Time Top By Jerry Pethick Time Top is a piece about time traveling. The artist has created what looks like a 1940s-style space ship. The piece was submerged for two years so that the surface would become encrusted with sea life. The sculpture was given a low-level electrical charge to attract crustaceans to its surface. Its position on the shoreline encourages the idea that it has washed up from the depths. Artist Statement: “The inspiration [...]
Eros Bendato Scrippolato By Igor Mitoraj Location : Yaletown Park, Nelson Street, Vancouver. Media : Patinated bronze Igor Mitoraj, is one of the foremost Polish artists and one of a few to have gained international success, creates gigantic figures of ancient gods, heroes, muses and titans, often depicting them as bandaged heroic figures. Long fascinated with the beauty of Greek and Roman sculptures, his work exhibits a contemporary sensitivity, but references back to a lost [...]
Waterwork By Tony Bloom Tony Bloom Waterwork photograph was created on an overcast day using a nice shallow depth of field. I really like the mood of this piece. Sculptor Tony Bloom works primarily in steel, copper, bronze, and aluminum, producing sculpture which ranges from intimate, hand-held objects to outdoor monumental-sized plaza pieces. Often Tony Bloom’s artwork involves or implies movement, sound, water, or wind, and can have a functional aspect or reference, such as [...]
Hand Sculpture On Granville Street One of the many wonderful sculptures lining Granville Street. Various art pieces have been on show along the pedestrian strip of Granville Street, north of Robson Street, since before the Olympics. Not sure who designed it, I know there is a placard on it but, silly me forgot to take note .. Update soon.
Vancouver Graffiti .. More Love Another instance of the Graffiti of my “Love” post from a few months ago. This piece of graffiti art shows up all over my area of Vancouver .. I believe it’s from a guy who was jilted by his lover; he must of done something really bad, because after all these attempts at retribution, even I would want him back .. Love this “Dog Love” art! A wonderful piece of [...]
Hospital Art In St. Paul’s Vancouver St.Paul’s hospital in Vancouver has many of it’s walls covered with local art, it really brightens the hospital corridors whilst you follow the lined department pathways. This photo is of my Wife viewing hospital art whilst waiting for the elevator. She has just had a operation to remove bone fragments from her paw. Does art have a place in hospitals? Grayson Perry (Article taken from the British Times Newspaper) [...]
Image of the sculpture ’217.5 ARC X13′ by the French artist Bernar Venet, shown as part of the Vancouver Sculpture Bienalle. The problem with art is that it always seems to come into our lives from out of nowhere, like a surprise party. One day you’re doing some very normal things – jogging the seawall, awaiting the arrival of your half-caff latte, thinking about sushi – when BAM, there it is. Something way out of [...]
Statue In The Evening Light .. this is one of the many art exhibits along English Bay On Vancouver’s beaches .. Love the Black and white treatment in this photograph.
