“On the Town,” which was included among the 174 pieces in the Pastel Society of America’s 51st Annual Juried Exhibition in September 2023, is one of 24 works selected for an exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art, in Youngstown, Ohio. My deepest gratitude to Dr. Louis A. Zona, Butler Executive Director and Head Curator -- and to PSA president Jimmy Wright and everyone else at Team PSA!

"On the Town" (Pastel, 2022, 17"-square)

I am delighted to have “Open House Chicago” (Pastel, 2023, 24”H x 19”W) hang in the annual student/faculty show at the Old Town Art Center. Thanks, as always, to my pastel teacher, Kathleen Putnam Newman — although I painted this pastel in my studio, I did multiple preparatory watercolor, gouache, and pastel sketches in her class.

I am delighted to have my pastel “Open House Chicago” (2022, 24”H x 19”W) hang in the Palette & Chisel’s member exhibition in conjunction with Open House Chicago weekend. Come visit the historic 1874 building — I’ll be helping man the front door 1:00-5:00 on Saturday, October 14!

I’m delighted to be displaying three pieces in the first Works on Paper member show since 2019! —

A studio piece, based on Jack Siegel’s photograph: “My Woman from Tokyo” (Pastel, 2019, 38”H x 26”W)

A 3-hour piece drawn in-person in Jim Hajicek’s studio on paper made by Kathi Beste: “Maggie Maybe” (Vine Charcoal & Pastel, 2023, 24”H x 19”W)

A 30-minute sketch in Holden’s online Rembrandt session for Silhouette & Shadow: “The Troubadour” (Pastel, 2023, 16”H x 12”W)  

Come join us at the opening reception, 6:00-9:00, on Friday evening, August 18. 2023!      

I am delighted to be exhibiting “Riverwalk” and “Hyde Park Jazz” (shown waiting to be hung) in the Urban Sketchers Chicago show, held in conjunction with the July seminar. Please join us for the Opening Reception on Friday evening, July 7!

I am delighted to be including two pieces in this just-for-fun Palette & Chisel Member Show. I painted “After Fantin-Latour” (Pastel, 2019, 12”H x 9”W) as a warm-up exercise in Casey Klahn’s self-portrait workshop for the Chicago Pastel Painters. I painted “Whitney Channels Toulouse-Lautrec” (Pastel, 2020, 17”H x 11”W) in Whitney Master’s Silhouette & Shadow session inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec.

Come join us Friday evening, January 27, at the Palette & Chisel for the reception!

I will be displaying “The Boxer” (Pastel, 2020, 27”H x 19”W unframed), a portrait of Katharine that I painted over three weekly sessions in Jim Hajicek’s studio right before the Covid lockdown.

I am delighted to exhibit two pastels: “Max’s Rorshach” (18” x 18”, 2020), which I painted in my studio while classes were held online due to Covid, and “Max at Ten” (12” x 9”, 2022), which I started in a pet portraiture workshop with Pam Hamilton and finished in my Old Town pastel class with Kathleen Putnam Newman. Please join us Sunday, November 20, 2022, from 2:00 - 5:00 PM for the exhibition reception!

I am delighted to have two pastels, “Loop Bound” and “Maggie’s World,” in the Palette & Chisel’s member exhibition in conjunction with Open House Chicago weekend. Come visit the historic 1874 building!

"Joyeux Noël" (24"H x 30"W) is included in the 50th annual juried exhibition of the Pastel Society of America -- and won the Wholesale Frame Company Award. The show posted online on September 6, 2022 (https://www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org/.../Ann.../index.html) and is open to the public at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC, from September 12-October 6 (reception on Friday evening, September 16).

As described by PSA President Jimmy Wright in his catalog introduction: "Out of 1,124 anonymous submissions, 123 artists were carefully selected by PSA Master Pastelists Marcia Holmes (LA) and Nancie King Mertz (IL), as well as by the exhibition’s lead juror, PSA Hall of Fame honoree, PSA governor, and IAPS president, Richard McKinley (OR).” My deepest gratitude to the jury of selection and to the juror of awards, Executive Director and Head Curator of the Butler Institute of American Art, Dr. Louis A. Zona. Special thanks to the Wholesale Frame Company for donating my award.

The Chicago Pastel Painters biennial juried member exhibition hangs the month of August at the Palette & Chisel Academy. My thanks to the juror of selections, Kendra Kett. Please join us Sunday afternoon, August 28, for the closing celebration! Here's my piece, "Gazelle Lost in Thought" (19"x13"), painted during a session of the New Orleans Drawing Group over Zoom.

The Chicago chapter of the worldwide Urban Sketchers movement — see the Manifesto on the Urban Sketchers Chicago Facebook page — has been recording and sharing our visual impressions of the area since 2012. This exhibition was originally scheduled to run during the June 2020 seminar – many thanks to the Palette & Chisel for deferring both, twice! The images displayed on these walls reflect scenes from the Before Times, life under Covid (including three of my Procreate “USkAtHome” themed sketches) and the welcome resumption of in-person gatherings.

Please join us at the Opening Reception on Friday, July 8, from 6-8 p.m.!

Evelyn Brody, “USk at Home: Reflection” (Procreate, March 29, 2020)

Exhibition in conjunction with the biennial (or, because of Covid, this time the triennial) convention of the International Association of Pastel Societies. Many thanks to jurors Robert Carsten, Wende Caporale and Isabelle V. Lim. I can post the image when the show opens!

Post-script: Here’s the image of “The Roar of the Greasepaint” (Pastel, 12” square, 2020)!

When Covid hit in spring 2020, pastel artist Sandra Burshell migrated her weekly New Orleans Drawing Group to Zoom, and invited artists (in any media) to join in. Two and a half years later and counting, Sandra’s right-hand person, pastelist Darlene Bigus-Doheny, put out a call to participants and organized a spectacular virtual gallery of works from the first 100 sessions:

https://www.kunstmatrix.com/en/new-orleans-drawing-group

Kunstsmatrix has a feature that allows a given participant to collect a display of just her work; my 13 images are available here: https://art.kunstmatrix.com/en/taxonomy/term/115814

I’m delighted to have “The Venus Minuet” (Pastel, 2017, 38” x 27”) appear in this themed exhibit by multiple artists. (Because it was traveling, this piece was unavailable for my 2018 solo show at this gallery.) Please join us on Sunday, February 6, from 2:00-4:00, for the opening reception! Gallery hours are Tuesday – Friday 10 AM – 5 PM | Saturday 10 AM – 1 PM

February 27 Update: “The Venus Minuet” tied for the People’s Choice Award!

I have two works in the show: “Breathless” (Pastel, 2021, 24” x 18”) (shown) and “Loop Bound” (Pastel, 2019, 26” x 16”). My thanks to the juror of selection, Yael Maimon.

My thanks to Mat Barber Kennedy, juror of selections, for accepting two of my pastels, “My Woman from Tokyo” (Pastel, 2019, based on a 2018 photograph by Jack Siegel, 38”H x 26”W) and “Deux Soeurs dans les Deux Magots” (Pastel, 2018, 14”H x 16.5”W). And my gratitude to Aron Packer, Judge of Awards, for bestowing an honorable mention to “My Woman from Tokyo”!

Due to the coronavirus, this exhibition will be online only — in an extraordinarily realistic online viewing platform — available at www.chicagopastelpainters.org

Due to the coronavirus, this exhibition will be online only, available at https://pswc.ws/pastels-usa-2019/. 

Jury of Selection: Mary Aslin, Brian Bailey, and Julie Freeman.

                        “The Venus Minuet” (Pastel, 2017, 38”H x 27”W unframed)

“The Venus Minuet” is included in this online exhibition organized by the International Association of Pastel Societies. Jury of Selection: Amanda Houston, Barbara Benedetti Newton, and Brian Bailey. Images are maintained at http://www.iapspastel.org/iapshow_display.php