Terry StringerBeppu Wiarda Gallery

For the month of September, Beppu Wiarda Gallery is presenting leading New Zealand sculptor Terry Stringer. His work has been exhibited internationally since 1978. He is a key figure in the history of art in New Zealand, a fact acknowledged in 2003 when he received the country’s national honor, the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The September 2008 exhibit at beppu wiarda gallery, titled “Head Room,” includes abstracted full and partial images of the head and human body. Humankind is expert at reading the figure and thus it becomes a vehicle to carry ideas. The most subtle message is in the face, therefore an exhibition of sculpted heads can communicate a group of ideas.

Terry Stringer
The Wrestlers
Bronze, 2008, Edition of 3
28 inches high
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon




Terry Stringer
Body Language
Bronze, Edition of 3
16.5 inches high
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon




Terry Stringer
Head Hand Hangings
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon




Terry Stringer
Balthus and His Model
Bronze, Edition of 3
24.5 inches high
Courtesy of Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, Oregon

These works seek to build the figure as architecture. They conflate sculpture and architecture, both of which are structures in space. Regarding his work Terry says, “Many of these pieces relate to Folk Art which has long fascinated me. My work is a mixture of my memories and popular culture. I find that if I gift them with my own views, modeled figures indeed have life.”


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Terry Stringer
September 2008

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11 to 5

Beppu Wiarda Gallery
319 NW 9th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209

503.241.6460

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Laura Russo GalleryMargot Voorhies Thompson Exhibition

For the month of May, Laura Russo Gallery is presenting a body of work by Margot Voorhies Thompson. The exhibition will be on display until May 31st.

<Margot Voorhies Thompson
Words In Motion 4 2008
Mixed media on canvas, 24" x 24"
Courtesy Laura Russo Gallery, Portland




Margot Voorhies Thompson
Words In Motion 3, 2008
Mixed media on canvas, 24" x 24"
Courtesy Laura Russo Gallery, Portland




Margot Voorhies Thompson
Words In Motion 8, 2008
Mixed media on canvas, 24" x 24"
Courtesy Laura Russo Gallery, Portland

This exhibition of work by Margot Voorhies Thompson looks at the relationships between calligraphic forms and language. Similar to nature, language has the ability to reinvent itself and adapt over time, or run to extinction. Through adaptation, the meaning of our words change. Thompson takes language and explores these changes by reinterpreting its meaning through form. The words are undecipherable and her unique idiom expresses the lyrical form rather than the symbolism. She deconstructs the alphabet literally by breaking up the letters into abstract elements.

Her work is in collections including the Portland Art Museum, the Stanford University Hospital, and the Printmaking Workshop in New York. Margot Thompson has completed several collaborative book commissions with Kim Stafford, Pattian Rogers, and Wendell Berry for the University of Oregon’s Knight Library Press. Other recent commissions include pieces for Oregon University of Health and Sciences, Portland; Portland State University; Kaiser Permanente, Tualatin, OR; the Woodstock Branch Multnomah County Library; and Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, both in Portland.


Margot Voorhies Thompson
Inventing / Adapting, Paintings & Works on Paper
May 1 - May 31, 2008


Laura Russo Gallery
805 NW 21st Ave.
Portland OR 97209
503.226.2754


Hours: Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 5:30 pm
Saturdays 11:00 - 5:00


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