Charlie Levin

Current Work: Topologies

My drawings are based on the branching patterns of trees. Drawn in charcoal on paper, they explore darkness and light—white branches emerging like bones from a watery void, or twisting upward with vital force into the sky. The installations are composed of many small drawings assembled into a single large-scale image — simultaneously whole and fragmented. Each builds on the one next to it, but there are always spaces between. Like the way land breaks up at its edges into islands, or the way societies and knowledge aggregate, my drawings gather in clusters and fray at the edges. 

Earlier work