Research in artworks: Permanent

Untitled

The work consists of six panels that are used as doors. Each contains seven partially superimposed vertical boards. Their black surfaces feature carved text (a total of 2,200 letters) reproducing a le [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Vaillancourt, Armand
Installation year: 
1984

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

Vertige

Josée Dubeau, Vertige, 2006Josée Dubeau, Vertige, 2006Josée Dubeau, Vertige, 2006Josée Dubeau, Vertige, 2006
A single, twisted column of used books occupies the main stairwell of the Chelsea municipal library. Six meters in height, this column reaches from the ground floor to the ceiling of the second f [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Dubeau, Josée
Installation year: 
2006

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

Voir

The artwork is in two parts, one entitled Voir, the other, Toile de vie. Both works are part of the Books in stone series. The artwork consists of two books placed on metal displays on either side of [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Stromberg, Susan
Installation year: 
1994

Volatiles

Rose-Marie E. Goulet, Volatiles, 1997. © Rose-Marie E. Goulet
The artwork consists of word structures hanging above the water basin. These colourful structures feature cut-outs. The words appear to form birds. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Goulet, Rose-Marie E.
Installation year: 
1997

Vox non echo

Gilbert Poissant, Vox non echo, 1999
The round mural consists of three earthenware pieces painted with aluminum strips. It features two steel blue half-moons and a white square in the middle, along with a few touches of red and yellow. T [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Poissant, Gilbert
Installation year: 
1999

Voyages des quatre saisons d’un homme millénaire (Progeria Longaevus)

Richard Purdy, Voyages des quatre saisons d’un homme millénaire, 1994Richard Purdy, Voyages des quatre saisons d’un homme millénaire, 1994Richard Purdy, Voyages des quatre saisons d’un homme millénaire, 1994
The sculpture consists of a drawing depicting the life of a one thousand year-old man,  born in Venice in 992. [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Purdy, Richard
Installation year: 
1992

Vytaieno

Dawn Mcnutt, Vytaieno, 1992Dawn Mcnutt, Vytaieno, 1992
The statue displays the 1891 and 1991 Canadian flags as a display of past, present and future. The bread and the salt placed on an embroidered towel is a traditional Ukrainian welcome representing lif [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Mcnutt, Dawn
Installation year: 
1992

Wander

Derek Besant, Wander, 2005Derek Besant, Wander, 2005
Transit station 72-panel glass ceiling with text [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Besant, Derek
Installation year: 
2005

Weave

Douglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André BrouilletteDouglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André BrouilletteDouglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André BrouilletteDouglas Senft, Weave, 2002. © Marc André Brouillette
The work addresses the history of Coal Harbour and is comprised of four parts. 1) Three bronze rings (8' diameter) and one bronze half-ring (15' in diameter) are cast into the paving stones that [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Senft, Douglas
Installation year: 
2002

Welcome to the Land of Light

Henry Tsang, Welcome to the Land of Light, 1997. © Marc André BrouilletteHenry Tsang, Welcome to the Land of Light, 1997. © Marc André BrouilletteHenry Tsang, Welcome to the Land of Light, 1997. © Marc André BrouilletteHenry Tsang, Welcome to the Land of Light, 1997. © Marc André Brouillette
Aluminum letters spelling out phrases in Chinook (an early coastal trading language) and English are placed along the railing of the sea wall, in two parallel lines. Coloured light pulses through an i [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Tsang, Henry
Installation year: 
1997

Western Spirit

Robert Dow Reid, Western Spirit, 1985
The sculpture consists of four Canadian Geese soaring in the air and is appropriately titled Western Spirit. The sculpture is dedicated to George C. Solomon.  [...]
Artwork creator(s): 
Reid, Robert Dow
Installation year: 
1985