Eteri Chkadua-Tuite, “Requiem”, 1993, Oil on Linen, 76.2 x 101.6 cm, Private Collection

Eteri Chkadua-Tuite is a painter from Tbilisi, Georgia. She divides her time between Chicago with her husband, Kevin Tuite, and her hometown of Tbilisi. At the age of sixteen, Chkadua studied at the Tbilisi Art Academy, one of five applicants admitted out of several hundred.

Her artwork is concerned with the expressions of people. Her paintings are usually full of groups of people engaged in activity, sometimes praying, hunting, or marching. Her palette tends to be sepias, greenish browns or pale yellows.  Comparisons have been made to the Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 1500s with their round faces and bodies.