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March Issue 2007
Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Carl Plansky
Elder Gallery in aCharlotte, NC, will present the exhibit, Painterly Expressionism, featuring works by Carl Plansky, on view from Mar. 2 - 31, 2007.
As a youth, Plansky greatly admired the New York School of painting. When he moved to New York as a young artist 37 years ago he was able to meet, befriend, and learn from many of his heroes including Willem de Kooning and his wife Elaine, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Phillip Guston.
Bordering on abstraction, Plansky's paintings evoke the innate tension between stability and movement. Applying paint with large brushes, rags, and a plasterer's trowel, Plansky uses brash, voluptuous strokes to build up his paint so that certain areas of his paintings are thickly coated while others are almost bare. The activated surface of the canvases works to unsettle any fixed, stationary view of his work. Every piece invites the viewer's eye to wander freely after each fluid motion.
Painterly Expressionism contains approximately twenty-five paintings which have been greatly influenced by the amount of time Plansky has recently spent in Budapest. Even though the artist is inspired by modern New York energy, his expressive use of color can be traced back to Van Gogh, Delacroix, Veronese and other masters. His assured handling of oil paint and his obvious enjoyment of this medium's spontaneous effects give his work great drama and immediacy.
Plansky's fluid and spontaneous style reflects his passion for painting. Each work in his solo exhibition at Elder Gallery bears testament to his courageous and exploratory nature. Be it a figure painting, landscape or still life, his paintings seem to burst from their frames to refract luminous color into their surroundings.
Born in 1951, Plansky studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and the New York Studio School. His work is represented in numerous private and public collections. Plansky currently teaches at the Maryland Institute of Art, lectures around the nation and resides in New York and Budapest.
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