Artist Features
A Chicago artist who paints on location and finds beauty in the grit of the city.
Marc Vitali: These are not the images of Chicago you’d see in a visitor’s guide.
Still, the odd corners the paintings depict are as much a part of the city as Navy Pier or the Museum campus.
New City Review | Maya Polsky Gallery
Chicago subway stations may be nasty, but they do their job, and the same could be said for Andy Paczos’ on-site paintings of them. Of course, the best part of any transit platform is the wildly diverse humanity passing over it, and Paczos only worked in these spaces when they were deserted
Paintings of the Chicago Subway by Andy Paczos
Initially he was kicked out by CTA security but after prolonged negotiations Paczos was granted a ''Right of Entry '' contract to work at certain stops, in certain places and at specific times of the day. This was the first time the CTA has granted an artist permission to paint in the subway.
Andy Paczos: "The Eye and the Hand," Opening Night Talk
On-site Chicago artist Andy Paczos' gives an enlightening and humorous talk about his 30 year career, the challenges of being an on-site/plein aire painter and his passion for detail at the opening of his latest show, Andy Paczos: "The Eye and the Hand", Sunday, January 20, 2019, at the Ed Paschke Art Center, 5415 W. Higgens. The exhibition runs through April 18th, 2019.
Andy Paczos blazes a trail for painting in Chicago's subways.
He’d gotten away with it in early fall last year when he painted a landscape at the Clybourn Metra station. The conductors spotted him—messy brown hair and stained jeans that clearly have served as a brush rag—but no one said anything.
Lake Street Artist
A day in the life of on-site painting with Andy Paczos.
Third Coast Review
Paczos not only paints urban scenes that we may have seen before, but he also captures scenes that may be unfamiliar to us, such as Finkl Steel Site Before Development. In this work, we see a vacant stretch of land where a thriving steel mill once stood. There is a richness in the details of this desolate setting, such as a pile of stones, strewn nails, an old railroad track that is no longer in use, and power lines in the distance.
The Chicago Maroon | Paczos abandons avant-garde, embraces demolition
What’s interesting about Andy Paczos’s work in his new exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, Abandoned Demolition, is that it charts a middle course between these two extremes. His landscapes document a momentary truce between man and nature, and evoke the serenity of abandonment in the midst of the city’s din.