Charlotte Schulz's drawings begin with words. A dedicated reader, Schulz fills notebooks with passages from her reading, along with primitive sketches and lengthy analyses, memories, and insights. Schulz transforms these jottings into fractured vignettes, as if they were illustrations ripped from a book long since lost. Using a blend of charcoal and careful erasure, Schulz creates an alternate plane knitted together from, by her own admission, "photographic and art historical reference." These strands of recognizable reality seem stranded however, waiting to be sewn back together to form a mythic meta-portrait. Schulz's "Object Lesson," an exhibition of drawings, books, sketchbook pages, photographic references, and notebooks curated by Karlos Carcamo, will be on display through January 28 at ParaSite at the Iron Fish Trading Company, 167 Main Street, Beacon. (845) 590-4849; www.charlotteschulz.com.