by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 15, 2013 | Aesthetics, Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Installation, Production, Public Art, Sculpture, Vancouver
A few weeks back, one of the local dailies ran a staff photo of a grumpy-looking woman wearing a hand-drawn sign around her neck that read: “Mount Pleasant needs a pool not a poodle on a pole.” God, I miss the newsroom sometimes. When that kind of photo lands on your...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 8, 2013 | Aesthetics, Fashion, Garment, Industrial Design, Innovation, Production, Vancouver
I’m not a sports person. Elementary-school Sports Day was an annual hell. But the bike-decorating portion, now that was my kind of competition. Even today I get choked up when I catch a glimpse of that one artsy kid in a community event proudly parading a...
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...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 18, 2013 | Gallery, Openings, Painting, Vancouver
It’s a quandary, going to a commercial-gallery show opening for the likes of Important Canadian Artist Attila Richard Lukacs. I’m a short person and this is a small art town, which means I end up confronting a lot of chests and backs in what is always a crush, because...
by Carlyn Yandle | Jan 4, 2013 | Cirque Du Soleil, Collaboration, Dance, Inspiration, Pattern, Performance, Psychedelic, Vancouver
I got the gift of a visual feast for Christmas: a date to see some performance-art mastery by Cirque du Soleil. And it was no less a sensory experience than the first show I saw when Alegria debuted in Vancouver in ’03.Amaluna also has an operatic storyline but...
by Carlyn Yandle | Dec 28, 2012 | Art, Gallery, Inspiration, Painting, Vancouver
Mukai has been quietly working and reworking her paintings and drawings for 30 years. Painting feels a lot like grasping for words to me. There’s general comprehension there, thanks to some study, but I don’t have enough command of my own visual language to express...
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