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Placing public art in public spaces Create public art for civic and private development projects in the city. His work is in most major public collections in Canada and many private and corporate collections in North America and Europe. Al has been involved in numerous public art projects across Canada, as well as in the US and Japan. His brother Nathan Bomford lives and works on Vancouver Island and received his master of fine arts degree from the University of Victoria in All three have exhibited nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions.
Currently, their collaborative work Deadhead , a large-scale sculptural installation mounted to a barge, is touring the waterways of Greater Vancouver and may pop up in the most unexpected of locations. He has also completed public artworks in Toronto, Edmonton, St. Louis, New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Moritz, Vienna and Utrecht. There is a critical edge to his collation of identity with the influence of corporate power and mass media.
Rebecca Bayer is a Vancouver-based artist who examines the active relationships between people, material, and atmospheric surroundings. Bayer pursues these themes through art projects and proposals for urban public space in combination with her research and teaching interests.
In he moved to Ann Arbor and then San Francisco. In he moved permanently to Hornby Island, British Columbia, where he lived and worked until the end of his life.
Known for his innovative contribution to early holographic studies and his diverse practice as an artist who sought to disrupt and create new understandings of material space through sculpture and installation, his work has been shown and collected internationally since the late s and numerous monographs and artists' books have been published on his work.
He has a forthcoming exhibition at Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver in September of this year and in the Vancouver Art Gallery will mount a retrospective of his work. His installations have been shown across Canada and internationally; his solo exhibitions include Polarizer Southern Alberta Art Gallery, , Let us, then, be up and doing Barbara Cole is an artist, curator, educator, and curatorial consultant in public art. She is the founder and executive director of Other Sights for Artists' Projects, a non-profit society that collaborates and shares resources to present artworks that consider the aesthetic, economic, and regulatory conditions of public places and public life.
Barbara has led workshops, lectured widely, and published articles on the subject of art in public space. She has served on the boards of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Contemporary Art Gallery, is currently on the board of Artspeak Gallery, is a member of the PuSh Festival Leader's Council, and has participated as a jury member for numerous art initiatives.
Norma is a collective of seven artists, currently based in Canada and Japan. Despite their formalist impulses, the sculptures she creates are not without feeling. It is from these histories that her most evocative works emerge, rooted in a profound sense of dislocation and the search for a greater sense of place. Each sculpture is formed through an extensive hands-on process that employs traditional sculpting techniques alongside contemporary innovations in material and building standards.
Her timeless and unconstrained forms remain firmly situated in the contemporary moment, pushing the barriers of the medium where the surfaces reveal the entire process and the finished sculpture reveals the evolutionary method by which it was created.
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