BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAYTraditional letterforms are melting and straightening and refracting and layering and abstracting and slicing into geometric forms tonight in Portland Oregon as “Three The Hard Way” opens with men who came up through graffiti and embraced a new enthusiasm for this modern visual vocabulary.
Hard in this case doesn’t refer to their individual dispositions but it may refer to the amount of effort and skill they each have put into building a body of work, and a point of view. Naturally it also name-checks Hard-Edge painting and the surety and confidence you have to have to make choices in your art.
Augustine Kofie for “Three The Hard Way” (image courtesy and © Breeze Block Gallery)
So here you are, some fresh images of some of the new works on display tonight by Augustine Kofie, Jerry Joker Inscoe, Christopher Derek Bruno, three artists whose large scale works on the street have taken different directions over the last decades but now all have led to this one place.
Lucky folk in Portland will meet all three if they go tonight. Congratulations to the curator who possesses an architectural sensibility, Sven Davis, for creating this sharp focus on dimension, form, composition, and space. This trio smartly soars.
Augustine Kofie for “Three The Hard Way” (image courtesy and © Breeze Block Gallery) 
Augustine Kofie for “Three The Hard Way” (image courtesy and © Breeze Block Gallery) 
Christopher Derek Bruno for “Three The Hard Way” (image courtesy and © Breeze Block Gallery) 
Christopher Derek Bruno for “Three The Hard Way” (image courtesy and © Breeze Block Gallery)
Jerry Joker Inscoe for “Three The Hard Way” (image courtesy and © Breeze Block Gallery) 
Jerry Joker Inscoe for “Three The Hard Way” (image courtesy and © Breeze Block Gallery)
Breeze Block Gallery presents:
Three The Hard Way: Augustine Kofie / Jerry Joker Inscoe / Christopher Derek Bruno
Three-person exhibition curated by Sven Davis
Breeze Block Gallery
Portland OR.
November 7 – 30, 2013
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