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.
With an ear ring, Josey Davis
4' 7.5" wide x 2' 10.5" tall
soft pastel, charcoal on paper
2009
My Fair Mistress
4' 7" tall x 3' 2.5" wide
soft pastel and pencil on paper
2009
The Pope, Lorin
4' 7.5" tall x 5' 3" wide
soft pastel on paper
2009
Portrait of Gabriel Kulka
4' 5" tall x 2' 3" wide
soft pastel, charcoal, pencil on paper
2009
Still life of Paulius
6' tall x 3' 5" wide
soft pastel, pencil on paper
2009
Portrait of Nori
3' 9.5" tall x 2' 11" wide
soft pastel on paper
2008
Spot and Anne Menge
6' .5" tall x 3' 5" wide
soft pastel on paper
2008
Mr. Greg Mather
6' 1.5" tall x 3' 7.5" wide
soft pastel, charcoal on paper
2008
Portrait of April Hale
5' 9.5" tall x 3' 1.5" wide
soft pastel, pencil, charcoal on paper
2008
Gabriel Kulka
4' 7.5" tall x 2' 3" wide
soft pastel on paper
2008
Mia
sorry, I don't remember her size
soft pastel, charcoal on paper
2008
sold
Myself
4' 7" tall x 3' 5.5" wide
soft pastel on paper
2008
Wyatt
6' 11" tall x 3' 9" wide
soft pastel, charcoal on paper
2008
Portrait of Kate
3' 7" tall x 4' 7" wide
soft pastel on paper
2008
Mr. Dave Kirk
3' 6.5" tall x 2' 8.5" wide
soft pastel on paper
2008
Portrait of Lorin
3' 1.5" tall x 4' 1.5" wide
soft pastel on paper
2008
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
"Nude Kate"
53" tall x 48" wide
charcoal on paper
2007
"Felicia"
45" tall x 41.5" wide
soft pastel, pencil on paper
2007
award granted from Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman MT.
"Kate on sofa"
43" tall x 55" wide
soft pastel on paper
2007
"Lorin and Kelsey"
60" tall x 52" wide
soft pastel on paper
2007
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