April 7-June 9, 2024
Guest curated by Kristan Kennedy
If there was a catalog of all of the cornices in the world...all of the lizards, all of the slight shoes, all of the fruits and all of the furniture...all of the bits and the bobs...then Mike Young would press his face into each page and his arm would stretch out across a big piece of paper and he would start re-organizing them all into a new space.
In this new space we are invited to consider relationships and the proximities, the slivers of space and the smart shapes start to fit together in a kind of perfect puzzle. His accumulations tell fragmented stories and invent new taxonomies.
Young's pictorial works are something to behold. Close looking begets close looking. -Kristan Kennedy
Information regarding upcoming open gallery hours may be found on our instagram @elbow.room.pdx
ID: An installation view showcasing the gallery door hand painted in shades of blue, wall vinyl of the exhibition's title "A Berry, A Boot, A Blue Door. New Works by Mike Young" and a large framed drawing of assorted objects, animals and plants rendered in colored pencil and ink.
ID: Installation view of the west side of the gallery. Detailed image descriptions of each artwork may be found within their respective listing in the "Original Art" section of the website.
ID: Installation view of the east side of the gallery. Detailed image descriptions of each artwork may be found within their respective listing in the "Original Art" section of the website.
ID: Installation view of the north gallery wall and three artworks by Mike Young. Detailed image descriptions of each artwork may be found within their respective listing in the "Original Art" section of the website.
ID: Installation image showing a close view of three framed artworks, centered upon a drawing that contains several pieces of furniture, a building, a bicycle, the head of an animal that resembles a pig, a tree, an apple, and several other assorted objects rendered in Mike's characteristic style.