Cityscapes: Mace moved to Portland, Oregon in 1990 for the cool, fresh air. He fell in love with Portland funk, and found a strong kinship with the city’s urgent young art scene. Like his own painting, the Portland scene is open and developing, with the visual arts in easy and overlapping relationship with dance, performance, music, and words—a fluidity less available in the rigid and more established scenes in America’s older cities. Mace loves to paint what he calls “The Stumptown Chronicles,” and has captured Portland’s rapidly changing skyline by setting up his easel on rooftops, downtown parking structures, and the street itself. He relies on direct experience to fill his cityscape canvases.