Nelleke Beltjens: Seeking Subtleties

Nelleke Beltjens, a young artist from The Netherlands, makes formalist sculptures of steel and concrete or wood and plaster. The diminutive works in this show are about relationships. Together, two separate,interlocking steel forms make one piece. Another piece is made from concrete and steel, fused. In yet another, lines of intense color run vein-like through a white plaster form. Over and over Beltjens explores spaces between forms and the interface of contrasting material, creating relationships between the unrelated and raising the questions, “What separates? What makes a whole?”