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 27, 2014 | Building, Construction, Design, Fabricating, Found Objects, Industrial Design, Innovation, Installation, Maker, Public Art, Upcycling, Wood
Like moths to a light, paddleboarders hover around Deadhead. (Carlyn Yandle photo) On one rambling two-hour bike tour of False Creek Sunday, a friend and I cruised by the Dragonboat festival, the jazz festival and the food truck festival. Granville Island was foody...
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 | Mar 14, 2014 | Commission, Douglas-coupland, Innovation, Installation, Nature, Project, Public Art, Sculpture, Surrealism, Vancouver
This week marks the unveiling of Golden Tree, Douglas Coupland’s latest public artwork, to be installed next year at the southern gateway to Vancouver, at Cambie and Marine Drive.The gold-patina, steel-reinforced resin and fiberglass mirror image of the famous...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 28, 2014 | Architecture, Assemblage, Cluster, Colour, Creative Process, Design, Garden, Ideas, Industrial Design, Innovation, Inspiration, Installation, Joseph Beuys, Pattern, Production, Project, Public Art, Research, Sculpture, Social Engagement, Upcycling
My mind has been buzzing with thoughts of legendary environmentalist-artist Joseph Beuys as I’ve been hatching an idea for a public artwork that is not so much intrusive as inclusive, especially if you’re a native mason bee.It is the convergence of my love...
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