Vancouver Community Laboratory
3 Artists
The Vancouver Community Laboratory, or CoLab for short, is a cooperative workshop in the heart of East Van on the corner of Victoria and Triumph street. Once a car repair shop, the Colab has transformed over the years from an empty warehouse into a fully equipped woodworking, metal working and textiles shop. We are artists, artisans, craftspeople, carpenters, metalworkers, hobbyists and tinkerers who enjoy creating, repairing, learning, innovating and sharing our experience and skills within our community.
Vancouver Community Laboratory
Building details
Public Washroom
Not Wheelchair Accessible
Vancouver Community Laboratory Artists
Mick Bryant
Mick Bryant is highly skilled in many forms of metal work. His skills include mastery over coppersmithing, light steel and stainless steel fabrication as well as fine woodworking. As a pro-am musician he also has a keen interest in playable art. This year he will be presenting sculptural items, copper and brass guitar slides and tone bars, as well as stainless steel cymbal bows.
Andrew Buszchak
I am an artist and metalworker who makes sculpture and text-based artworks. I have presented my work in solo and group exhibitions across Canada since 2006, and some of my artworks have been written about in Border Crossings, Canadian Art, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Recently, my practice has expanded to include toolmaking, and other small-scale metal fabrication and repair. With deference and gratitude to the people of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, I reside on their unceded, traditional territories.
Mary Lang
Mary Lang is a mixed media artist who paints abstractly, exploring texture, shapes, line and colour. She grew up entwined with nature within a connected community. Her father was an artist and her family shared a passion for the arts and nature and community. Throughout her life she participated in movement, music and visual arts. She has been painting for a number of years and is thrilled to be painting full time now since she retired from her 30 year career as a therapist. Her work is very influenced by her attraction to texture, shapes, lines, colour reflections, shadows, movement in nature, people and structures within community. She is interested in abstraction and improvisation in all art forms which reveals itself through an intuitive process of building media up, tearing it away, covering and painting until the composition feels complete. Her approach to art making allows her to express her passion for the environment, architecture and humanity. She is an active member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and recently participated in the Online Federation showcase, Small Exhibition and will be showing in the Abstracted exhibit mid September 2023. I have shown my work various art crawls on the Sunshine Coast where I lived for 30 years.
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