Gallery Ace is represented by the Woodside/Braseth Gallery in Seattle, and the Froelick Gallery in Portland.Born
1953, Chicago Medium
She works in alkyd/oil on canvas. www.katherineace.com Interests
Katherine Ace has an ongoing fascination with both figurative and still life painting. Her work posits, plays with and subverts realism, is deeply involved in contraries and opposites, and has a feminist orientation. She finds inspiration in art from ancient times to the present. Her influences are many and include: Arthur Dove, William Blake, Greek sculpture, Balthus, Da Vinci, Magritte, E. Vigee Lebrun, Varo, Carrington, Fantin-Latour, Emily Carr, Asian Thangkas, Dutch flower painters, and too many contemporary artists to list. Collections
er work hangs in private, corporate and public collections. In 1998 she was awarded a public art commission for two 6x7' paintings for the Art Center at Southern Oregon State University in Ashland. Work hangs at the Oregon State University Library in Corvallis, the Vintage Plaza Hotel in Portland, Paccar corporate collection and Paragon Inc. in Seattle. A 1996 winner of the Portland Symphony Program Cover Competition, Ace often contributes cover art for magazines, journals, and books in the US and Europe, including Irse de Casa-by Gaite, published in Spain, CALYX book and journal covers -including their two 25th Anniversary Anthology edition covers, Pomegranate Publishing cards and calendar, and Terre Lontane poetry by Maggiare. Magazines and journals that have featured her work include The Other Side, Gnosis, and Interreligious Insight. |
