YATZERTong by Yechel Gagnon
by Lauren Del Vecchio, January 3, 2012
Beth Tong is a large scale cast aluminum sculpture displayed as a mural across the top of the Licorne Theatre in Montreal, Canada. read full article (pdf)
TUSCAN WEEKLYWhen Ordinary is Extraordinary
by Margaret Regan, December 18, 2014
Gagnon uses wood-working tools to cut into plywood. The wood is custom-made of about 20 layers of impossibly thin sheets, colored in dark veneers and tans. She knows which layers have which colors, and she cuts down until she gets to them: to the browns for her lines, to the ambers for shadows, to the tans for neutral space.
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ARCHIWISDOM BOOK STUDIOTop Canadian Architects
by Zhang Yu Hua, December 18, 2012
The space offered at the college, through the long corridor and the grand foyer, is double and unique by its majestic architecture that embraces the exterior garden and its natural elements. The designers thus chose to use the two different techniques that may be seen here, frottage drawing and carved plywood.
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