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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 22, 2013 | Art Discourse, Art History, Art School, Artist Statement, Creative Process, Crochet, Cultural Studies, Doilies, Doily, Ideas, Joseph Beuys, Knotting, Maker, Performance, Performance Art, Process, Project, Social History
My biggest obstacle is over-thinking — not to be confused with big thinking. Over-thinking is my umbrella term for all the second-guessing, the predicting, the analyzing and the re-thinking that can turn my mind into a maelstrom. It’s unproductive and it’s...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 15, 2013 | Art, Culture, Photography, Social History, Vancouver
Venerable city newspaper reporter John Mackie has an eye for old things Vancouver. He was intrinsic in the broad-daylighting of Fred Herzog’s mid-century images, and more recently he has given deserved public exposure to a visual goldmine of prints by Vancouver Sun...
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