Binoculara consists of two vertical light boxes inset on either side of the main entrance to this residential building in the Lynn Creek Town Centre. Each box depicts a misty evergreen-covered mountainside on an overcast day, referencing the north eastern edge of the North Shore mountains oriented in the same direction. These two pictorial openings metaphorically function as a pair of binoculars, magnifying the distant landscape and bringing the mountains into the building.
Materials: Photography on Vinyl
Location: 342 Mt Highway, North Vancouver
About the Artist:
Frelin received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. Currently he is an Associate Professor of art at the SUNY University at Albany, and lives in Troy, NY. He has shown widely at art museums around North America and has has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and College Art Association. He has published two books of photography and has had several public artworks commissioned throughout the world. Most notably, he and his team were awarded a $1 million Public Art Challenge grant through Bloomberg Philanthropies for which Frelin was Lead Artist on Breathing Lights, a multi-city temporary art installation that involves illuminating abandoned buildings with a breathing effect created with light.
