Charlie Mcilvane is a sculptor fabricating sculpture from wood. He is based with studios in Connecticut and upstate New York. He developed his interest in sculpture at SUNY, Purchase, NY. His inspiration is the transformation of found native wood into unique sculptural objects. He began to create these sculptures in 1984.

Throughout four decades he continues his passion of making objects in fluent arrangements of form. He approaches selected wood for fabrication with an intuitive response from his experience shaping forms on the bandsaw. His emphasis is to create objects of allure and intrigue. These fashioned shapes create an interplay of motion and gesture in line and form. The choice of color enhances the finished work.

The process of transforming cut and shaped pieces into a related whole creates rhythm and movement in each of his sculptures.  The gesture of composition evokes subtle intrinsic elegance and allure. Art is a result of one’s experience. Artistic language is spoken in visual expression of unified elements. Art remains as a phenomenon of human creative nature. When mind and experience unite creative visual vocabulary replicate one’s experience as intuitive impulse and expression.

Education
BFA / Sculpture SUNY Purchase,

Selected Group Exhibits

Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
Rowayton Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY
Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
Fernando Luis Alvarez gallery, Stamford, CT
Les Beaux Arts Gallery, Greenwich CT
Art on the Avenue, Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, CT
Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Bruce Museum Outdoor Arts Festival, Greenwich, CT

Awards

Charlie Mcilvane has been selected twice for First Prize in Sculpture at the Bruce Museum.