https://www.charlierolson.com/industrial-parks daily 0.75 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453133999823-L00BHWA8SVSROAZVA9BF/Industrial+Park+I.jpg Industrial Parks - Industrial Park #1 26" x 34" x 7"d; wood, paper maché, sphagnum moss, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453133999823-L00BHWA8SVSROAZVA9BF/Industrial+Park+I.jpg Industrial Parks - Industrial Park #1 26" x 34" x 7"d; wood, paper maché, sphagnum moss, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500825834406-QL58CMHNUSMQC0F6T9HG/Industrial+Park+III.jpg Industrial Parks - Industrial Park III 72" x 48" x 12"d; wood, paper maché, sphagnum moss, lucite window, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500825820940-98HQIRFG5RYBBEK9YTKW/Industrial+Park+III+detal+2.jpg Industrial Parks - Industrial Park III - detail 72" x 48" x 12"d; wood, paper maché, sphagnum moss, lucite window, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453134000014-3GKCICQOQBNETS91M0AD/Illegalize.JPG Industrial Parks - Illegalize 49" x 19 1/2" x 3 1/2"d.; wood, paper maché, lucite window, acrylic paint This sculpture has copies of the citizenship status form I-9 pasted on it, and refers to the policy of requiring employers to certify immigration status of employees, thus making it much harder for undocumented immigrants to find employment. Illegalizing people doesn't stop them from getting jobs. It just increases the likelihood that they won't get paid for their work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768665420-0X5ZQGN5UFUFZTTTOMGP/Reliquary+Patriotism.JPG Industrial Parks - Reliquary: Finger Bones of the President 24" x 24" x 28"h.; plaster, wax figures, acrylic paint, paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768668779-UTESNKUGREA22NNZ62U1/Reliquary+Avarice.JPG Industrial Parks - Reliquary: Finger Bones of the President The middle finger, of course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768714493-DU1FAR3T6QBU8MG6UH6F/Reliquary+Ego.JPG Industrial Parks - Reliquary: Finger Bones of the President Whoever achieves this office must be enormously competitive and have a huge ego. What does that imply for resulting governance? https://www.charlierolson.com/landscapes daily 0.75 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1681257126718-TZCCYNPGN0N8D1G9I9Q4/image-asset.jpg Landscapes - Clearcut (Vajrayogini) Another NYC apartment sculpture, this one inspired by the novel “Overstory” by Richard Powers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1681257126718-TZCCYNPGN0N8D1G9I9Q4/image-asset.jpg Landscapes - Clearcut (Vajrayogini) Another NYC apartment sculpture, this one inspired by the novel “Overstory” by Richard Powers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1694374072537-NZ61UZYYLHQVFYLEBSY6/IMG_1467.JPG Landscapes - Salomé Approaching the Great Eastern Sun 70" x 22" x 8"d. This is meant to depict Salomé walking through the wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1694374829014-B364XN3L2MVUVGO2OHSX/IMG_1495.JPG Landscapes - Salomé Approaching th3 Great Eastern Sun - detail Achieving spiritual realization is akin to walking through a wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1681259561202-5VY5N2X6UB0PJA8ATA70/image-asset.jpeg Landscapes - Clearcut-Vajrayogini 23”h x 20”w x 3.5”d. Another NYC apartment sculpture, this one inspired by the novel “Overstory” by Richard Powers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1681259995881-RKQXFPHUW3HKJLYC5EZN/My+Mother+Was+A+Tree+%28Vajrayogini%29.jpg Landscapes - My Mother Was A Tree (Vajrayogini) 11”h x 7”w x 4”d. Three copies of a sculpture using a 3D print of the Vajrayogini figure in “Clearcut”, shown together here in three views. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1681259905000-NIUS3Y9P78K6TWBU6OXL/Compassion+4+U+%28Green+Tara%29.jpg Landscapes - Compassion 4 U 23”h x 20”w x 3.5”d. A NYC apartment sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1681258244887-K7QKHJUD5K625RY34LEM/image-asset.jpeg Landscapes - Green Tara in Bloom 14”h x 10” x 10”. This uses a 3D print of the Green Tara in the box sculpture. There are two copies of this sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1694373324452-MQOTR868NT2SZZO0KJRL/Garden+of+Destruction+-+overview.jpg Landscapes - Garden of Destruction 2016, 36" diameter x 8" deep; A house depicted in the process of becoming compost. The composition and the shape of the house, garden and surrounding circle are borrowed from Buddhist mandala tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1694373485251-VRNHRPC6CI7Q0W3UGXMK/G+of+D+-+arch+detail.jpg Landscapes - Garden of Destruction (arch detail) Work and play, yoga and gardening, all co-occurring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1694374482569-Q3ONTJA0PFPUOP0BHSC5/IMG_1491.JPG Landscapes - Garden of Desctruction - detail Vibrant people. Rotting house. No problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1676386339576-WWCJLNU0I3KX3592CDLJ/Development+%231.jpg Landscapes - Development #1 A two-part wall mounted sculpture 36”h x 37”w x 13”d. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1676386397986-LYT6VR4G6G9A5FVRGFW4/Development+1+detail+2.jpg Landscapes - Development #1 - detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1676386421956-MF2BPKZXDP2CZ2ZKUUWR/Development+%232.jpg Landscapes - Development #2 A two-part wall mounted sculpture 52”w x 32”h x 16”d https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1676386449918-66Y3KTEU57OBKNS5N0EC/Development+2+detail+4.jpg Landscapes - Development #2 - detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1676386482304-WZTCFOMK4EQ3T6I9UR0E/Development+2+detail+1.jpg Landscapes - Development #2 - detail This is a close up of the palm in the hand of the sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453129403393-1JXLALCUPC61RDD72D5P/Burn.jpg Landscapes - Burn 34" x 40" x 16"d; wood, putty, wax figures, acrylic paint, artificial plant parts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453129401883-IVP8FEFH31ETNJNW7QW9/Burn+detail+2.jpg Landscapes - Burn - upper closeup All of my figures have four arms, because they are not meant to represent the people we see ourselves to be. They represent people with non-dualistic minds who would be very different from they way we are now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453129402636-6MCW7BRKU5WGXRPQF26M/Burn+detail+1.jpg Landscapes - Burn - lower closeup This sculpture is based on the Tibetan Buddhist burial tradition of the Charnel Ground, where dead bodies are left to be consumed by wild animals and/or openly decay. This sculpture simply depicts life and death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453129402251-OIWKNJT7XO6CB45W1KCZ/Watershed.jpg Landscapes - Wastechester 63" x 44 1/2" x 20 1/2"d; wood, paper, plaster, sphagnum moss, gravel, acrylic paint, plastic This is my rendition of Westchester County, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768450660-XRHRG6DA66I8A9K3YXUJ/America+Unsetled.jpg Landscapes - America Unsettled 24" x 24" x 70"h; Wood, paper maché, wax, acrylic paint Inspired by the book "The Unsettling of America" by Wendell Berry https://www.charlierolson.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/my-letter-published-in-the-ny-times-april-12-2021/4/21/2021 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/installing-my-show/4/15/2019 monthly 0.5 2019-04-15 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/statement-for-plastivegetation/4/4/2019 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/end-of-my-first-one-man-show-in-manhattan/11/2/2017 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/artists-statemeent-for-oxymorons-on-the-road-to-collective-insanity/9/12/2017 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/big-art-vs-big-people/7/22/2017 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/upcoming-shows/6/25/2017 monthly 0.5 2017-06-25 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/loving-nyc-sorry-for-the-usa/3/6/2017 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/2017/1/16/exhibiting-at-the-pleiades-gallery monthly 0.5 2017-01-16 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/2016/10/17/joining-the-nyc-art-scene monthly 0.5 2016-10-17 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/2016/8/22/notes-on-garden-of-destruction-landscape-series monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/2016/3/27/art-that-emphasizes-human-connection-reweaves-our-social-fabric monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/2016/1/25/sculptures-about-love-and-politics monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/blog/2016/1/18/living-in-manhattan monthly 0.5 2016-01-18 https://www.charlierolson.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127468197-89SP79KJH40EK3FI6GSF/Recyclic+%231.JPG Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #1 18" x 12" x 17"; SUV tire, wood, plaster, wax figures, artificial plant parts, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127468124-QWAJ3PTFIQ1PY1TYGBYG/Recyclic+%231+-+detail.JPG Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #1 - closeup This was inspired by an old landfill in the woods east of the Saw Mill River Parkway south of Mt. Kisco in Westchester County, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127469686-ZGZB4VJSF3PMVW4N9YP2/Recyclic+%232.JPG Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #2 18" x 9 1/2" x 15"; this was purchased by a private collector https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127469216-627BBXTOJB3TJWHIE6PJ/Recyclic+3-detail.JPG Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #3 18" x 9 1/2" x 15"; motorcycle tire, wood, plaster, wax figures, artificial plant parts, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127469038-36TC7NVP1DSI25IZHQ0L/Recyclic+%233-top+view.JPG Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #3 - wall mounted Since floor space is so precious in NYC, I designed the Recyclic series to be able to be wall mounted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1647448995422-I4S0Z2OQ4FDUWK33IICR/image-asset.jpeg Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #4 Reintegrating what we now consider waste back into our communities seems inevitable. It could also be beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1647448754898-YP54NVM7YZJ3MIPT5H4F/image-asset.jpeg Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #4 - detail With computers always at hand, I imagine some form of multitasking will follow us for a long time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1647449118379-SA1BM6NC0WWIGSLTIRCL/Recyclic+%235.jpg Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #5 25” long x 12” wide x 13” high. These can be displayed on a base or on the wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1647449252302-UDA9GNG8F4YARJ47OLZD/Recyclic+%235-detail.JPG Reclaiming Garbage - Recyclic #5 - detail If we share, there’s enough for everyone. If we horde, there’s never enough for anyone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127466837-RVYX9AW5EWZXPUX05ODJ/Plastivegetation+%231.jpg Reclaiming Garbage - Plastivegetation #1 21"h x 30" x 16"; plastic bottles, plaster, artificial plant parts, wax figures, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127466896-CEL6SWCQMAJ8S7RJAP6O/Plativegetation+%232.jpg Reclaiming Garbage - Plastivegetation #2 34"h x 24" x 17"; plastic bottles, plaster, artificial plant parts, wax figures, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453127467390-L37QW38S9XFD0E0N9D1W/Plastivegation+%232-detail.jpg Reclaiming Garbage - Plastivegetation #2 - detail I felt a bit uncomfortable with the racial purity implied by my monochromatic figures, so I tried mixing the colors up on the figures to better reflect our own mixed genetic heritages. These are really tough to photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453140074400-KQUF9GVVRYC0RJSCFSRM/Recyclic+%234.jpg Reclaiming Garbage https://www.charlierolson.com/dualities-made-whole daily 0.75 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051147518-QBW8E9PLYZFMIUZEIC8T/McPalace+%231.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace #1 30" x 27" x 10"d; wood, paper, plaster, sphagnum moss, was figures, acrylic paint, glass This series was inspired by the intersection of highway I-684 and Route 35 near Katonah, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051147518-QBW8E9PLYZFMIUZEIC8T/McPalace+%231.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace #1 30" x 27" x 10"d; wood, paper, plaster, sphagnum moss, was figures, acrylic paint, glass This series was inspired by the intersection of highway I-684 and Route 35 near Katonah, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051212596-QAQX5MBBCY0KHITVHFET/McPalace+%231+left+side.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace #1 - left side This series combines the packaged suburban landscape with palace image behind. I think many of our suburban communities appear stoic and isolated to outsiders, but the residents often close and sometimes almost tribal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453131262909-A3XQBY2CY8VSUQ2Z8WKV/Selling+Out+and+Buying+In+%231.JPG Dualities Made Whole - McPalace #1 30" x 27" x 10"d; wood, paper, plaster, sphagnum moss, was figures, acrylic paint, glass This series was inspired by the intersection of highway I-684 and Route 35 near Katonah, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051357246-8ZZR2ICAMJEACM2PEDUR/McPalace+%232.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace #2 31" x 26" x 8"d; wood, paper, plaster, sphagnum moss, gravel, acrylic paint, glass, wax figures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051395148-AU5F1KBN51OC4NB7ZR60/McPalace+%232+left+side.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace #2 - left side There’s a community underneath the packaged landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051495336-14IUCKIFTE3R0A41Q9T9/McPalace+%232+right+side.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace #2 - right side Each of the sculptures have inserts on either side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051655686-YAHVGIUBVIB09K9JMMU2/McPalace+%233.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace 3 34" x 30" x 9 1/2"d; wood, paper, plaster, sphagnum moss, gravel, acrylic paint, wax figures, glass https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1558051731413-173YKOFRRWIXBN3Q2ITH/McPalace+%233+right+side.jpg Dualities Made Whole - McPalace 3 - right side Think of the suburbs packaged and rigid. We could open our hearts and make it all much more vivid! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453131353793-6UXJMSRFFXJ04HDL164Y/Aveena+Sativa+detail.jpg Dualities Made Whole - Aveena sativa - closeup This was acquired for a private collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453131261850-TF5PV7BWFO0C480F96Y1/Aveena+sativa.jpg Dualities Made Whole - Aveena sativa This was acquired for a private collection. 26 1/2" x 14 1/2" x 3"d.; wood, plaster, sphagnum moss, wax figures, acrylic paint Cheerios are made from oats whose scientific name is the name for this sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453131261578-EWZOTYT3AUJVYLBWADGG/Duality+%233.jpg Dualities Made Whole - Duality #3 7 1/2"h. x 10" x 8"; paper, wax figures, acrylic paint A concert hall and art gallery depicted partially within "Constant Commodity" tea boxes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1611709557134-MLR96U1VQ6SG9OEHSZ9I/image-asset.jpeg Dualities Made Whole - Duality #2 A corn palace, with the human community shown on one side and industrial capitalism on the other. One Taste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1655561182375-11OWXCB1MGG646ZUHWQW/Duality+%232+back.JPG Dualities Made Whole - Duality #2 - industrial side 17 1/2"h x 10" x 8"; paper, plastic, wax figures, artificial plant parts, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1655561211144-KTJGTFDH5HUX4B1SUWBA/Duality+%232+front.JPG Dualities Made Whole - Duality #2 - palace view The upper greenhouse image depicts a garden of the "three sisters": corn, squash and peas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768242794-G7LQP5RQ1464O56OAKTE/Noisy+Solitude.jpg Dualities Made Whole - Noisy Solitude This was a acquired for a private collection. 14" h x 24" w Noise is part of our landscape now. 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wood, paper maché, sphagnum moss, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500825834406-QL58CMHNUSMQC0F6T9HG/Industrial+Park+III.jpg Industrial Parks LP - Industrial Park III 72" x 48" x 12"d; wood, paper maché, sphagnum moss, lucite window, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500825820940-98HQIRFG5RYBBEK9YTKW/Industrial+Park+III+detal+2.jpg Industrial Parks LP - Industrial Park III - detail 72" x 48" x 12"d; wood, paper maché, sphagnum moss, lucite window, acrylic paint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1453134000014-3GKCICQOQBNETS91M0AD/Illegalize.JPG Industrial Parks LP - Illegalize 49" x 19 1/2" x 3 1/2"d.; wood, paper maché, lucite window, acrylic paint This sculpture has copies of the citizenship status form I-9 pasted on it, and refers to the policy of requiring employers to certify immigration status of employees, thus making it much harder for undocumented immigrants to find employment. Illegalizing people doesn't stop them from getting jobs. It just increases the likelihood that they won't get paid for their work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768665420-0X5ZQGN5UFUFZTTTOMGP/Reliquary+Patriotism.JPG Industrial Parks LP - Reliquary: Finger Bones of the President 24" x 24" x 28"h.; plaster, wax figures, acrylic paint, paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768668779-UTESNKUGREA22NNZ62U1/Reliquary+Avarice.JPG Industrial Parks LP - Reliquary: Finger Bones of the President The middle finger, of course. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1500768714493-DU1FAR3T6QBU8MG6UH6F/Reliquary+Ego.JPG Industrial Parks LP - Reliquary: Finger Bones of the President Whoever achieves this office must be enormously competitive and have a huge ego. What does that imply for resulting governance? https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/may-25-2023-i-spend-each-day-embracing-flowers-by-yayoi-kusama-seen-at-david-zwirner-gallery-on-may-23-2023/5/25/2023 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/7bce6ea4-fefe-449b-86e4-edd4fa3bfaaf/Kusama+pumpkins+from+5-23+video.jpg Dharmic Art - “I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers” by Yayoi Kusama seen at David Zwirner Gallery on May 23, 2023 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/april-11-2023-are-the-rich-a-menace-by-hans-haacke-seen-at-paula-cooper-gallery-february-24-2023/4/11/2023 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/302ecdfa-cab0-4df3-985e-47b70297f3c8/IMG_1190.JPG Dharmic Art - April 11, 2023. (“Are The Rich A Menace?” by Hans Haacke seen at Paula Cooper Gallery, February 24, 2023) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/ouroboros-by-elizabeth-glaessner-21823/2/18/2023 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/316becd2-8b58-4a31-9643-96d5607aaa91/IMG_1174.JPG Dharmic Art - "Ouroboros" by Elizabeth Glaessner (2/18/23) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/february-6-2023/2/11/2023 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/31b5ef34-2091-4ffa-97be-b3366c058850/IMG_1172.JPG Dharmic Art - Meditation Drawings by Phong H. Bui (2/6/23) - Make it stand out This is a detail from #2/5 from Meditation Drawing Group #3 (for Irving Sandler) by Phong H. Bui https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/january-30-2023/2/11/2023 monthly 0.5 2025-03-19 https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/category/dharmic+art monthly 0.5 https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/tag/Yayoi+Kusama monthly 0.5 https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/tag/dharmic+art monthly 0.5 https://www.charlierolson.com/new-blog-1/tag/david+zwirner+gallery monthly 0.5 https://www.charlierolson.com/journal daily 0.75 2025-03-07 https://www.charlierolson.com/journal/what-is-diorama-sculpture monthly 0.5 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/53ed1003-1370-4746-8c7c-6b1d7319032b/thomas-doyle-28-sapper-ave-diorama.jpg Journal - Diorama Sculpture - Thomas Doyle Mr. Doyle makes his home in New York’s Hudson Valley region, and as resident of New York City, I am fond of the Hudson Valley. Mr. Doyle’s diorama sculptures take advantage of the consistent scale of the format to create scenes combining wildly disparate elements. His “Proxy Series” depicts clean, if sometimes broken, suburban houses next to soldiers engaged in trench warfare or houses perched on columns of dirt above soldiers marching past piles of debris. In his “Clear History” series, statues monumentalizing common internet procedure such as “Switch Profile” stand cracked and decaying next to wandering visitors. Mr. Doyle’s approach places mundane architecture and activity next to tragic implications. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/baadcc92-c888-42ba-b2cd-b00048309e89/lori-nix-kathleen-gerber-anatomy-classroom-diorama.jpg Journal - Diorama Sculpture - Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber Some diorama artists prefer to photograph their sculptures and then display the photographs. This strategy markets less expensive artwork (photographs) and simplifies transport. The team Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber create dioramas of places seemingly real and obviously imagined, and then take photographs filled with the diorama. While the photograph doesn’t have the full three-dimensional effect of the actual diorama, the sense of a world through the window remains. Most of these dioramas do not appear to include human-resembling figures, but the imprint of humans on the Earth is a predominant subject. The atmosphere of loneliness, desolation, and irony pervades their scenes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/856c206b-6f2c-4ac7-98af-ad22cb807ba0/peter-feigenbaum-trainset-ghetto-diorama.jpg Journal - Diorama Sculpture - Peter Feigenbaum Architect and artist Peter Feigenbaum creates dioramas of decaying urban buildings and places them in an urban setting and photographs them so that the actual buildings in the background seamlessly blend into his fabricated buildings in the foreground. While Doyle and Nix and Gerber reveal some anxiety about aspects of modern society in their art, Feigenbaum explores his fascination with urban architecture and settings without commentary other than his choice of subjects. He claims that his dioramas are not based on actual buildings, but their craft and detail appear completely realistic in the photographs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1655561211144-KTJGTFDH5HUX4B1SUWBA/dulaity-2+-front-.jpg Journal - Diorama Sculpture - Make it stand out Charlie R. Olson, Duality #2 (front view) https://www.charlierolson.com/journal/art-under-capitalism monthly 0.5 2025-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/dcb59591-ecad-4e7d-a18c-df9f8a466565/comedian-capitalist-art-maurizio-cattelan.jpg Journal - Capitalist Art - Make it stand out “Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/8eefc026-108f-4472-a7a1-46b1604b04d1/tiffany-cares-anti-capitalism-art-hans-haacke.jpg Journal - Capitalist Art - Make it stand out “Tiffany Cares” by Hans Haacke https://www.charlierolson.com/journal/ecofeminist-art-bridging-feminism-art-and-environmental-stewardship monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/9fe9206a-bf04-435f-a3bf-1f578ce88ce1/burn-charlie-olson-sculpture.jpg Journal - Ecofeminist Art: Bridging Feminism, Art, and Environmental Stewardship - Make it stand out “Burn”, 34” x 40” x 16” deep (photo by Ron Carran) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/f5a59c51-52ae-4a83-b276-a77ab0a68eb6/development-2-charlie-olson-head-and-hand.jpg Journal - Ecofeminist Art: Bridging Feminism, Art, and Environmental Stewardship - Make it stand out “Development #2”. 52” x 31” x 16” deep (photo by Ron Carran) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/f1f47531-8cee-4b65-b84b-4d546b16a023/louise-bourgeois-spider-installation.jpg Journal - Ecofeminist Art: Bridging Feminism, Art, and Environmental Stewardship - Make it stand out Installation view of a Louise Bourgeois exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris in 2008.Paul Cooper/Shutterstock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/6cee8aed-7a17-46ff-a493-a2b8e1eb00c1/two-canoe-wangechi-mutu.jpg Journal - Ecofeminist Art: Bridging Feminism, Art, and Environmental Stewardship - Make it stand out “Two Canoe” by Wangechi Mutu https://www.charlierolson.com/journal/art-made-from-trash monthly 0.5 2025-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/dfd7900c-acc7-4b3a-86ff-25f53a4e35bd/chakia-booker-sculpture-recycled-tires.jpg Journal - Art Made from Trash - Chakia Booker As a New York City-based artist with training as an environmental scientist, I see many artists working with trash, and I appreciate all of them, but a few stand out to me. Modern steel-belted radial tires comprise a substantial waste stream with limited options for recycling and reuse. The artist Chakia Booker has developed techniques and the strength to shred, twist, and transform this intractable garbage into forms so graceful they practically breathe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/bce9eda8-eece-4c86-adf9-4a50892cdb24/bill-miller-painting-linoleum-landscape.jpg Journal - Art Made from Trash - Bill miller Pittsburgh-based artist Bill Miller retrieves linoleum from abandoned homes in his area resulting in a palette that completely transforms the base material into “paintings”. The resulting landscapes and portraits convey the richness of the living subject matter with a material that embodies the artist’s own geographic and cultural history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/42faac20-028c-401b-8880-caf99095e628/christy-rupp-recycled-bird-sculpture.jpg Journal - Art Made from Trash - Christy Rupp One artist who has been working in the art from trash world for years and whose work more explicitly connects our trash with our living Earth is Christy Rupp. Ms. Rupp refers to her discipline as “Discard Studies”, and her work speaks simultaneously to the tragedy of the ecological burden of human waste as well as the persistence of life and our planet’s ecosystems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/d261bfa7-4687-494c-b84b-ac280a00e498/recyclic-tire-sculpture-series.jpg Journal - Art Made from Trash - Recyclic View Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/d9854273-ccc5-4b18-94cb-e3ba9261bc83/plastivegetation-plastic-bottle-trees.jpg Journal - Art Made from Trash - Plastivegetation In my “Plastivegetation” series, plastic bottles are reshaped to resemble plants, with people living in and around them. These sculptures present trash as part of the material of our daily productive lives. https://www.charlierolson.com/blog-articles-charles-olson daily 0.75 2025-03-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/829f787f-8329-4004-8471-70374cfeffaf/Development+2+detail+4-2.jpg Blog https://www.charlierolson.com/contact-index daily 0.75 2025-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1652696060104-K4ABSIPW3U72SQQZG2PJ/Development+1+detail+1-2.jpg CONTACT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/3399872d-0f8e-4aec-971c-a5289b611d4c/Surreal+Artist+%26+Sculptor+%7C+New+York CONTACT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.charlierolson.com/collections-lp daily 0.75 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/1652700089396-AIOZUBJJNB3T1IRCSTZT/Burn+detail+2-2.jpg Collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/d14acdcc-6cbc-4761-844e-fd79e688b758/Burn+detail+1-2.jpg Collections - Landscapes Our body is our home. The Earth is our home. The Earth is our body. Most of these sculptures depict the continuity between what we often perceive as inside and outside of our bodies. The pyramids sometimes interspersed with thick black lines (“Watershed” and “Development” #1 and #2) are a schematic I invented to suggest suburbia as seen from an airplane. “Garden of Destruction” depicts cultivation and celebration of a garden that is overgrowing the house within it. “Compassion 4 U” renders a field of Phragmites australis, an invasive wetland grass that has grown to large monocultural fields in the New York metropolitan area. These fields catch fire easily when dry in the fall. In this scene, the “fire” might be Enlightened Mind emanating from (leafy) Green Tara represented within the fire halo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/acb5993a-92d0-4c53-b8f4-a744dafd544a/McPalace+%232-2.jpg Collections - dualities made whole These sculptures bring illustrations of thoughts that might be considered opposites: industrial agriculture vs. community gardening and suburban fragmentation versus a communal palace, into a single object in an attempt to suggest aspects of one inherent in the other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/183021f9-2f10-4914-a669-ae68a0f17e7e/Industrial+Park+III-2.jpg Collections - Industrial Parks “Industrial Park” is on one of my favorite oxymorons. These sculptures represent environments contorted by arrogance and avarice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5689607ea976af7af9a73074/d261bfa7-4687-494c-b84b-ac280a00e498/Recyclic+%234-2.jpg Collections - Reclaiming garbage I’ve always been interested in creating sculptures from consumer packaging (see the McPalaces above). In the 1980s I went through a brief period of making political statements out of supermarket packages and smuggling them in to stores and leaving them on the shelves. These sculptures incorporate discarded items, a used tire from an SUV and two-liter soda bottles, into landscapes. So much human refuse circles the world that we can’t escape it. With these sculptures I imagine actively integrating what we now consider waste back into our lives. Aspects of this seem inevitable if humans endure on this Earth. https://www.charlierolson.com/videos-index daily 0.75 2023-06-06