Artwork copyright Jack Portland. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Bee Dee, 1993

Jack Portland
American (born 1946)

Location: Northeast Tacoma Elementary, Tacoma

About the Artwork

Bee Dee is an energetic abstract painting by artist Jack Portland. The composition features overlapping, surreal forms in bright patterns. He notes, "The images in my work come from a mixture of forms that I see and forms that I imagine. I incorporate texture and patterns that give new meaning or emphasis into these forms. The images I create are about fantasy and the release that fantasy gives."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Tacoma Public Schools.

About the Artist

Jack Portland creates abstracted still-life, figurative, and landscape paintings in a variety of media.
He studied at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1971 and lives in Portland, Oregon.