Exhibit: Quadrilogy

Lenin Del Sol

There's only a few artists who make painting at the Palette and Chisel a full-time job.

Lenin is one of them.

His work dominates this show - but he could easily fill the gallery several times over just with what he's painted this year.

With his interest in detail -- and setting his figures into appropriate settings - he's the kind of artist who accompanied expeditions of the  Field Museum back when they were exploring remote areas of the world.

This one would work well as the cover

of a steamy paperback mystery novel

from the 1940's.

This one reminds me of "The Five Senses" by Hans Makart

The stark poignancy of this  one reminds me of Mary Qian

who has also spent many hours painting on the third floor.

Nick Moscalink

In a few years of drawing at the club, Nick has really become quite a Classicist

with precision in both figure and design

Sue Kuc

Like Lenin's, these pieces also look like book illustrations - but the books are from the 19th instead of 20th century, and their subjects are less sensational.

Like Louisa May Alcott.

Blessing Akalaonu

Blessing has a wonderfully different sense of mise en scene.

This evening in Chicago reminds me so much of Joseph Tomanek's view of 18th and Laflin in the Vanderpoel Museum.


Tomanek (1889 - 1974) was an early member of the P&C