Current Show
September 10 - October 3, 2026
Harold Wortsman
A Sculptor’s Work on Paper
September 10 - October 3, 2026
Gagné Contemporary is pleased to announce HAROLD WORTSMAN | A Sculptor’s Work on Paper, a solo exhibition featuring recent prints, drawings, and an exclusive artist’s book by New York–based artist Harold Wortsman. On view from September 10 through October 3, 2026, the presentation highlights Wortsman’s tactile translation of three-dimensional form onto flat ground.
Primarily recognized for his sculptural work in clay, Wortsman maintains a rigorous works-on-paper practice that both informs and is informed by his dimensional sculpture. The prints on view are produced through hand-tooled aluminum intaglio, developed in collaboration with master printers Sheila Goloborotko and Kathy Caraccio. Treating the metal plate as a physical block, Wortsman cuts, chisels, and gouges the aluminum using stones, knives, and carving tools. Once carved, the plates are hand-inked, proofed, and pulled on an etching press.
Complementing the intaglio prints, the gallery will debut a newly published artist’s book created exclusively for this exhibition in a limited, signed edition of 30. The volume brings together a cohesive series of drawings originally rendered in oil pastel and graphite on Legion Stonehenge Kraft paper, underscoring the artist’s intuitive handling of texture, weight, and line.
As noted by Switzerland’s Aargauer Zeitung, Wortsman “creates forms that bring to mind archaic cult objects and exude a quiet concentrated strength.” Across sculpture, printmaking, and drawing, his practice unearths timeless geometries rooted in material presence.
Harold Wortsman is a sculptor and printmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His work is held in major public, private, and university collections across North America and Europe, including The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), Yale University, The New York Public Library Print Collection, The New-York Historical Society, Smith College, Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Brandeis University, The Newark Public Library Special Collections, and the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Print Archive.
