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Shown for the first time at the Portland Art Museum, Shut-In Suite <\/em>by Paul Harris takes the viewer on a voyage through the artist’s physical and imaginative surroundings. In 1969, Harris received a fellowship from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Los Angeles, one of the premier print ateliers in the country. While there, he conceived of his suite. He recalls, “I lived alone in a rundown LA apartment amidst my own disorder. I had not intended to make a Shut-in Suite <\/em>. . . there was just no time to go out into the world. I shuttled between the apartment and the print center for three months. At the end of the second month I realized that my world was first, a crummy apartment and second, my imagination.” Reduced to his thoughts and immediate surroundings, Harris created tableaux that simultaneously express isolation as well as the beauty and magic of everyday life. Through dramatic cropping, extreme close-ups devoid of context, and compositions that hover near abstraction and decoration, Harris’s suite coalesces into a group that is dreamlike and elliptical, suggestive of memory and half-formed stories.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"paul-harris-shut-in-suite","image":{"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain.jpg","id":15068,"extension":"jpg","width":2000,"height":1125,"filesize":113691,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":700,"height":394,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":31636,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-700x394.jpg"},"large":{"width":1308,"height":736,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":83658,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-1308x736.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"width":270,"height":270,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":5278,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-270x270.jpg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":432,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":36121,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-768x432.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"width":1536,"height":864,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":105129,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-1536x864.jpg"},"small":{"width":375,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":10725,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-375x500.jpg"},"medium-large":{"width":900,"height":506,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":47477,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-900x506.jpg"},"card":{"width":904,"height":565,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":44951,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-904x565.jpg"},"post":{"width":975,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":47849,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-975x500.jpg"},"hero":{"width":1894,"height":1080,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":142569,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Paul-Harris-Rain-1894x1080.jpg"}}},"all_day":true,"start_date":"2025-11-20 00:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"20","hour":"00","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2026-06-07 23:59:59","end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"07","hour":"23","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"utc_start_date":"2025-11-20 08:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"11","day":"20","hour":"08","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2026-06-08 06:59:59","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2026","month":"06","day":"08","hour":"06","minutes":"59","seconds":"59"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":true,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Exhibitions","slug":"exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":201,"filter":"raw","id":17,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/17","collection":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":290,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2023-03-28 10:28:29","date_utc":"2023-03-28 17:28:29","modified":"2024-03-07 10:38:06","modified_utc":"2024-03-07 18:38:06","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/venue\/portland-art-museum\/","venue":"Portland Art Museum","description":"

The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. The Portland Business Alliance has installed way-finding signs which direct you to the cultural district, where the Museum is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is generally plenty of street parking surrounding the Museum. These spaces range from 1 \u2013 4 hours and can be paid for using a credit card or the Parking Kitty app<\/a>. There are also surface parking lots, and parking garages within 1 \u2013 4 blocks of the Museum. The closest surface lot is located at SW Main St. between SW 10th Ave. and Park Ave, and there are dedicated accessible and van accessible spaces. This lot accepts credit card or the Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n