Artist Talk: Yoonhee Choi & Yuji Hiratsuka
Date April 09, 2025 6:30pm Pricing FREEFREE & Open to the public with reserved ticket. This event will take place in The Gallery.
Artist Talk by Yoonhee Choi (she/her)
Join the artist in-gallery as Yoonhee Choi discusses cotton pulp as a versatile and sculptural casting material for 3D work. Choi will also provide insight into the process of creating her folded paper drawings that were inspired by traditional Asian fabric dyeing techniques.
Artist Talk by Yuji Hiratsuka (he/him)
Yuji Hiratsuka’s graphic work represents a witty and original synthesis of the traditional Japanese ukiyo-e style with modern Western elements. Hiratsuka will discuss aesthetics behind his artwork as well as unique process of color intaglio prints.
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Image: detail of Wythe by Yoonhee Choi
Yuji Hiratsuka Bio:
Yuji Hiratsuka (he/him) was born in Osaka, Japan. He has a B.S. in Art Education from Tokyo Gakugei University, and degrees in printmaking from New Mexico State University (MA) and Indiana University (MFA). He currently is a professor of printmaking at Oregon State University.
Hiratsuka has received numerous international awards. Since 2010 he has had 13 solo shows in the US, as well as in Korea, Canada and Northern Ireland.
Some of the public collections that include Hiratsuka’s art are The British Museum, Tokyo Central Museum, Panstwowe Museum in Poland; The House of Humor and Satire in Bulgaria, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, New York Public Library, The Library of Congress and The Smithsonian’s Museum of Asian Art.
Yoonhee Choi Bio:
Educated as a city planner, an architect and an artist, Yoonhee Choi (she/her) creates work that investigates the possibilities of unexpected materials to express multiple scales of spatial experience and layers of personal associations.
In her projects, which range from tiny collages to room-size installations, Choi works to develop her own visual language in an experimental and improvisational manner. Her work is sparked by the creative friction” between the constraints and potentials of the materials and processes she explores. Choi”s work is in numerous private and public permanent collections including the Portland Art Museum, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation Collection, the State Library of Oregon, the Allen Memorial Art Museum and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
Choi studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, architecture at Yale University, and city planning at Hong-ik University in Seoul. Born and raised in South Korea, she has lived in Portland, Oregon since 2005.