AC Art Collection
The AC Hotel Art Collection is designed to capture and share the culture, spirit and values of Portland through the voices of talented local artists and artisans who are at the very heart of who we are. Our multi-disciplinary program features custom works designed and created exclusively for AC Hotel Portland.
- Heidi McBride Co.
RAM HOUSE
By Emily Nachison from Portland, OR
Ram Sculpture
Materials: plywood, foam, wool army blankets, and horn
Portland attracts creatives and outside-the-box thinkers in spades
ABSOLUTELY
By William Park from Portland, OR
Pacific Ocean Wave Painting
Materials: oil on canvas
Close proximity to natural bounty defines Portland culture and cuisine. We are less than one hour to the mountains or coast, surrounded by trees and geographically defined by rivers
WEINHARD’S BARRELS
By Jason Prouty
Hand-Painted Mural
Materials: transparent oils on steel
Based on a historic image, “Keg Pitching”, shot in the early 1900’s in Henry Weinhard’s Barrel Room
SLAB
By Mike Suri from Portland, OR
Monumental Iron "Slab" Sculpture
Materials: Sand-cast aluminum
The “slab” embodies Portland’s pioneering spirit and roots in Timber and logging which is still prevalent today
Wood Owl
By Todd Isaacs from Portland, OR
Owl Artisan Bookshelf
Materials: western black walnut (rare wood that only grows in OR, WA, and CA) and other wood species
Exhibits Portland’s love of artisans and “design-build” culture. Portland has the largest inner city park in the nation, Forest Park, which is home to many “backyard” owls
Sidewalking
By Damien Gilley from Portland, OR
Architectural Graphic Urban "Totems"
Materials: etched glass
Abstracted architectural elements found in Portland with a focus on windows and sidewalks (“urban window shopping”)
Oregons Garden
By David Cohen from Portland, OR
Curio Lightbox Installation
Materials: permanent India ink and ink washes on yupo watercolor paper; backlit by LEDs with glass face
Collection of Northwest native plants indigenous to the Portland area:
1. Heal All/Prunella vulgaris 2. Western Hemlock/Tsuga heterophylla 3. Streambank Lupin/Lupinus rivularis 4. Yellow Monkey Flower/Mimulus guttatus 5. Oregon White Oak/Quercus garryana 6. Western Skunk Cabbage/Lysichiton americanus 7. Mountain Ladyslipper/Cypripedium montantum 8. Western Flowring Dogwood/Cornus nuttallii 9. Oregon Stonecrop/Sedum oreganum 10. Doug Fir/Pseudotsuga menziesii 11. Oregon Iris/Iris tenax 12. Wild Ginger/Ausarum caudatum 13. Hazelnut/Corylus cornuta 14. Grand Fir/Abies grandus 15. White Fawn Lily/Erythronium oregonum 16. Tall Oregon Grape/Mahonia aquifolium 17. Oregon Ash/Fraxinus latifolia 18. Henderson’s Shooting Star/Dodecatheon hendersonii 19. Camas/Cammasa quamash 20. Licorice Fern/Polypodium glycyrrhiza 21. Western Red Cedar/Thuja plicata
COLOR BODIES
By Shelley Socolofsky from West, OR
Hand-Woven Textile
Materials: : hand-woven linen, wool, horsehair, cotton, and correction fluid
Subject is the cover of a popular local weekly newspaper, “Portland Mercury”
DAYBREAKER
By Damien Gilley from Portland, OR
Hand-Painted Portland icons Mural
Materials: subtle metallic paint on drywall (tone-to-tone)
Recognizable Portland elements abstracted into the immersive two-wall mural. Notable sites included: Hawthorne Bridge, multiple familiar sign shapes and streetlights, OHSU’s aerial walkway, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall’s marquee, & more
