Charles Seplowin
Charles Seplowin · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Plastics
- Practice
- Collage, Mixed Media, Sculpture
Charles Seplowin has a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. While he has exhibited widely in the US he has mostly shown in Mexico where he has had had three museum exhib… Full biography
Biography
Charles Seplowin has a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. While he has exhibited widely in the US he has mostly shown in Mexico where he has had had three museum exhibitions: National de Bellas Arte Mexico, Museo de La Ciudad de Santiago Mexico,and the Museo de Querretaro and many group shows in galleries.He has received grants including PSC-CUNY New York City Grants, Shuster Award, NYFA Grant, and steel gates at Montclair State University and Bronx, New York. He has taught for 21 years undergraduate and graduate courses in sculpture and design at Lehman College, CUNY. He has also taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Montclair University, and the Guggenheim Museum.Since 2021 he had a one man show at the Interseccion Arte Contemporaneo, in San Miguel de Agende Mexico, where he shown for 14 years with the curator Margaret Falloni . He has also been in a group show at the Carter Burden Gallery by N Y Artist Circle, and the virtual show Forever Young sponsored by Islip Museum.
Artist statement
My work grows from geometric abstraction and organic movement. I begin with simple shapes—digitally drawn or hand-cut—and build from there, letting rhythm and variation lead. The sculptures evolve in layers, the final form a natural result of repetition of form.
The color and texture allude to cast bronze, and the sculptures are made from Styrofoam and hand-painted to achieve that metallic finish. This illusion invites a double-take from the audience: the mind sees metal, but the reality is the opposite.
Each piece is a passage—a maze, a cluster, a breathing structure. They twist, branch, spiral, and unfold like organisms, architectures, or memories trying to take shape. The result is work that asks the viewer to slow down, look twice, and discover movement inside stillness.
What you see is not what it is.
