New Portfolio Website

For my up to date portfolio please visit http://www.rebeccajanehouston.carbonmade.com.

Opening today at the Artist Project- Installation Zone (I)15

Also visit The Northern Beaver Gallery, a set of tiny galleries inside Canadian-Made Vending Machines at (I)5. www.artvendu.com

Upcoming Event

Stone and Glass; We are all transient  at the Church of the Holy Trinity. A light and sound installation animating the Toronto Homeless Memorial for Myseum Intersections.

Banners for the Queen Street Viaduct

After more than two years of preparation, the banners and wayfinding signs I designed have been installed on the Queen St. Bridge, the span that crosses the Bayview Extension and Lower Don River near Queen and Broadview Avenues. The signs were designed as a sculptural “Western Gate” into Riverside, the historic district that includes landmarks like the Broadview Hotel (formerly Jilly’s) and the old postal station that houses Ralph Thornton Centre and the Queen Saulter Library.

With the banner before installation.

Thanks to Nicolas Chin for this photo. Nick created the Riverside logo that is cut into the steel ribbon.

The crane lifting the new pole and sign into place on the Queen Street Viaduct.

Thesis Exhibition and Interactive Workshop

Please join me on May 5th at Gales Gallery, York University, to celebrate the culmination of my MFA work and to help build the Cut Twice installation:

To read about this work, click here.

Please join me at Grow Op at the Gladstone Hotel.

Grow Op at the Gladstone Hotel, April 23-26
This is a wonderful 4-day event with many artists and landscape architects, urban planners and ecologists working to create opportunities for reflection on the urban environment. The hotel is a beautiful setting for the many installations and events. The food is great too. I will be doing an artist talk on Saturday afternoon.