Medecine Wheel is painted on the north side of the June Callwood Center for Women, Parliament Street.
It faces a vacant lot that is surrounded on the three other sides by chain link fence.
Locked gate. No entry.
Posts Tagged ‘downtown’
medicine wheel
Posted: June 26, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: art, downtown, face, First Nations, june callwood center, man, medecine wheel, medicine wheel, mural, parliament st., street art, Toronto, urban art
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100 Workers
Posted: May 20, 2015 in memorialsTags: 100 workers, accidents, deaths, downtown, Front St., John Scott, memorial, safety, Simcoe Park, statue, Stewart Pollock, Toronto, workplace safety, WSIB
100 Workers,
aka WSIB (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) Simcoe Park Workers Monument,
a monument commemorating the workers of Ontario who died in the workplace,
by John Scott and Stewart H. Pollock.
Located downtown on Front Street between Simcoe and John.
Each plaque on along the top of the wall commemorates one person, one from each year between 1901 and 1999. Deaths are from mining accidents, industrial accidents, train crashes, silicosis, asbestosis, and the like. At the end, there is one blank plaque to represent future accidents.
Demolition at MOCCA
Posted: May 7, 2015 in galleriesTags: car, CONTACT, courtyard, crass advertising, demolition, downtown, Korean, large, MOCCA, Museum of Contemporary Canadian art, photography, red room, rubble, Toronto, wall
‘Demolition Site’ by Jihyun Jung,
at MOCCA as part of the CONTACT photography festival
This Korean artist visits demolition sites where he paints one of the rooms red.
Over time, he documents the changes to this room as demolition proceeds.
below: One of his photographs of a red room covers the entire wall at MOCCA.
One of the walls of the courtyard in front of MOCCA is covered with one of his photographs. It is 30 feet long. Very annoyingly, a car was parked in front of it the day I was there. It was promoting a car dealership in return for their support of an exhibit at the gallery that shares courtyard space with MOCCA. The two planters with the tall evergreens are very tacky too.
trees in Brookfield Place
Posted: May 7, 2015 in galleriesTags: Allen Lambert Galleria, banners, Brookfield Place, CONTACT, downtown, Myoung Ho Lee, photography, Toronto, trees
‘Tree’ by Myoung Ho Lee,
an art installation at the Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place,
part of CONTACT Photography Festival,
Six large banners (12.5 x 10 ft) are hung from the ceiling such that they look like they’re standing upright.
Each banner has a picture of a lone tree taken with a white canvas backdrop.
According to the description of the installation, Lee “transforms the common tree into a highly theatrical and mysterious entity”.
I’m going to disagree. It’s an interesting visual effect having the large banners arranged as they are but I see the trees as static, captive entities. Trees as museum pieces. That’s my two cents worth.
Best Beach, and others, on Bay
Posted: April 21, 2015 in locations, public artTags: Bay St., CONTACT, downtown, Harbour St., Ivan Kostov, Judith Schwarz, photography, public art, Queens Quay, sculpture, Toronto
The last block at the south end of Bay Street is closed to traffic at the moment because of the continuing, i.e. never ending, construction on Queens Quay. In that block there are now three pieces of public art. The most recent addition is a large photograph by Sarah Ann Johnson that covers a large portion of the west wall of the Westin Harbour Castle Conference Centre.
‘Best Beach’ is a welcome addition to the bunker-like structure of the Westin Hotel. It is part of this year’s CONTACT photography festival and it is scheduled to remain here until the end of December. StreetARToronto and Partners in ART also played a role in bringing this project to life.
UPDATED: There is now a youtube video on this installation, produced by the City of Toronto.
Two small sculptures are also on this block, one on the SW corner of Harbour and Bay and the other on the NW corner of Queens Quay and Bay. Both are difficult to take photos of!
First, ‘The Wave’ by Ivan Kostov
Second, ‘Nautilius’ by Judith Schwarz
Toronto has a habit of cluttering up its sidewalks and public art like this one tends to become just another part of the mess. There is no overall plan. Placement of public art might look great on paper but does anyone take into consideration all the other stuff? Stuff that doesn’t appear on architects’ drawings – the garbage bins, newspaper boxes, TTC signs, phone booths, no parking signs, hydro poles, and such things like that.
And lastly, I couldn’t resist this little guy who’s stuck on a Bell payphone.
alley bunnies
Posted: March 23, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: 416, abm crew, abmcrew, bunnies, city, downtown, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, graffiti animals, photography, photos, poser, Queen St. West, rabbits, stairs, street art, tags, tdot, Toronto, urban, urban art, walls
Back to Graffiti Alley for the first time this spring… well, for the first time since the snow melted since I’m not sure you can call it spring yet!
Here are a few poser and abm crew bunnies that I saw.
eyes in the alley
Posted: March 23, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: @jchiale, abstract, alley, city, doors, downtown, eyes, faces, garages, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, Jimmy Chiale, Jon Todd, knuts, lane, mouth, Niagara St., slaps, stickers, street art, stylized, teeth, urban, walls
I went back to Graffiti Alley the other day.
When I was just east of Niagara Street I noticed these eyes looking at me.
A small blue Stickman sneaks into the photo too!
Three faces painted on a garage door by Jon Todd.
by Jimmy Chiale
…and a mouth too!
Links for more information
Chinatown mural
Posted: February 27, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: Aaron Li-Hill, Alexa Hatanaka, alley, bike, child, Chinatown, Chinatown BIA, Chinese, city, downtown, Dundas St. West, lane, man, mural, people, street art, Toronto
Chinatown Mural
2011 by Alexa Hatanaka and Aaron Li-Hill
Commissioned by the Chinatown BIA & located in an alley near Dundas & Spadina.
The mural is based on scenes from everyday life in Toronto’s Chinatown.
yet another proposal
Posted: February 2, 2015 in locationsTags: another one bites the dust, bathurst, changes, condos, construction, development proposal, downtown, empty, infill, old house, Toronto
Development proposal sign
Bathurst and Robinson
the sign says:
“…to permit the development of a nine storey mixed use building…..
….. consisting of ground and 2nd floors with commercial….
…. 28 residential units….
… zero parking spaces ….”
stand together
Posted: January 27, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: city scene, diversity, downtown, graffiti, green, hands, long arms, mural, orange, parking lot, rainbow, Richmond St. East, spud, spud bomb, street art, suit, tattoos, together, Toronto, urban art
Stand Together,
a mural on Richmond St. East between Church and Jarvis streets.
Painted by Spud, 2014
The center part of the mural is a little 3D Toronto under a rainbow.
The CN Tower is there as well as a few cranes. Perhaps you recognize other buildings?
It even has a painting of the mural in it!
as I walk Toronto 