Public Artwork

Wordlink

Karen Kazmer, Wordlink, 2001
Karen Kazmer, Wordlink, 2001
Karen Kazmer, Wordlink, 2001
Location:
Kinsmen Park, 1990 Jones Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Artwork creator(s): 
Kazmer, Karen
Text author(s): 
Kazmer, Karen
Installation year: 
2001
Remarks on location: 

Mahon neighbourhood; redesigned fieldhouse, now the washroom building.

Description: 

Kinsmen Park New Washroom Building: The redesigned fieldhouse with washrooms incorporated sculptural chain link fence panels, stainless steel discs with sports action words bouncing around on them, polished stainless steel mirrors etched with words and a concrete floor cast with action words. The building's interior and exterior were painted deep orange and red.

Text of the artwork: 

slice

swift

fly

slider

toss

Note(s): 

Artist Statement: My intention with this project was to create a curvilinear visual poetry with materials that would normally be found on a baseball or soccer field.

- North Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs (2006). Public Art. North Vancouver Public Art Inventory. Wordlink. <http://www.artsalivenorthshore.ca/PA_artwork_home.cfm?PublicArtID=39>

 

Budget: Art Design, Fabrication and Installation $32,000

Artist's biography: 
Kazmer, Karen
Propriétaire(s): 
City of Vancouver Nord (North Vancouver)
Document(s): 

Portfolio. Public Art

Urban_Art_Management (2008).  Portfolio. Public Art. <http://www.urbanartmanagement.com/portfolio.html> : Urban Art Management

Public Art. North Vancouver Public Art Inventory. Wordlink

North_Vancouver (2009).  Public Art. North Vancouver Public Art Inventory. Wordlink. <http://www.artsoffice.ca/public_art/collection/public_art28.php?title=28> : City of North Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs