Chelsea Tower in Chelsea District

Steven Charles's work is both colorful and decoratively detailed. In what looks like a fiesta color palette, abstract squares are anointed with pinpoint circles, and appear as city blocks from an nighttime aerial viewpoint. Though free standing, some of the skyscraper-like sculptures were inaccessible to a walk around them, this made them less successful as a three dimensional work. A more mature piece, "Kim 2009", is a larger painting and has a more sophisticated color scale. The work has more neutrals and is more three dimensional than later works. The bright pinpoints sharply contrast the dark background. Some of the smaller paintings look like exotic tiles; they also look African inspired. Other pieces are chameleon in their ability to have texture, form, or relief while appearing monotone color. Even when it looks like there is no detail there is greatly at closer inspection.