Most artists working at present, especially in N.Y.C., haven't both the time and patience to work in stone. Unfortunately those who do have little sense of the nature of the medium. Casey Schwarz is an exception to this rule. He has the gift of finding the soul of the medium and giving it form and gesture while maintaining all respect for the density, weight, and patterning a particular stone has. The relationship or rather dialogue he has with the material is apparent in the forms he produces. They are neither fully figurative nor fully abstract in their naturalistic sense. What he conveys are the balances between what is human and what is natural. His work is both soft and hard, moving and still, clearly classic in composition, yet full of an energy which is thoroughly modern.