Favorites

 

Sondra Pfeffer

I hope  "Favorites" becomes at least a biennial event at the Palette and Chisel.

It has pulled in many members who don’t often exhibit - and since we may assume that the pieces on view are their favorites, it tells us something more personal than the Gold Medal or Portraits shows.

I don’t recall seeing Sondra’s work before - and it’s a good match for the fiery person I’ve come to know in the coach house.

Errol Jacobson

Errol’s cityscapes are often on display - yet still I’m intrigued by the one he calls his favorite (among those not yet sold, that is)

It’s as much a parade of colors in space as it is an urban scene.

Don’t know why it’s usually raining in Errol’s imaginary worlds -

he seems like such a cheerful fellow.

Yeongchi Wu

The enigmatic Dr.  Wu has returned with an enigmatic abstract painting.

It’s shape makes it feel like it’s already falling off the wall.

Dr. Wu has also presented the first rebar sculpture

I’ve ever seen on our gallery.

Rather calligraphic.

Michelle Thomas

A very bright and cheerful scene

I’d like to visit.

 Simon Cygielski

An expressive portrait

too well designed to be called a cartoon.

Simon has had several careers -  currently works as an architect.

Dan Kolleng, Venus Rising

This piece feels both real and mythological -

like a snapshot taken on a family vacation to Greece.

John Nasco

No one has been here long enough to remember when John moved into his northwest studio on the second floor.  He has always marched to the beat of his own drum.  I can never figure his pieces out - but  this is a nice portrait of Fast Eddie.

Phyllis Brodny

Possibly intended as a cautionary tale about global warming.

Mary Qian - Portrait of a Young Artist 

Haven’t seen Mary’s recent work for many years.

It’s great to see her take on Cass,

the phenomenal painter who showed her work last year.

Barbara Kay Herring

More ambiguous- even ominous - than what Barbara usually shows.

Hope nobody got hurt.

Andrew Conklin

For me, the naked and the nude (By lexicographers construed As synonyms that should express The same deficiency of dress Or shelter) stand as wide apart As love from lies, or truth from art…. Robert Graves

I would say that this figure is naked - like someone in a shower room.

Michael R. Margherone

A charming view of someone possibly stuck in her room during Covid. Though Michael has probably never seen her, this kind of figuration and flat pictorial space reminds me of this local artist

and this one too.

Don Ryan, Doc Adams

Stephanie Weidner

A strange sense of humor

with a faint hint of Gertrude Abercrombie

Stephanie Weidner

Stuart Fullerton 

I love depictions of our third floor studio,

this one shows the back of Bo Zhang.

I visited his studio a few years back

I wonder what he’s up to now.

Mischa Livshultz, The Stoic

A piece that Misha did more than forty years ago, back in the USSR.

A grim reminder of life in Eastern Europe.

Shannon Burch

At first it felt like a domestic vignette -

then I noticed our studio furniture.

Albino Perez,Texas

I wish this painter had a website.

John Jacobsen. Atop Mount Taygetus

What’s happening here?

Is this a mountain in Greece or the Lincoln Park lagoons?

Possibly a scene from an online game.

Errol Jacobson, Innocence

Didn’t recognize this one as Errol’s.

Perhaps it’s an older piece