by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 7, 2014 | Art Discourse, Art School, Culture Jamming, Dude-chilling-park, Fabricating, Guerrilla Art, Industrial Design, Installation, Public Art, Sculpture, Social History
It’s official: the Dude Chilling Park sign, a guerrilla-art installation by recent Emily Carr industrial design grad Viktor Briestensky, has been reinstated, with full approval by the city’s parks board.Something was gained, but something was lost in...
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...
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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 13, 2013 | Architecture, Art, Collaboration, Dance, Innovation, Installation, New Forms Festival, Perception, Performance, Public Art, Sculpture, Street Art, Vancouver, Visual Field
You can thank Europeans’ dwindling Christian faith for a sensory bombardment that’s taking over Europe. The poor attendance at all the churches and cathedrals has been a boon to a new totally immersive art-architecture experience of sound and image,...
by Carlyn Yandle | Sep 6, 2013 | Color, Colour, Commission, Creative Process, Design, Graffiti, Industry, Installation, Paint, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Pattern, Process, Project, Public Art, Quilt, Safety, Street Art
I could never understand why the armies of construction workers in this town would head for the Wendy’s or Burger King over a nutritious, fresh soup and salad next door. That was before I started spending long days under a respirator spraypainting in a cavern of...
by Carlyn Yandle | Aug 16, 2013 | Additive, Art, Color, Colour, Composition, Craft, Creative Process, Design, Fabric, Fiber, Graffiti, Inspiration, Installation, Painting, Parkade Quilt, Public Art, Quilt, Street Art, Textile, Visual Field
This is my new favourite colour box, a delicious array of cans of Montana spraypaint. All packed up to take to my largest quilt project to date.Now I finally get my chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for years: blanketing a big, blank white concrete wall...
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