This charcoal portrait of Darrell Grant will be one of many portrait paintings and drawings by Portland artist Diane Russell coinciding with this year’s Portland Jazz festival. Grant is being honored as the 2019 Portland Jazz Master. Portraits will be on display Feb 1-28 at the Art Bar in Antoinette Hatfield Hall, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland. The artist reception is 5-7 pm, Thursday Feb. 21. The solo exhibit will feature Diane’s portraits of jazz and blues musicians who have appeared at the Portland Jazz Festival including Esperanza Spalding, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner, Glen Moore, Nancy King, Thara Memory and Mel Brown, as well as Grant. dianerussell.net
