Research in artworks: Contest

Third Garden

Warren Quigley & Millie Chen,Third Garden, 2002Warren Quigley & Millie Chen,Third Garden, 2002Warren Quigley & Millie Chen,Third Garden, 2002
Third Garden is designed as a monument to local memory. This garden refers to the past use of the surrounding grounds as a healing site for psychiatric care, and to current day use as regenerated land [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Chen, Millie; Quigley, Warren
Installation year: 
2002

This Thing

Micah Lexier, This Thing, 1991
Lettering on the edge of the roof [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Lexier, Micah
Installation year: 
1991

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

Time: and a Clock

Eldon Garnet, Time : and a Clock, 2004. © Marc André BrouilletteEldon Garnet, Time : and a Clock, 2004. © Marc André BrouilletteEldon Garnet, Time : and a Clock, 2004. © Marc André BrouilletteEldon Garnet, Time : and a Clock, 2004. © Marc André Brouillette
It is the essence of time, its substance and ambiguity, that is examined in this sculpture/installation. This is one work in three sites. It encircles the Queen/Broadview area with text. Three diffe [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Garnet, Eldon
Installation year: 
2004

Tree of Knowledge, fragments

Nancy Chew  & Jacqueline Metz, Tree of Knowledge, fragments, 2008Nancy Chew  & Jacqueline Metz, Tree of Knowledge, fragments, 2008Nancy Chew  & Jacqueline Metz, Tree of Knowledge, fragments, 2008
Engraved images carved into bluestone suggest fragments of a magnificent tree, shadows of the Tree of Knowledge. Dappled amongst the imagery are literary quotes personally selected by library donors [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Chew, Nancy; Metz, Jacqueline
Installation year: 
2008

Tri, Making the Impossible Possible

John Tam & Rob Hora,Tri, Making the Impossible Possible, 2003John Tam & Rob Hora,Tri, Making the Impossible Possible, 2003John Tam & Rob Hora,Tri, Making the Impossible Possible, 2003
The artwork is a colourful optical illusion of a giant steel ball suspended in the centre of a triangle. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Tam, John; Hora, Rob
Installation year: 
2003

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

Uncoverings

Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998Jill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André BrouilletteJill Anholt & Susan Ockwell, Uncoverings, 1998. © Marc André Brouillette
Four round glass and steel covers are inset into the sidewalk over the ventilation shafts of an underground heating system. They are lit from underneath at night and steam may be seen to escape a [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Anholt, Jill; Ockwell, Susan
Installation year: 
1998

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

Justin Wonnacott, Untitled, 2003. © Justin WonnacottJustin Wonnacott, Untitled, 2003. © Justin Wonnacott
Circle embedded into the ground. In the middle, there is an image of a rabbit; on the perimeter, flames and text. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Wonnacott, Justin
Installation year: 
2003

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

Liz Garlicki, Untitled, 2008. © Marc André BrouilletteLiz Garlicki, Sans titre, 2008Liz Garlicki, Untitled, 2008. © Marc André Brouillette
Inscription on the sidewalk [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Garlicki, Liz
Installation year: 
2008

Untitled

Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972Jordi Bonet, Untitled, 1972
Mural and door on a church [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Bonet, Jordi
Installation year: 
1972

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