“I began drawing with wire in 1997 when, as a student at The Maryland Institute College of Art, I became frustrated with the separation between my hand and the line I was making on paper. I wanted to hold the line in my hands and bend it with my fingers,” CW Roelle writes on his website.
The Rhode Island artist twists dark annealed steel wire with pliers into drawings in air—still lives, kangaroos, witches, sailing ships, cityscapes, scenes referencing his job as a mail carrier.
Roelle writes that his exhibition on view at Julian’s, 318 Broadway, Providence, through the week after 2025 Valentine’s Day includes art he’s made over the past decade—as well as new sculptures depicting fire escapes and a portrait of a front door. Roelle also has art on view in the group exhibition “Transition of Power” at 13 Forest gallery in Arlington, Massachusetts, from Jan. 11 – 31, 2025.
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