Urban Sketchers

 

Jim Sweitzer, Ike from Lombard

Most urban sketchers normalize.

Taking whatever weird thing is in front of them,

 they process it, like sausage, into something that might be expected.

The pieces I like do the opposite.

Rachel Grossman, Trailside Museum

Love the irregularity of the railing.

And all those fortuitous triangles. 

Sondra Pfeffer , Salvage Company

A nice spirit of gentle anarchy.

Sandra Beaty, Caldwell Lily Pond

Well - Ok - this is a piece of sausage.

But it’s my favorite brand,  Cezanne.

This would not have been out of place in his recent show on Michigan Ave.

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Del Hall’s portraits of the Palette

 

This really is a phenomenal event in the history of our organization.

Del Hall, a retired photojournalist, has been attending our events for about fifteen years and taking shots of our  photogenic membership as well as our models.

Not everyone is in this show- but it remains a pretty good record of the past decade - kind of like a high school yearbook - though I would have-referred a collection of selected paintings and sculptures - rather than just our smiling faces.

(The terra cotta bust in the corner of my above photo is a portrait of Del by Misha Livshultz - whose portrait appears in the upper left corner)