Pattern in art is made by repeating or echoing the visual elements of an artwork.
Artist: Muralist: Julia Prajza | Animator: Jonna Petrou
Dundas St W/Pacific Ave. (Rear of building: 2975 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6P 1Z2)As its title suggests, “Patterns of the Junction,” located at 2975 Dundas St W (West Toronto Paint and Wallpaper) and viewed while travelling north on Pacific Ave, celebrates the various patterns found throughout the neighbourhood.
Artist: Marie-Judith Jean-Louis AKA MJ, Désiré Betty, Sarah Alinia Ziazi, Andrea Rodriguez AKA Andreacataro, Ghazaleh Rastgar, Karen Roberts, Jennifer Messon, Frannie Potts, Natalie Very B, Chrissy Kuiack, Kseniya Tsoy, Ross Iaydjiev AKA FLIPS, Rob Matejka, Menelik Powell, Hemangi Shroff, Sophie Lau.
Port Union Village Common Park: 105 Bridgend Street, Toronto, ON M9C 2Y2As part of ArtworxTO, WATERMARKED is an experimental mural project that allowed artists and community members of all ages and abilities to experiment with rain-activated paint while co-creating a temporary public artwork at the Port Union Village Common Park in Scarborough.
Artist: Kai Cabödyna
507 Cedar St, Nelson, BC V1L 2C2, CanadaCreated from the 2021 Nelson International Mural Festival on the Cedar Street retaining wall.
“Kai Cabödyna’s practice is rooted within returning to natural rhythms, dethroning patriarchal conditioning, cultivating community, exploring collaborative projects and evolving cultural paradigms. Overlapping and communicating through various mediums allows for his eclectic and adaptable process to reflect the way nature orchestrates it’s patterns, rhythms and flows.
Artist: Imagine
420 Vernon Street, Nelson, BC, V1L 4E5The piece is an ode to blue skies! The sky in Nelson really inspired me. When I first arrived, I talked to the festival organizers and several people who’ve lived here all their lives, and they were all telling me how lucky I was during my visit because the sky wasn’t smoky. Since I got here, the sky has been a perfect blue the whole time and I couldn’t imagine this beautiful place any other way.
What it says on the wall is “may the skies forever stay blue”, over and over again. It’s sort of like a wish, that with climate change and rapidly changing weather everywhere, the hope is that we have blue sky days like these over and over again; that things stay this way. I used a lot of shades of blue in it; the majority of the shades are sky blues, so if you take a photo of the wall, even at different times of day, some part of the wall is always matching the sky.
Artist: Chelsea Virginia
Berry Rd at Park Lawn Rd East Side, Toronto, ON M8Y 1W9, CanadaFeaturing a dark blue background that wraps around the signal box, its front face displays two sunflowers, painted in miraculous yellow with strong black stems and leaves, surrounded by smaller white petaled flowers. Its back face shows one large sunflower, while its sides show three white doves on each side, separated by black hearts.
Artist: Sylvie Stojanovski (a.k.a. Sylvie the Artist)
Yonge St at Baillol Ave, south east corner (1867 Yonge St)An interactive ground mural that features a pattern map inspired by an aerial map of park trails and waterways in the Midtown Yonge area–from Sherwood Park, to Oriole, and the Beltline, as well as three lines connecting native plants to their respective pollinators.
Created as a part of the Midtown Yonge BIA Connects! Through Community Animation and Art program.
