or just getting out of my context, for many lost hours. I miss those moments of ecstasy. There are really no opportunities for someone like me to explore the thrill of the edge, the sensory...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 8, 2011 | Art, Collage, Painting, Process
Whenever someone tells me my work is obsessive I think of Fred Tomaselli. Now that’s obsessive. In a really, really good way.Last December I finally got to cross off an important pilgrimage when I took in his solo show of paintings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art,...
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