Thursday, December 22, 2022

Portraits of the Palette - 2022

 



Misha Livshultz


Like myself, Misha is more of a formalist than anything else - probably because both of our fathers had that kind of mid 20th Century art education.


Don Ryan

A strong sense of willful character in this piece.

Gregorio Mejia,   Girl Without a Pearl Earring

Hah! 





Helen Oh

A drawing large enough and good enough to make me of think a Toulouse Lautrec poster.

Lenin Delsol

Evidently  the heroine of a young adult novel

Pat Bruchin, Gladiator

I know this big, burly, yet gentle model, and this is a good subject for him.

Andy Conklin


A modern young woman in a German Renaissance painting.
The ephemeral meets the timeless.



James A. Burrell, Errol the Painter

A fine portrait of a fine painter


Stuart Fullerton
Once again, the crisp, economical execution has me thinking of Sir Henry Raeburn.
A style appropriate for aristocrats.



Gregorio Mejia, Young Latinx

Did Gregorio just join the PnC?
I look forward to his future shows.




Bobbie Puttrich

Feels like the cover to a romantic novel

Barbara Humbert, portrait of Paula

Definitely has Paula’s personality 
She’s a folksinger from Chile.
To meet her is to love her.




Maureen Warren
A strange monoprint


Pamela Gibson

Another portrait of our favorite model, sculptor, handyman, Bolshevik, Hebrew scholar, and recently elected boardmember. (Misha)

Alvino Perez

Looks like a young Sandra Bernhard




Clayton J. Beck III, Jim Nawrocki in the uniform of  18th Century Polish Infantry

While painterly flourishes have been often used to enhance a figurative painting, here it seems to be the reverse. The result is an unusually colorful and fidgety kind of minimalism. There is no apparent meaning here other than brushed paint.