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.