Doodle Does It: A Journey from Doodles to Bronze
Fine Art Sculpture by Mary-Ann Liu, Doodles and Art Concept by Cyrus Yavneh
Dates: September 11th – 30th, 2007
Venue: Elliott Louis Gallery at 1540 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10 AM – 6 PM / Sunday 11 AM – 5 PM and by appointment

Everybody does it. You do it in boring meetings, chatting on the phone, waiting for the bus. Award-winning TV producer (24, Supernatural), writer and filmmaker Cyrus Yavneh does it too — as a natural flow of expression through hand to paper, without constraint or intention, in the course of his busy day. And celebrated sculptor Mary-Ann Liu does it in bronze. Doodling, that is. The kind of daily scribbles we all make in the margins of our lives inspired Ms. Liu (creator of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa and Vancouver’s and Chicago’s Chinatown Dragon Lanterns) to bring Mr. Yavneh’s free form scribbling of musical notes and amoebic forms into three-dimensional reality through the medium of bronze.

Doodle Does It is an exhibition of more than 30 doodle sculptures created largely out of bronze; some are painted using an encaustic technique (a departure from traditional bronzes where only patinas are used). It explores the countless possibilities found within the potent ideas that are generally discarded at day’s end. Mary-Ann and Cyrus weren’t purposely trying to break down the boundaries between high art and popular culture, but the doodle journey just does it by its very nature.

For more information visit Mary-Ann’s website here.