JSMA at PSU will host an in-person gallery talk with artist Sadé DuBoise as she showcases her artwork, The Collective Mourn, currently on view as part of the Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition. RSVP is encouraged.

Painter Sadé DuBoise makes artwork that aims to illustrate the vast beauty of Black women as well as the individual and collective experiences that connect them. Drawing from the Black girls and women that DuBoise grew up with and around in North Portland, she works in layers, using acrylic and gouache to magnify the textures of Blackness. All of DuBoise’s paint mixing happens on canvas and she often experiments with surface, sometimes using watercolor paper for its toothiness. The coarseness of the paint application enlivens her subjects and creates space for durational-looking with each coil, lock, eyelash, and freckle acting as a painting in and of itself.

Text written by Ella Ray, editorially supported by Nia Pipkin-Glover. For more information on this exhibition, please visit our website.

The Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Program was established by Jordan Schnitzer in partnership with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU. The program is funded through a generous grant from the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation/Jordan Schnitzer.

The Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition was organized by the JSMA at PSU. Additional funding for this exhibition is provided by Portland State University President's Office and the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Sadé DuBoise,The Collective Mourn (detail), 2022, acrylic, gouache and paint pen on canvas, 84 x 96 inches