jennifer pulchinski

Faces

About 3ft tall x 7 ft wide
charcoal on paper/ done with models in person
2005-2006?

Portraits by Jennifer Pulchinski

You know, there is only one way to really experience and SEE this art work....and that is in person.
Remember these pictures are LIFE SIZE or larger.  They are huge.

Profile #1, Profile #2 and Profile #3

40" tall x 30" wide each
charcoal, soft pastel on paper
2007
nfs

"Maxine's Green Room"

very large
charcoal, soft pastel on paper
2007
nfs

"Crouching self"             "Self above"                   "Nude self"

54.5" tall x 43.5" wide                                             36" tall x 43" wide                                                53.5" tall x 36" wide
all finished with charcoal, soft pastel on paper
2007ish

     Within the expanses of pricey Fabriano paper, confined in infinite stark blanks, swathed in black, these people look at you.  They're staring at you, just about to ask you.  What's you name?  Your religion?  Where do you work?  How old are you?  How can you be moving like that, your hands are symmetrical?  Not ours.
     We are, they seem to be thinking.  We are, we exist:  she makes us.  And we can see you.
     Jennifer Pulchinski works in wrecked proportion.  These are her people, warts and all, made present just as they were in her studio, a week ago.  Or in her living room, last year.  Or sitting in an old chair, waiting for her hands to stop moving, for the bright lights to be switched off, for conversations to pickup where they left off when she stopped and asked, "Can you stay like that for a while?"  "Can I draw you?"
     Ms.  Pulchinski is a dealer in charcoal powders, in swift, deft fingers working the black dust of the pastels.  Her people, her faces float outward from strange, twisting abyss.  And, there in the gallery, they see us looking.
                                                                                                                                                                                          Written by Wyatt Dietsch

                                                                                                                                                                                          Novelist and Poet

                                                                                                                                                                                          11/11/08

jen pulchinski portraits