Nancy Rubins | Concord Pacific | Canada's Largest Community Builder

Concord Pacific is pleased to announce the installation of a new permanent outdoor sculpture by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Rubins.

Public Art Program in Burnaby

The City of Burnaby’s Public Art Program commissions and curates artworks in public spaces — from parks and civic facilities to streetscapes — to reflect the diversity, heritage, and aspirations of our community. Through permanent installations and temporary activations alike, the program aims to transform everyday environments into creative spaces that spark conversation, foster connection, and celebrate the many voices and stories that make Burnaby unique. By integrating art into civic infrastructure and encouraging collaboration between artists, residents, and city departments, Burnaby affirms that public art plays a vital role in shaping a sense of belonging, identity, and shared civic pride.

City of Burnaby Public Art Map Burnaby Art Gallery Collections – Nancy Rubins

Concord Brentwood Hillside - Winnie's Pleasure

Rubins is well known and highly regarded for her large-scale assemblage sculptures using boats. The sculpture that has been installed in the plaza space on Lougheed Highway at Concord Brentwood Hillside - Winnie's Pleasure adds a colourful node of interest to the plaza for the enjoyment of local residents, pedestrians, cyclists, people passing by in vehicles and passengers on the SkyTrain.

This sculpture was designed and constructed to meet all required structural engineering and safety codes local to this jurisdiction in the province of British Columbia. Similarly, the sculpture installation process that has been completed in the plaza complies with all the rigorous local construction safety requirements that protect the personnel involved in the installation work and the public.

Concord’s Public Art Program

Concord Pacific’s Public Art Program commissions and curates artworks throughout its master-planned communities to create a distinctive sense of place and identity. Over decades, the program has grown into one of the largest privately-funded public-art efforts in Canada, featuring dozens of permanent installations and temporary activations. By engaging Canadian, Indigenous, and international artists — including emerging creators — Concord Pacific aims to make art accessible, celebrate cultural diversity, and integrate creativity into everyday community life.

Image Credit: Brian Guido

Image Credit: Ema Peter

Nancy Rubins Biography

Born in 1952 in Naples, Texas, Nancy Rubins was raised in Tullahoma, Tennessee. She graduated with a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 1974 and then went on to complete an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1976. Rubins taught in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1982 to 2004. Her work has been collected into numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and the FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France.

Rubins' work is on permanent outdoor display at several art institutions and universities around the world including the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the University of Texas at Austin, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and l'Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France. Temporary outdoor displays of Rubin's large-scale sculptures have been installed in Florence, Italy; Graz, Austria; Navy Pier in Chicago, Lincoln Centre in New York, and at MOCA, Los Angeles. Nancy Rubins is currently repre-sented by the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills and the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago.

Winnie's Pleasure by Nancy Rubins Media Kit