WORKS BY ACCLAIMED SCULPTOR NATALIE CHARKOW HOLLANDER ON DISPLAY IN CANADAY LIBRARY

Deeply carved stone reliefs by Natalie Charkow Hollander will be displayed in the Canaday Library Gallery from Nov. 8 to Dec. 12. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday, 1-5 p.m., except for Nov. 23-28. Free to the public, the exhibition "Reliefs in Stone: Sculpture by Natalie Charkow Hollander" opens with a lecture by the artist at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, followed by a reception. (Later that evening at 7:30, Charkow Hollander's husband, distinguished poet and scholar John Hollander, will give a reading in the Ely Room of Wyndham Alumnae House, as part of the College's Creative Writing Program Reading Series.) For more information, contact the Office for the Arts at x5210.

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Carved in box-like formats, many of Charkow Hollander's works are miniature, three-dimensional interpretations of well-known paintings, including works by Bellini, Matisse, Poussin and Tintoretto. The artist also has a composition in marble titled Nine Caves and Their Inhabitants. Made of limestone, marble or sandstone, the scenes range from three inches to five inches deep. Some sculptures are contained within single boxes; many are geometrically subdivided to form individual compartments, each with its own internal scene.

In describing Charkow Hollander's work for Art in America, critic and curator Karen Wilkin suggests that the sculptor has "reinvented the relief, translating time-honored conceptions of pictorial space into unexpected, wholly modern structures that simultaneously embody a complex dialog with conventions of representation and defy them."

A native Philadelphian who attended the Tyler School of Fine Arts, Charkow Hollander began teaching and founded the sculpture department at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts). Subsequently, she taught at Yale University, Boston University, Queens College, City University of New York and Indiana University. She continues to lecture widely at art schools and university art programs throughout the United States and currently teaches stone carving at the New York Studio School.

Commissioned by the city of Philadelphia, Theodore Danforth, Queens College and Radio Corporation of America (RCA), her works are held in a number of private and public collections.

"Reliefs in Stone" is made possible through the support of the Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library, as well as the College's Center for Visual Culture and Office for the Arts.

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