Michael Cho: Book Signing & Gallery Show
Posted Thursday, May 17, 2012

Michael Cho: Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes
Book signing featuring a gallery show of selected works
Wednesday, May 23rd, 6pm - 8pm
@ Type Books, 883 Queen Street West
Free to attend

After a day-one, sell out debut at TCAF, Michael Cho's Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes gets its own book launch! The launch also features a small gallery show and sale of roughly a dozen paintings from the book.

Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes shines with lovingly rendered details, from expletive-filled graffiti splayed across backyard fences to the graceful twists of power lines over a bend in the road. Back Alleys and Urban Landscapes meanders through the city, functioning as a sort of caught-on-paper psychogeographical Jane's Walk. With each season's change, different color schemes become dominant, and a whole range of moods and moments are articulated. Cho lets the reader visit his city as a virtual flaneur, lingering equally over dilapidated sheds and well-groomed gardens in a dazzling tribute to the urban environs. Back Alley and Urban Landscapes is Cho's first book and is published by Drawn & Quarterly.

See more of Cho's work on his website, chodrawings.blogspot.ca.


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