Memories of Andy Livingston Park by Larisse Bacani, cardboard and acrylic paint, seen last week at the 2012 Foundation show at ECUAD.
The Cambie Hostel; a work in gouache, ink, arcylic, and wood from 2011, submitted by Natasha Shubaly.
Mix and Match Your Own Vancouver Special, a mixed media handmade pop-up book designed, illustrated, and constructed by Priscilla Yu, 2009. Priscilla writes:
The book showcases Vancouver’s most loathed boxy homes, characterized by its seeming love of stucco, Italian imported wooden front doors, and cookie-cutter design. Rethinking and embracing it’s aesthetic, in a whimsical way, the seven-paged book is an interactive experience, where the reader can play builder in selecting a series of “tops” and “bottoms” to create their very own Vancouver Special homes.
Priscilla Yu is a fourth year illustration student at Emily Carr University. She lives in and was raised in a surburb within Vancouver, and loves anything to do with houses.
More images here, along with video. Thanks for the submission, Priscilla!
Dominion Bridge advertisement, from the March 1954 issue of the BC Professional Engineer. This artwork is just barely appropriate here, as it is essentially comprised of a retouched photograph, but perhaps just this once I will dedicate this post to the unknown photo retouching artist. The ad provides some interesting documentation of the construction of the current Granville Street bridge which opened on February 4, 1954. Inside the magazine, there is an in-depth article titled “The Traffic Aspect of the New Granville Street Bridge” by K. Vaughan-Birch, required reading for any urban design students studying bridges today! Tweet me if you’d like to read this issue!
CBC Channel 2 CBUT production artwork of a Vancouver skyline from the late 1960’s on 11 x 14 showcard, part of an ongoing series of impressions of Vancouver in a variety of styles by New West artist Jerry McLaughlin, preparing a show of recent paintings for a show at the Queens Park Gallery May 1, 2011.
