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‘Glitched’ Plymouth ‘Carbon Copy’ Stands in Edmonton Brewery District

"Carbon Copy" is a "glitch sculpture," a piece of public art in a Canadian parking lot that manipulates a a 1988 Plymouth Caravelle K-car. The sculpture comes from duo Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett, who were commissioned to create the piece for the Edmonton Brewery District.

“Carbon Copy” is a “glitch sculpture,” a piece of public art in a Canadian parking lot that manipulates a a 1988 Plymouth Caravelle K-car. The sculpture comes from duo Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett, who were commissioned to create the piece for the Edmonton Brewery District.

The pair have been collaborating since 2011. “Using mass-produced objects as a reference to cities as an immeasurable quantity of materials, people, and situations, Caitlind & Wayne evoke the possibility of renewed understanding through a critical shift in perspective,” a statement says. “Beautiful, subversive, playful, and radically inclusive, their work emphasizes transformation above all else.”

See more of the duo’s work below.

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Caitlind r.c. Brown, Public art, Wayne Garrett

Fete le Vin, Jeff Soto, Public art

July 1, 2014

Jeff Soto's (HF Vol. 16 cover artist) enigmatic creations contain both friendly creatures and personifications of the forces of the Earth, balancing a sense of innocence with the suggestion of a deeper power below the surface. The otherworldly characters skip spryly through his canvases and murals, their bodies and limbs composed of bubbling mud, mighty tree trunks and light tufts of moss. The artist recently traveled to Bordeaux, France for a public art project for the Fête le Vin 2014. The Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute invited Soto as a special guest in partnership with Spacejunk, an urban art gallery with locations all over France. While he was in the area, Soto painted a large wall at Darwin, an interdisciplinary cultural center and co-working space focused on sustainability.

José Luis Torres Builds Explosive Installation Out of Plastic Objects

found objects, installation, José Luis Torres, Public art, sculpture

August 25, 2015

José Luis Torres is an Argentinean artist currently living in Quebec who builds largescale works out of salvaged objects. He's set up public art installations and sculptures all over the world, using everything from antique doors, window panes, to assemblages of brightly colored plastic as his materials. Often, his works have an overflowing effect as they burst from existing environments and architectural structures. His latest work entitled "Overflows" is a part of the 2015 Passages Insolites (Unusual Passages) event in Quebec City’s Old Port.

Os Gemeos Paint “Giants,” Their Largest Mural to Date at the Vancouver Bienalle

Giants, Open Air Museum, Os Gemeos, Public art, Vancouver Biennale

September 8, 2014

Brazilian twin artists Os Gemeos are always taking it up a notch. Last May, they adorned a Boeing 737 with the character-driven art to escort the Brazilian team to the FIFA World Cup (see our coverage here). In August, the brothers took on their biggest project to date: an enormous 75-foot-tall, 360-degree mural that measures a total of 23,500 square feet. Envisioned as a non-profit public artwork for the Vancouver Biennale, the piece is intended to leave a lasting mark on the Ocean Cement silos amid the industrial landscape of Vancouver's Granville Island. The project was funded via a crowd funding campaign and is included in the Vancouver Biennale's 2014-2016 programming as part of a series of large-scale public works they're calling an Open Air Museum. Granville Island attracts over 10 million annual visitors and the Biennale's organizers hope that the scale of this project will make it a major art destination for years to come.

The Black-and-White Murals of Paola Delfín

mural, Paola Delfín, Public art

April 30, 2019

Paola Delfín’s riveting murals, though monochromatic, are teeming with life on walls across the world. The artist’s recent works, adorning structures in Belgium, Cuba, and Cayman Islands, move between eye-level and towering works, such as the The Crystal Ship piece shown above and below. The artist was born in Mexico City.

‘Glitched’ Plymouth ‘Carbon Copy’ Stands in Edmonton Brewery District

Jeff Soto’s New Mural and Public Art Installation in France

José Luis Torres Builds Explosive Installation Out of Plastic Objects

Os Gemeos Paint “Giants,” Their Largest Mural to Date at the Vancouver Bienalle

The Black-and-White Murals of Paola Delfín

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