ELIAS FINE ART.(Chuck Holtzman)(Brief Article)

CHUCK HOLTZMAN

Long known for his intricate, architectonic wood sculptures, Chuck Holtzman has spent the past five years focused exclusively on works on paper. Originally meant as an adjunct to sculpture, drawing has become an end in itself. Featuring delicate gestures and lines in charcoal, india ink, and Conte crayon, often made with drafting instruments, many of these works have also been cut, sanded, and reconfigured like neoconstructivist jigsaw puzzles.

The earlier works here blend solid shapes with vaporous ethereal forms in a kind of abstract narrative; organic yet ...

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