This is an antique class washer on the side walk near Chinatown in Toronto. the rusted white enamel panel, the rubber hose and the rollers melted into the steel pins, an early over built appliance retired.
Old Washer On The Side Walk
This is an antique class washer on the side walk near Chinatown in Toronto. the rusted white enamel panel, the rubber hose and the rollers melted into the steel pins, an early over built appliance retired.
The Art Gallery of Alberta - VII, Another side of Henri Matisse
Matisse large seated nude original model 1922-1929, this bronze piece casted in 1930.
A Girl With A Cello Walking In Art Gallery Of Ontario
A girl with her cello walking across the entrance of the art gallery hall has been flattened by the back lights. It could be treated as a Micheal Snow cut out figure...
The Rex Hotel - Mirrored Column
The four-side mirrored column have projected the sight and sound in different directions.
Halloween Night At Hu So Bistro On Queen Street, Toronto
The red Lucifer honed waitress waiting at the pick up window on Halloween night on the left.The sushi chefs on the right preparing the orders on a busy festive evening of sake and
sushi party groups.
A View From HUB Mall - University Of Alberta, Edmonton
A view looking into the garden between the Rutherford Libraries (RHS) and the Arts & Convocation Hall (LHS).
The University of Alberta Fine Arts Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
The Brutalist staircase interior detail.(brutalism |ˈbroōtlˌizəm|noun
a style of architecture or art characterized by a deliberate plainness, crudity, or violence of imagery. The term was first applied to functionalist buildings of the 1950s and 1960s that made much use of steel and concrete in starkly massive blocks.)
History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
The Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta offers students an exciting and rigorous program leading to a Masters degree in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture. HADVC emphasizes critical thinking about how the world is mediated by technologies of vision, images and material objects. We offer a range of courses on modern and contemporary art and theory, design, new media, the graphic arts, and museum practices.
Ongoing and recently completed thesis topics include contemporary art and the representation of cancer, a comparative study of democratic design in East Germany and the United States; contemporary Chinese art and the conditions of globalization; anatomical wax sculptures; and the politics of collecting.
South Park On Whyte Pylon 1, Edmonton
The 60's red pylon is an iconic landmark on Whyte Avenue in Edmonton.
The University of Alberta HUB Mall.
HUB Mall is a combined shopping mall and student residence.
HUB has often been likened to a skyscraper turned on its side. By day it resembles a living wall; its sunlit interior is a centre of vitality on campus. At night, the great windows exude light from the building's heart, while a motley of bedroom windows pierces its concrete flanks. Bernard Wood, when he was president of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada; pointed to HUB as a "well known" demonstration that "low-rise, high-density housing can provide an adequate alternative to high-rises, with perhaps more desirable sociological implications."
The innovative design that prompted these remarks was provided by Toronto architects Jack Diamond and Barton Myers in association with Richard Wilkin of Edmonton. Diamond and Myers; who were also the prime consultants for the University's long-range development plan, had first attracted attention for their lively renovation of Yorkville Square in Toronto. In designing HUB, they once again combined old ideas and new, and also kept a close eye on the student lifestyle. The housing units provide tenants the privacy of their own cooking and bathroom facilities — a departure from traditional dorms — while features such as windowed stairwells and shutters opening from the housing units out into the commercial arcade encourage openness and a sense of community.
Four city blocks in length, construction of HUB Mall commenced in 1971. Unique in Canada, HUB Mall has 54 shops and services and can accommodate 838 students within its residence. With plenty of seating and six lounges throughout, HUB Mall is a wonderful place to meet friends, relax and soak up the energy of campus life. Whatever service you need or ethnic food you desire, you will find it all at HUB Mall. Just browse our mall directory for a list of our current merchants.
The roof over HUB Mall is being replaced and construction should be completed in early 2011. The Mall is open for business during construction and we are involved in the safety of our merchants and students on site.
http://www.ualberta.ca/ALUMNI/history/buildings/97authub.htm
http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/hubmall/
The Art Gallery of Alberta - VI, Another side of Henri Matisse
La Pompabour 1951, a line traced.The world knows him best as a master of vivid colour and sculptural form.
But the 50-year career of Henri Matisse also includes an astonishing proliferation of prints, in every possible medium and technique, as Edmonton is about to find out, first-hand. It's this rich, much-less-explored identity of the great French artist, one of the seminal figures in modern art, that inspires the touring exhibition Henri Matisse: A Celebration of Light and Line, opening Saturday at the Art Gallery of Alberta.
Matisse the painter and Matisse the sculptor have long occupied the cultural stage. Rarely seen at all, and never hitherto together, the 170 works in the show shed light on Matisse the printmaker, 1900 to 1951. The works were curated by Jay M. Fisher, the Baltimore Museum of Art's deputy director of curatorial affairs and senior curator of prints, drawings and photographs.
And Matisse is a remarkably innovative, dexterous and intense communicator, according to Fisher, who has supplemented some 150 etchings, mono-types, lithographs, linocuts, aquatints, drypoints, woodcuts and colour prints with a selection of related paintings, sculptures, drawings and even books.
What do they reveal about this wildly versatile artist? "You see Matisse's openness," says Fisher, on the phone from his Baltimore office. "You see his way of working; you experience, in a human way, how he transforms what he sees. ... You see evidence of change, of transformation, an evolution before your eyes, as an idea moves forward. Sometimes the print leads to the painting; in other cases, it's the other way around."
That "dynamic in terms of the spectator" is a Matisse signature in everything he created, Fisher explains. "Matisse worked devotedly in all of the media he undertook, and in an integrated way. ... But the wonderful thing about his printmaking is that he felt comfortable about explaining his creative process, the way he saw through things. It's just more evident in the prints."
Prints, after all, are made to be multiple, the curator points out. "The artist has made a decision to share."
"Often the prints are in series," Fisher says. "So you might see a model in the studio from 10 points of view, 10 different ways of looking at the same thing ... reclining, standing, seated, arms above head, facial expressions and features. ... There's a continuance of expression, and also a continual modification.
"In many works, he refers back to what he did earlier. His works are conversations: There's continuity, but always
development in a serial way to something new. ... Sometimes he works with one idea simultaneously in different mediums."
Fisher's arrangement of the exhibition is essentially chronological. "Matisse develops his ideas in a chronological way. ... It starts with painting, then drypoints and etching. Then a series of woodcuts and pen-and-ink drawings. Then he takes up lithography -- there's a chronological march to it.
"Artists are mostly all ahead of their time," argues Fisher. "But while Matisse tried new things and was sometimes avant-garde, he was not quite as anxious to be revolutionary as (his friend and rival Pablo) Picasso." His career spanned some of the most dramatic, turbulent and violent events of the 20th century, two World Wars, but you don't find tangible evidence in Matisse.
"There's a constancy and centred-ness about Matisse, who didn't come to the artist's life till he was in his 30s, too late to go to art school. He wasn't a prodigy; he had to work very hard to catch up."
"I don't think of him as an intellectual artist," says Fisher. "He didn't create a public persona. He painted within the experience of his own personal growth. It neutralizes any kind of (larger) narrative." In 1913, for example, while Europe headed precipitously toward war, Matisse was in his studio, experimenting with his early lithographs, "a point of radical change for him. ... It's so interesting to see these prints, so calm by comparison. So personal and intimate."
Sixty-seven of the prints in Henri Matisse: A Celebration of Light and Line are drawn from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation collection. To them, Fisher has added works from the Baltimore Museum of Art's celebrated Cone Collection, the continent's largest repository of Matisse prints.
The AGA exhibition is double the size of the version on display in Austin, Texas, this past summer.
"A richer experience," says Fisher, who will deliver a sold-out introduction to the exhibition at the AGA Friday at 6 p.m. "More ways for you to test yourself: Why do you think he did it this way? What do you he think he was after? How has his attitude changed in the course of a series?"
"It really makes you look."
Another side of Henri Matisse
Art Gallery of Alberta exhibit sheds light on rarely seen prints of famous French painter, sculptor
By Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/Another+side+Henri+Matisse/3731993/story.html?id=3731993&cid=megadrop_story
The Art Gallery of Alberta - V
The interior view of the staircase.A design by Los Angeles architect Randall Stout was chosen as the winning design for the new Art Gallery. At this time, the gallery re-titled itself again as the Art Gallery of Alberta.
AGO - When the Bough Breaks, 2010 by Shary Boyle
An installation of a tree with a swing and a baby doll the lighting created a mid-night forest scene with a child swinging upside down.
AGO - B-V-V-0168 painting, 1968 by Yves Gauchier
Acrylic on canvas - grey on grey painting : non-object; non-physical and non-colour.
AGO - Untitled, 1991 by Betty Goodwin
The sculpture - Untitled ( Nest & Stone ).A plexiglass, galvanized steel, metal wire and hardware, twigs, graves,leaves, bark, stone structure.
The work and life of Eve Hesse was a great influence on Goodwin.
AGO - Salon Georgia Ridley
From the Salon Georgia Ridley - the door connected other exhibition spaces and paintings.
The Art Gallery of Alberta - IV
The frontal exterior view of the gallery with the reflection of nearby buildings.
The Art Gallery of Alberta - II
The free form metal panels curved around the void to shutter the lobby view.
The Art Gallery of Alberta - I
The Art Gallery of Alberta (formerly the Edmonton Art Gallery) is a public art gallery located in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Its collection of well over 6,000 works of art includes historical and contemporary paintings, sculptures, installation works and photographs by Canadian and international artists. In addition to its permanent collection, the AGA hosts visiting exhibitions and offers public education programs.The vision statement of the AGA is: "The Art Gallery of Alberta creates a welcoming and engaging environment where people are motivated to transform their understanding of the world by connecting with the visual arts."
Originally designed in 1968 as a Brutalist building by Don Bittorf, the gallery recently underwent an $88 million renovation designed by Randall Stout Architects. It reopened in January, 2010. The newly renovated 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m2) space includes almost double the exhibition space of the original building; a restaurant, gallery shop, and 150 seat theatre; and dedicated gallery space for the AGA's permanent collection.
Response to the post-renovation AGA have shown success in Alberta, receiving significant increases in annual memberships and 30,000 visitors within the first six weeks of reopening.
In 2005, and architectural competition was held, and a design by Los Angeles architect Randall Stout was chosen as the winning design for the new Art Gallery. At this time, the gallery re-titled itself again as the Art Gallery of Alberta. In April 2007, most of the Bittorf building was demolished with significant portions of the existing structure incorporated into Stout's design. Local architects and engineering firms assisted Randall Stout's design team from LA and San Francisco. The local firms were HIP Architects (Architects), Stantec (Mechanical and Electrical), BPTEC (Structural) and RJC (Envelope). Ledcor provided the Construction Management.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_Art_Gallery
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