Good Medal Show 2026

Val Yachik, After the Storm

Not a painting ad much as an eternal moment of experience 

with ontological implication.

Ker-plunk 

(Tree falling in forest)

My pick for the Gold Medal.

Misha Livshultz

Another very strong presence that seems to last forever.

Misha is one of those Jews who could have stayed in Egypt to make sculpture.

Erol  Jacobson

Don’t know why it rains wherever Erol goes.

But it was raining on Caillbotte as well.

Kuhn Hong

So many supposedly irrelevant details strenuously compete for attention.

But that’s how a sunny day on a big city street can feel.

 

Stuart Fullerton

Heroine of a melodramatic mystery

Stephanie Weidner

Another case of the gallery being more interesting than what’s on the wall.

The rear door is beckoning.

Andrew Conklin

The weirder Andy gets, the more I like him

Muriel Christensen

Uncomfortably squeezed between the more and less expressionistic.

It ended up winning the Gold Medal.

Don Di Sante

A sculptural head 

Might

that have done better as an enamel 

to perk up the surface

Roger Akers

Instantly recognizable 

club personality 

though usually seen fully clothed

Tom Zamiar

Instantly recognizable as Tom’s world

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Gregory Mejia,  Original Sin

If it were album cover art, I’d buy the record.

(When I was 18)

Julie Sulzen, “No Parking Anytime”

Did not impress me enough to shoot it, but it impressed others enough to  win  the People’s Choice Award as well as an Honorable Mention.

The yellow fence does project itself well across a large room.

Faculty Show 2026

 

Debra Balchen

Yikes!

The subtle smile of Quattrocento Italy.

Wasn’t expecting to find it at the PNC.

  

Michael Van ZEYL

Love the ambitious vision.

, but kinda painful to look at.

The pieces need to be further apart and might work better in mosaic than paint.

Helen Oh

Palette and Chisel as a royal academy

Larry Paulsen

More like how people really are.

Portraiture of the 19th instead of 18th century.

Helen Oh

Flowers with inappropriate emotions.

Stuart Fullerton

Could have been in that AIC show three years about Van Gogh and friends painting in the suburbs of Paris. 

Grim realty of suburban sprawl.

Don Yang

Tony Bedolla