Gold Medal Show - 2024

 

Debra Balchen proposes that we have a separate gold medal for sculpture - and she has worked so hard to study, make, and display this piece - I’m inclined to agree - if only for her.

No other sculptor has given this much attention to lighting as well as pedestal display.

Debra apparently learned a lot in those classes she took in Italy.

Coco has been given such an elegant treatment.

Sondra Pfeffer

Bo Zhang

Tor Muehl

Tor is organizing a class on mask making - with Coco as the instructor.

Kinda reminds me of the Iroquois funny face masks at the Field.

Tim Leeming

No need to list his name-

Tim is our dumpster specialist 

Kuhn Hong

A rather poignant scene where a refugee family’s life all comes down to a few square feet of public pavement in a foreign city.

Tom Zamiar’s  fantasy goddess

meets a stately bust of Coco

by Misha Livshultz

Mary Qian

Mary is giving other competitors a break 

by putting this modest portrait in the show

Leslie Outten

This rustic scene reprises one of the club’s early masters,

the  father of Ivan Albright.

Tony Bedolla 

Shouldn’t Tony be painting portraits for the ruling class

of some country in South America?

Stuart Fullerton

The  quiet, upscale elegance of William Merritt Chase.

Muriel Christensen

 Michael Van Zeyl

I love that gleaming strap over her shoulder.

Erroll Jacobson 

Erroll seems to be moving towards geo-form painting.

Lenin’s Del Sol, City Lights

My pick for the gold medal 

Both the model and the artist appear so bored -

and yet a pre-historic fire-breathing monster

is destroying the city behind her.

What’s not to like?

Andrew Conklin, The Barista.  (Gold Medal Winner)

I put this piece last because I want to encourage our artists to show new work in the Gold Medal Show 

( though actually, we’ve seen Lenin’s piece before as well )

We really should take up a collection to buy it for our permanent collection. It’s a great still-life, and the model, the uber-talented  Cass, may well turn our to be the most famous artist who has ever been a member.

Here she is, working a menial job, and daydreaming of a brilliant future.