July 16: Bryn Forbes Gallery Grand Opening Reception In The Pearl
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THE BRYN FORBES STUDIO & GALLERY
ANNOUNCES ITS JULY 16, 2010 GALLERY GRAND OPENING:
PORTLAND PREMIERE
NEW FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRYN FORBES
July 16th, 2010
Gallery Grand Opening Reception Friday, July 16th, 2010 6:00-9:00pm at the Bryn Forbes Gallery, 1106 NW Marshall St. (in the Pearl)
Bryn is a new arrival in Portland's Pearl District artscape. His studio / gallery of Fine Art Photography will open Friday, July 16 at 1106 NW Marshall St near the Tanner Springs Park in Portland's Pearl District. Bryn is just back from a 50 day photographic exploration of the southern hemisphere (outdoing Jules Verne's Phineas Fogg 80 day feat). This and previous trips all over the world will be featured in future shows at the gallery. In the coming months gallery will feature seascapes, cityscapes, animals, birds, landscapes of incredible beauty from places such as Namibia and Botswana, Australia, and New Zealand as well as from the digital realm of mathematically created images of color, light and flow.
To launch his gallery, however, Bryn has chosen to present a broad spectrum of the fine art photography which best demonstrates his “painting with a camera” to evoke images of the real, yet softened, reality found in nature. His landscapes and seascapes capture the motion of the scene in a way that redefines still photography. Counterpoint to these softened images are bold, crisp and colorful abstract images which are as modern, yet timeless, as contemporary art. His images, representing the essence of that which captures his imagination, are radiant and eminently pleasurable to view for the first time or to salute the beauty of life with for years….
Bryn generally works in larger formats, presenting his vision of land and seascapes of the natural world, streetscapes, fireworks, and abstract representations of the beauty around us. Lately he also been doing very large format works made from physical objects such as dice, toys or candles, in which each object is a pixel in a larger mosaic-ed image.
The 900 square foot gallery is located next door to Siler Studios one down from the corner of NW 11th and NW Marshall st. across the street from Via Delizia. The grand opening reception will be held July 16th from 6pm to 9pm at the gallery.
For a sampling of the artist's previous images please visit: http://www.BrynForbes.com
July 14, 2010 at 13:25
Congrtulations, Bryn,
We’re happy for you.
We will look at some of your works on line.
Sorry we will not be in Portland for the opening.
Bill and Faith Ann
July 14, 2010 at 14:05
Congratulations, Bryn. Although we can’t make the opening, we will certainly plan a visit on our next trip to Portland.
May your new career bring you joy and success. Can’t say “break a leg” because that’s for the theater, and I certainly wouldn’t want you to break any of that fancy photography equipment, so I’ll just say “go for it.”
Best
Jean and Joe
July 14, 2010 at 14:10
Good luck Bryn. We’ll get you some more images next May! You should have many fine images to tide you over.
July 14, 2010 at 14:21
Well done. Look forward to seeing some of your work online. New Zealand scenery does bring out the best of a photographer. Congrats.
July 14, 2010 at 14:41
Congratulations Bryn! We are so pleased for you
and would LOVE to be there. Sorry to say we
have plans on the 16th but we will thinking
of you and know you will be a success.
July 14, 2010 at 21:36
Bryn – this is fantastic! I am so impressed. Congratulations on following your dream and on putting in the hard work to make this become a reality. I wish you every success.
Tom
July 15, 2010 at 00:16
So glad we will be among the crooning masses on friday, dear bryn! We are most proud to have a brilliant artist in our family. Xoxo
July 15, 2010 at 10:56
Bryn! I am so excited to be there on Friday! You sound so sophisticated in this article… I am a little intimidated now to see you again! ;) I think what you are doing is so fantastically awesome! Good work to you!
July 15, 2010 at 14:39
What exciting news!
This will be a career that will bring you
pleasure each day!
I wish your –hmm second cousin in law??
in other words, my husband Ted, was alive
to drive us up to
see the gallery.!!! But I will visit your website!!!
Best of luck!
July 16, 2010 at 01:34
We will be there with bells on! Your pictures I’ve seen truly are “worth a thousand words” and we are eager to see more!
July 18, 2010 at 08:14
Hello Bryn,
I just read the article above (your father sent it to me) and I am really impressed. I already admired so many of your photos and I hope to see many more of them.
Congratulations on your opening an art gallery. We wish you a lot of success and we hope to someday come and see for ourselves all the great art you will be exhibiting!
Warm regards,
Mieke and family (from The Netherlands)
July 19, 2010 at 21:57
Bryn – Thanks for the tour of your gallery. What a variety of images! Our favorite is the lioness plowing through the water. You have a good eye for catching exquisite visions.