Research in artworks: Permanent

The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home

Leah Decter, The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home, 2008. ©Leah Decter, The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home, 2008. © Marc André BrouLeah Decter, The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home, 2008. © Marc André BrouLeah Decter, The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home, 2008
The entire piece is composed of radiating circles. The inner circle of the compass consists of a planter component, which was devised by talking to Elders, botanists and local community members to sel [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Decter, Leah
Installation year: 
2008

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

Those Little Things

Gilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André BrouilletteGilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André BrouilletteGilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André BrouilletteGilbert Boyer,Those Little Things, 2003. © Marc André Brouillette
Set of rectangular stones laid on the ground. Texts appear in several languages. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Boyer, Gilbert
Installation year: 
2003

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

Touchez, Touché!

Gilbert Poissant, Touchez,Touché!, 2006Gilbert Poissant, Touchez,Touché!, 2006
Three porcelain murals blending textures, tones and finishes. The diptych located at 1,500 rue des Vétérinaires evokes a gigantic human hand; in the mural located at the Pet Clinic, it is the animal t [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Poissant, Gilbert
Installation year: 
2006

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Lisette Lemieux, Transcription 92, 1992Lisette Lemieux, Transcription 92, 1992Lisette Lemieux, Transcription 92, 1992
The mural unfolds on the 18 glass panels of a curtain wall and on a painted drywall surface mounted on the adjacent wall. Evoking a musical staff, each glass panel features 5 superimposed words. They [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Lemieux, Lisette
Installation year: 
1992

Traversée

Lucie Duval, Traversée, 1998Lucie Duval, Traversée, 1998Lucie Duval, Traversée, 1998
A "ribbon" of glass with embedded metal parts hangs in the lobby along the axis of the architectural structure connecting the second and third floors. The sentence "Tout à coup sur fond de ciel une br [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Duval, Lucie
Installation year: 
1998

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

Triptyque

Betty Goodwin, Triptyque,1991
Giant ears with engraved text on the ground. The installation consists of a sculpture and mirrors attached to the wall, as well as inlays on the ground. Asculpted bronze ear is reflected in the angled [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Goodwin, Betty
Installation year: 
1991

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