The Portland artist's paintings are steeped in American pop-cultural images and deal satirically with race relations. Plus: Hannah Krafcik's "Gender Deconstruction"; Portland arts tax due.
Arvie Smith, one of Oregon’s best and most prominent painters, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Thursday. Smith is one of this year’s 188 fellowship winners, in 52 disciplines ranging broadly from mathematics to environmental science to genetics to writing and a range of artistic fields.
