
Ace was born in Chicago in 1953 and received a BA from Knox College, Illinois, in 1975. She works in alkyd/oil on canvas.

In January 1990 Ace moved to Oregon and established a permanent studio. She has had 32 solo
shows since 1992

Ace has participated in numerous regional and national group shows at museums, galleries, art centers, colleges and universities Ace often contributes cover art for magazines, journals, and books in the US and Europe, including Irse de Casa-by Martin Gaite, published in Spain, CALYX book and journal covers -including their two 25th Anniversary Anthology edition covers, Pomegranate Publishing cards and calendar, and Terre Lontane poetry by Maggiare. Magazines and journals that have featured her work include The Other Side, Gnosis, and Interreligious Insight.
Katherine Ace has an ongoing fascination with both figurative and still life painting. Her work posits, plays with and subverts realism, is deeply involved in contraries and opposites, and has a feminist orientation. She finds inspiration in art from ancient times to the present. Her influences are many and include: Arthur Dove, William Blake, Greek sculpture, Balthus, Da Vinci, Magritte, E. Vigee Lebrun, Remedios Varo, LeonoraCarrington, Fantin-Latour, Emily Carr, Asian Thangkas, Dutch flower painters,...
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