Tae Won Yu at The Land Gallery

Tae Won Yu's first show at Land—the gallery and store run by our compatriots over at BuyOlympia.com—will be a mini-retrospective of his work spanning over 15 years of prolific production.

The exhibition will feature posters, prints, book and album covers, photographs and illustrations as well as some of his earliest work from his happy childhood in Japan to his disturbed teenage years in New York.

Tae Won Yu (born July 19, 1968, Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American visual artist, designer and musician best known for his hand-made aesthetic in the field of graphic design, typography and illustration as well as for his role in the seminal 90’s indie band, Kicking Giant.

Opening Night Event:
Friday, September 10th at 6pm

Land
3925 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97227

gallery@landpdx.com

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Two excellent shows open tomorrow

Michael Brophy Cargo, 2010 oil on canvas 78" x 90"

Michael Brophy
Cargo, 2010
oil on canvas
78" x 90"

At the Laura Russo Gallery is a great pairing of Michael Brophy and Eric Stotik, both local painters who continue to expand the boundaries of their craft and subject matter. Both artists have been featured previously in Plazm magazine. Brophy in Plazm #21 and Stotik in Plazm #18.

OPENING RECEPTION:

First Thursday September 2, 2010

First Thursday Hours, 5-8pm

Laura Russo Gallery

805 NW 21st Ave., Portland Oregon 97209

Tue - Fri 11 - 5:30 / Saturday 11 - 5

There are artist talks at the gallery with Michael Brophy and Eric Stotik, Saturday, September 11, at 11a.m.

Eric Stotik
Untitled LR193 (falling man in green; blue sky) 2010
acrylic on wood panel
13.5" x 10.5"

Twelve blocks East at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery another lovely double-billing featuring Justine Kurland's photographic series This Train is Bound for Glory.  and Stephen Hayes latest monotypes. Stephen Hayes was featured in Plazm #7. 

Stephen Hayes

Wild Beauty - Revisited #1917, 2010

monotype on paper

18.75" x 33.25"

Stephen Hayes

Wild Beauty - Revisited #1917, 2010

monotype on paper

18.75" x 33.25"

For two years Justine Kurland and her young son traveled throughout the American West, exploring what remains of our commercial rail system. Kurland photographed not only these trains in the landscape, but also the train hoppers and hobos who clandestinely ride the rails, as well as her own little family and its experience of the journey. The resulting photographs consider the romanticism and utopian fantasies inherent in the American experience, also presenting an extremely rare (in this day and age), extraordinarily personal relationship to the physical reality of our country and its industrial and social fringes. Plazm editor Jon Raymond wrote an introduction to Kurland's monograph of this work. 

Elizabeth Leach Gallery

417 NW 9th Ave

OPENING RECEPTION:

First Thursday September 2, 2010

Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m

Justine KurlandCounting Hoppers, Glenwood Canyon  2008

Justine KurlandCounting Hoppers, Glenwood Canyon  2008

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