....Paul Carlotto graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 2003. Since then he has been not rich and is as little employed as possible, so that he can build objects that have no practical use, at all hours of the day. He ekes out a living in Providence, RI (the last of the family-run cities).

....This body of work has been developed around the relationship between drawing and sculpture. Three-dimensional objects, of various media, are created within the context of the two-dimensional picture plane. Also within the picture plane, are two-dimensional objects, also of various media. The two and three-dimensional elements inform each other and a composition is created. In the original incarnation of this concept, shown here, all of the work was fabricated with paper. The next evolution of this concept are objects made with many different materials, and with a stronger focus on the nature of how a picture plane can decrease the apparent spatial reality of things; even things that are very much three dimensional.