Katherine Porter: works on paper, an exhibition of mixed media and oils on paper by the acclaimed artist Katherine Porter (1941–2024). Opening Friday, February 27, 2026, the exhibition highlights Porter’s extraordinary ability to channel the complexities, discords, and dissonances of her times into powerful aesthetic statements.

As noted art scholar Irving Sandler once wrote that Jackson Pollock invented chaos, it can also be said that Katherine Porter took that chaos and, through a remarkable capacity for creative spontaneity, transformed it into brilliance. These works demonstrate a muscular engagement with chaos as a foil for the harmony she imagined—and longed for—in the world at large. On paper, the fray is conducted with a discernible diminuendo, when compared to Porter’s large canvases, but continue to use signature “Porter” marks—swirling vortexes, vibrating scribbles, and jousting colors.Porter’s work was deeply informed by the social consciousness of the 1960s through the 1980s, including the Vietnam War and racial conflicts. Her art became a cri de coeur, or cry of the heart, for a better world. She saw her work as visual poetry, in league with the poets of engagement she admired, such as Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca. By harnessing the rupturing mayhem of the era, Porter repurposed it through her brilliant sense of aesthetics to seek a sense of equilibrium in a world of imbalance.

The exhibition opens remains on view through March 7th, 2026.