Public Artwork

Stay Away From Lonely Places

Ron Terada, Stay Away From Lonely Places, 2005
Location:
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, 274 East 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Terada, Ron
Text author(s): 
Nelson, Willie
Installation year: 
2005
Remarks on location: 
Displayed on the gallery front
Description: 

Installation of words on the façade of a building

Text of the artwork: 

STAY AWAY
FROM LONELY PLACES

Text theme: 
Warning; solitude; song title ("Stay Away From Lonely Places") written by Willie Nelson and Don Bowman.
Artwork theme: 

Anxiety linked to individual condition present in social misfits or the excluded; migration experience

History: 

March 1-November 1, 2006. The piece mounted onto Chapel & Sunday School in Birmingham's Eastside regeneration district.

 

Stay Away From Lonely Places, presented in conjunction with the Ron Terada exhibition, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, May 20-June 25, 2005

 

Event date(s): 
2005

Dimensions:

Height: 
0.83m
Width: 
3.22m
Depth: 
0.27 m
Document(s): 

Intertidal : Vancouver Art &Artists

Watson, Scott (2005).  Intertidal : Vancouver Art &Artists. Vancouver : Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, p. 205