67 Portraits: A 9/11 Memorial Tribute

In loving memory of my friends and colleagues at investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

2026 — Solo Show — Perakos Family Cares Gallery, 67 Portraits: a 9/11 Memorial Tribute, October 16 - October 31, Washington Depot, CT 2026 — Solo Show — Mark W. Potter Gallery, 67 Portraits: a 9/11 Memorial Tribute, September 27 - October 7, Watertown, CT 2026 — Solo Show — MacDowell NYC, 67 Portraits: a 9/11 Memorial Tribute, September 8, 9, 10, New York, New York 2026 — Open Studio — Artist Talk and Q& A, 67 Portraits: a 9/11 Memorial Tribute, September 5, 6, Roxbury, CT

*67 Portraits* on display at The Perakos Family Cares Art Gallery at The Frederick Gunn School in Washington, CT. Photo Credit: Lincoln Turner Photography

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

67 Portraits is a series of expressive paintings unified by a limited palette, honoring my friends and colleagues from investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, lost on the 88th and 89th floors of 2 World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Most of the reference photos used to create these portraits are from the New York Times “Portraits of Grief” series and the Voices Center for Resilience, supplemented by KBW community-sourced memorial imagery. This series is my offering to them.

Each painting is 16 x 12 inches — all sixty-seven the same size and format. They are distilled interpretations that simplify form, remove backgrounds, and present each person within the same visual language, with the intention of honoring them as individuals while also conveying the sense of a community lost together.

The paintings are rendered in a limited palette of warm taupe, dusty rose, and pale blue— reminiscent of the clear blue sky that morning — so that when hung together, they appear bathed in a warm light.

We were such a young firm. Beautiful people in the middle of their lives, with families and friends who loved them, and colleagues who will never forget their faces or laughs. I thought if I could paint them, I could show the enormity of what was lost. These portraits are an attempt to make those lives visible again. It is my intention that the sixty-seven paintings remain together — a unified field of remembrance.

Katie Ré Scheidt Roxbury, CT 2026

They are not for sale or commercial use. Each family is welcome to a complimentary fine art print of their loved one's portrait.