Good Medal Show 2026

Val Yachik, After the Storm

Not a painting but 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.

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

G

Gregory Mejia,  Original Sin

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

(When I was 18)