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See you at the Schnitzer Collection on the first Saturday in May!

Katherine Ace (American
1953–2023)
Self Portrait Somewhere Else
2004
Alkyd and mixed media with collage on canvas
54 x 78 in.

“I have never quite lived my life as ‘Here’s me,’ but rather ‘This is what I am interested in and passionate about.’”
—Katherine Ace

Katherine Ace borrows from the Dutch vanitas still-life tradition of the 16th and 17th centuries, where painters filled their compositions with skulls, clocks, and extinguished candles to remind viewers that life is brief and earthly pleasures fade. Ace adopts that structure but shifts its meaning. Her scene is filled with books, photographs, pet cats, and art supplies. Where vanitas warned against attachment, Ace shows identity as built from the joy of making and the bonds of daily life.
Ace passed away in 2023. During the pandemic she created Ace Bob Ross, a free YouTube series still available today, sharing her oil-painting practice with high school students learning from home.

On view at the Schnitzer Collection: 3033 NW Yeon. Saturday 12-6pm. Free parking, always free admission. The current show features art by:

Katherine Ace
Derrick Adams
Chul-Hyun Ahn
Robert Arneson
Richard Avedon
John Baldessari
Rick Bartow
Mel Bochner
Louise Bourgeois
Elizabeth Catlett
Judy Chicago
Richard Diebenkorn
Jim Dine
Jeffrey Gibson
Sally Haley
Keith Haring
LaToya Hobbs
Jenny Holzer
Malia Jensen
Jasper Johns
Alex Katz
Ellsworth Kelly
Jeff Koons
Karen LaMonte
James Lavadour
Roy Lichtenstein
Hung Liu
Robert Longo
Elizabeth Malaska
Marilyn Minter
Bruce Nauman
Alice Neel
Julian Opie
Anton Perich
Elizabeth Peyton
Pablo Picasso
Man Ray
Wendy Red Star
Ed Ruscha
Alison Saar
Tschabalala Self
Amy Sherald
Shahzia Sikander
Lorna Simpson
Kiki Smith
Swoon
Storm Tharp
Hank Willis Thomas
Mickalene Thomas
Andy Warhol
Carrie Mae Weems
Charles Wilbert White

Portland’s secret art venue. Open Saturday 12-6pm. Free parking, always free admission. The current show features art by:

Katherine Ace
Derrick Adams
Chul-Hyun Ahn
Robert Arneson
Richard Avedon
John Baldessari
Rick Bartow
Mel Bochner
Louise Bourgeois
Elizabeth Catlett
Judy Chicago
Richard Diebenkorn
Jim Dine
Jeffrey Gibson
Sally Haley
Keith Haring
LaToya Hobbs
Jenny Holzer
Malia Jensen
Jasper Johns
Alex Katz
Ellsworth Kelly
Jeff Koons
Karen LaMonte
James Lavadour
Roy Lichtenstein
Hung Liu
Robert Longo
Elizabeth Malaska
Marilyn Minter
Bruce Nauman
Alice Neel
Julian Opie
Anton Perich
Elizabeth Peyton
Pablo Picasso
Man Ray
Wendy Red Star
Ed Ruscha
Alison Saar
Tschabalala Self
Amy Sherald
Shahzia Sikander
Lorna Simpson
Kiki Smith
Swoon
Storm Tharp
Hank Willis Thomas
Mickalene Thomas
Andy Warhol
Carrie Mae Weems
Charles Wilbert White

New painting on exhibition by Derrick Adams: Good Egg, Bad Bunny.

Free refreshments until 6pm. 3033 NW Yeon

Artists draw people from life in different ways. Alice Neel asked sitters personal questions for hours while painting, hoping she could transmit it into the portrait. Amy Sherald asks sitters to look directly at the viewer with a specific expression and often chooses their clothing from her studio wardrobe. Andy Warhol said he was searching for “superstars” in his hundreds of filmed Screen Tests, which were really video portraits.

For First Saturday at the Schnitzer Collection, try making your own scratch-board portrait of yourself, someone else or one of the many identity centered artworks up now.

Refreshments provided.
Free | All ages | 12–6 PM
3033 NW Yeon

Video from and - Born and raised in Harlem, the artist Tschabalala Self grew up frequenting bodegas with her family. These three-dimensional paper-pulp works, made with Two Palms Print Studio, conclude a six-year investigation into the social significance of the bodega. Self received her MFA from Yale and has exhibited worldwide.
*Tschabalala is pronunced:
shah-bah-LAH-lah

Happy Valentine’s Day. The Schnitzer Coll cation is open from 12-6. Refreshments today 4pm-6pm. 3033 NW Yeon

President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and First Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald (2018).

Elizabeth Peyton
Keith Herring
Alice Neel
Elizabeth Peyton
Michalene Thomas
Richard Avedon
Judy Chicago

We moved to a great new apartment in the Portland Towers building. It was built in the 50s and has a lot of cool architecture details. Wall hanging and curtains from

A brilliant group of people celebrated their birthday by visiting the Schnitzer Collection this week. They created a game: make up a full narrative about the art, the artist’s backstory and the artist’s intention, then research and see what diverges. I’m going to start doing this when I research artists.