Animal Husbandry
Ketzia Schoneberg
March 31 – April 25, 2026
Corrine Woodman Gallery
Reception: Thursday, April 16, 5:30 – 7 PM
About the Exhibition
Ketzia Schoneberg’s mixed media paintings and drawings constitute as temporal self-portraiture, depicting animals and the female figure within a psychospiritual framework and an expanded notion of species sentience. These feminist works combine elements from her active dream life, longstanding meditation & visualization practices, cultural background and familial relationships to create a complex interplay of intimate scenes. She frequently investigates movement-based plays of power, the erotic and sensuality, while offering novel perspectives on the labor of motherhood.
Animal imagery functions on several levels in her work. The figures are avatars – the manifestation of an embodied deity or the expression of a person, an emotion, or an idea. They are presented close to one another and to the human characters in an intimate fashion as the friend, the child, the familiar or the lover. She suggests an interrelationship with animals in her work free of customary hierarchies, pointing to our shared sentience, origin, and fate. This element of her work is a deeply personal response to the climate crisis, global deforestation and species extinction.
Using strong, layered mark making and active brush work, she underscores motion as a central concern of her practice, with most of her images combining abstraction and figuration. She uses acrylic paint, wax crayons, grease pencils, colored pencils, charcoal, chalk pastel, graphite and ink in her pieces, along with a variety of substrates including translucent and opaque Dura-lar, stretched and unstretched canvas, museum board and toned papers.
About the Artist
Ketzia Schoneberg is a contemporary visual artist, classical violinist and college professor whose mixed media paintings and drawings are exhibited internationally. Her instinctual artworks function as temporal self-portraiture, depicting animals and the female figure within a psychospiritual framework and an expanded notion of species sentience.
In 2025 the artist was awarded a Career Opportunity Grant from the Ford Family Foundation. She has been a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow and a Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture Artist-in-Residence. Schoneberg’s works were included in both the 2025 Artworks Northwest Biennial and the Around Oregon Biennial. Her one-woman show, “Animal Husbandry” opens at the Corinne Woodman Gallery in Corvallis, Oregon in April of 2026.
Schoneberg received her MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2023 and completed her undergraduate education at the San Francisco Art Institute and San Francisco State University. A fourth-generation artist, she was born in Los Angeles, grew up in San Francisco and is currently living and working in the Pacific Northwest. Schoneberg is a lecturer and Studio Head of Drawing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and formerly a visiting assistant professor at Willamette University and Southern Oregon University.