Charlie Spitzack
 "Evolutions in Print"
 By Pete Milosovich

Print plates ready and primed, colors drying...approaching unworkable ‘death’, 
a race against time that  demands  speed and efficiency during production, yet contradicts the end result.  Color schemes utilized in a vast range of styles, patterns, and compositions that bombard the senses with indefinable shapes and patterns. A denial of recognizable contexts bewilders and compels...

    The quality and texture of the work relies on compositions of abstract forms that remain unbound by current conventions of hyper-realism. This characteristic of the digital era tends to eradicate the artist’s subjectivity, and produce generic manifestation of the super-realistic. If this approach represents a current mode of thought, the work of Charlie Spitzack embodies the antithesis of this all too common approach.

Wood prints stem from a far older tradition.

Hunched over, contorted, and disfigured in the extreme- the human body in Charlie’s work tends to evoke the human condition as a process born out of constant struggle, whereas the use of subtle illusions like hidden vermin, a legion of saluting pins before the weight and might of the ball, or the apparent denial of subjectivity within the vibrant linear patterns of a copper print; represent masterful creations that compel the imagination along myriad paths of contemplation.
(c) Pete Milosovich 2011 with permission from Charles Spitzack


Charles Spitzack
thenewnumber2@comcast.net
cspitzack.com
651-260-9266