Research in artworks: Sculpture

Time Cones

Brad Golden & Lynne Eichenberg, Time ConesBrad Golden & Lynne Eichenberg, Time ConesBrad Golden & Lynne Eichenberg, Time ConesBrad Golden & Lynne Eichenberg, Time Cones
Time Cones mark the entrance plaza of this office tower. Incised into the spiral ribbon of the large cone and the top ring of the planter cones, a text by poet Christopher Dewdney describes the geolog [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Golden, Brad; Eichenberg, Lynne
Installation year: 
1996

Time Keepers

Elizabeth Roy, Time Keepers, 2001Elizabeth Roy, Time Keepers, 2001Elizabeth Roy, Time Keepers, 2001Elizabeth Roy, Time Keepers, 2001. © City of Vancouver
Seven figures representing local residents occupy various points on the grand staircase leading into the courtyard. Each figure includes specific quotes taken directly from the individual that the sil [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Roy, Elizabeth
Installation year: 
2001

Tome

Phil Morrison, Tome, 2002Phil Morrison, Tome, 2002
Totem made of washer-dryers [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Morrison, Phil
Installation year: 
2002

Turning

Eldon Garnet,Turning, 2004Eldon Garnet,Turning, 2004
TURNING is a tower which appears to be slightly out of balance, slightly askew, leaning. Text flows around three poles, gracefully spiraling upward as the tower ascends from the ground in three dire [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Garnet, Eldon
Installation year: 
2004

Un Jeudi soir à 5 h

Josée Fafard, Un jeudi soir à 15h, 2001Josée Fafard, Un jeudi soir à 15h, 2001
The work consists of nine suspended sculptures, approximately eight hundred small, colourful isosceles triangles and nine sentences or words, all attached to the ceiling. Each sculpture is associated [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Fafard, Josée
Installation year: 
2001

Unlimited Growth Increases The Divide

Kathryn Walter, Unlimited Growth IncreasesThe Divide, 1990Kathryn Walter, Unlimited Growth IncreasesThe Divide, 1990
The text consists of 7" copper letters installed above the entrance to the gallery. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Walter, Kathryn
Installation year: 
1990

Untitled

Colette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976Colette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976Colette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976. © Marc André BrouilletteColette Whiten, Contour Figures, 1976. © Marc André Brouillette
Silhouettes of human figures in wood or concrete. Engraved thoughts appear on the silhouettes and photographs, on the walls. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Whiten, Colette
Installation year: 
1976

Untitled

Lucienne Cornet, Sans Titre, 1983. © Renée Larochelle
The sculpture consists of two panels mounted onto two brick walls. The first panel is a long horizontal rectangle and presents different types of representations subject to the morphology of the first [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Cornet, Lucienne
Installation year: 
1983

Untitled

Eduardo Aquino, Johanne Sloan &  Kathryn Walter, Untitled, 1996. © Concordia UniEduardo Aquino, Johanne Sloan &  Kathryn Walter, Sans Titre, 1996Eduardo Aquino, Johanne Sloan &  Kathryn Walter, Sans Titre, 1996
4 structures used as tables. Engraved text appears on top. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Aquino, Eduardo; Sloan, Johanne; Walter, Kathryn
Installation year: 
1996

Untitled (Totem)

Myung Ji Kim, Untitled (Totem)
Totem with Korean writing. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Ji Kim, Myung

Urban Forest

Jill Anholt, Urban Forest, 2007Jill Anholt, Urban Forest, 2007Jill Anholt, Urban Forest, 2007
A cantilevered seating element, composed of multiple layers of laminated wood varieties, floats above a grid of embedded LED lighting and related arboreal text elements. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Anholt, Jill
Installation year: 
2007

Van

Phil Morrison, Van, 2002Phil Morrison, Van, 2002
Car pierced with letters. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Morrison, Phil
Installation year: 
2002

Vers tissés serré

L'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. © Marie-ClL'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. ©L'équipe Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux, Vers Tissés serré, 2010. © Marie-Cl
Created by assembling hundreds of glass jars, the installation Vers tissés serré sends visitors on a poetic journey through Montreal, with help from words by Gaston Miron, Pierre Nepveu, Jacques Braul [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
The Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Team
Installation year: 
2010

Vie-Vent

Normand Forget, Vie-Vent, 1997Normand Forget, Vie-Vent, 1997Normand Forget, Vie-Vent, 1997. © Denis Farley
The work consists of a hanging low relief sculpture and an installation in the floor's surface. The hanging sculpture is a reproduction of a maple tree samara. A plaque shaped like a wild cherry tree [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Forget, Normand
Installation year: 
1997

Visite du Pape Jean-Paul II à Hull

Marc St-Martin, Visite du Pape Jean-Paul II à Hull, 1991
Sculpture in the shape of a cylinder, resting on a cylindrical base and featuring an engraving of Pope John Paul II. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
St-Martin, Marc
Installation year: 
1991