Charlie Engelman's sculptures arise from a spirit of plastic freedom, nourished by the artist’s dedicated and roaming research and his immersion in the language of objects. The volumes and contours that give form to Engelman’s work are both expressive and refined; with his technical and material facility allowing him to explore the abundant prospects in the process of eliciting a static shape out of a material blank. In these forms, Engelman rouses a displaced familiarity often lying just beyond the associative, in which referential resonance tremors through the work.