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| Of the most recent exhibition of Natalie Charkow Hollander’s stunningly
original pictorial sculpture, Hilton Kramer, writing in The New York
Observer “says it is “ so spectacular it may leave some of her earlier
admirers (of whom I am one) wondering if they haven’t underestimated her
achievement even in the course of praising it.” She “brings to contemporary
sculpture a conjunction of gifts that in modern times have seldom – if ever-
been joined with such authority and invention.” Andrew Forge, noted painter and critic, wrote of Charkow Hollander that the pieces “address the relationship between pictures and carved relief.  Their
starting point is pictorial, drawn from Piero, Poussin or Matisse. The
imagined (flat) space of the picture is translated into the planes of carved
relief space, set back, shadowed by the depth at which it lies, a
transparency of limestone. Her deep cutting calls up powerful fantasies of
concealment, miniaturization, the power of secret places. Exhibiting the
relief’s set into rather than onto walls suggests symbolic incorporation
into the building, imaginary rooms, surrogate windows, worlds within
worlds.”Natalie Charkow Hollander was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Tyler School of Fine Arts. She has taught sculpture in several institutions: The Philadelphia College of Art (where she founded the sculpture department), The University of Pennsylvania, Yale University School of Art’s MFA program, The Vermont Studio Center, Boston University, Queens College and Indiana University. Currently she teaches at the New York Studio School. Ms. Hollander is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Louis comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She is a member of the National Academy of Design. |
 Nine Caves and Their Inhabitants, 1997 Lohin Geduld Gallery |
Left: Natalie speaking to the class Scenes from Ovid (After Tempesta) Lohin Geduld Gallery |
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Natalie laughs with her
audience, including Margaret Grimes, MFA Coordinator at WestConn. |