Summer Suite 2025
Reflections on the past, present, and future of Chicago's Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art
Sometime in the early eighties, before South Asian sculpture filled the central corridor of the Art Institute, a very small gallery was located at its western end - and it was used to display very small sculpture.
Some pieces in this show, like the above, would have qualified to be there. They’re amazing.
Julia Sulzen, Evening
Every so often, a really accomplished artist joins our quaint organization- and I feel it’s my duty to vote that person our Gold Medal. Not to mention that this is a wonderful cityscape— so luminous solid, and brooding. I so much want to enter it.
Sondra Pfeffer , Bad Hair Day
I don’t collect sculpture - I make it. Every shelf and pedestal in our house is already taken.
But if I did collect - this is one I’d like to live with.
The bad-hair lady has a joyful presence - and that's what a sculpture will not have unless the sculptor welcomes it into the surrounding space.
Andrew Conklin, Three Pairs of Shoes (second place)
Such sharp, elegant , lucid 17th C. Dutch figurative painting is so rare in contemporary art.
Kinky? Perhaps.
Those tootsies sure look delicious. No wear and tear on either the feet or shoes.