The PDX Art Gallery is free and open to the public on the mezzanine level and will feature educational exhibitions centered on new permanent artworks at the airport and the artists who made them. Visit the gallery Monday-Sunday between 9am-10pm, this is a pre-security area so you do not need a ticket to visit!
Our current exhibition titled Behind Between features Portland artist Yoonhee Choi who was commissioned for the art glass walls titled Between located in the North and South security queueing areas at PDX. This exhibition spotlights Yoonhee’s art practice and tells the incredible story of how her art glass walls were designed, fabricated and installed. Behind Between will be on view through June 2025, with a public Artist Celebration event at the gallery on Thursday January 30th from 5-8pm.
Behind Between highlights Choi’s multidisciplinary art practice ranging from paper pulp paintings, line-tape collage, and folded paper compositions. These various bodies of work not only convey the depth of her artistic explorations, but inform many of the themes and concepts present in the art glass walls.
To learn more about Yoonhee’s process and the execution of the art glass walls, there are wall didactics as well as artist notes and materials to explore. Two display case tables contain the artist’s tools, various drafts, and insight into the collaboration with Glasmalerei Peters Studio in Germany who fabricated the glass walls. Each art glass wall stands 11 feet tall and 56 feet long, comprised of 14 glass panels. Glasmalerei Peters Studio expertly crafted each panel with three laminated layers of kilned glass, weighing over 450 lbs each.
Educated as a city planner, an architect and an artist, Yoonhee Choi 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.
Choi’s artwork 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. She studied 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.
For more information on this exhibition or artwork inquiries, please contact ychoistudio@gmail.com or visit ychoiart.com.
