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April Issue 2005
Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Offers Works by New Gallery Artists
Exciting work by four painters who have recently joined Elder Gallery in Charlotte, NC, will be featured in an exhibition entitled, Introduction, Our Four New Artists, on view from Apr. 1 - 30, 2005. Featured artists include Carl Plansky from New York, Michael Strang from London, Ralph Turturroin from New York and Thomas Van Stein from Santa Barbara. Each artist has created a number of paintings for the exhibition which showcase their unique style and technique.
Carl Plansky
Bordering on abstraction, Carl Plansky's forms are created through a series of choreographed gestures. With each painterly brushstroke he composes symphonies on his canvases. Whether landscape, still life, or figure, Plansky's skilled handling of his medium is displayed amongst his whirlwind compositions. The diverse topography of Plansky's paintings heightens the sense of vivacity in his works where of mountains of built up paint tower over streams of slightly stained canvas. The activated surfaces of the canvases work to unsettle any fixed, stationary view of his work, instead inviting the viewer's eye to wander purely after each fluid motion. Saturated with intensity, his canvases burst from their frames and refracts luscious color into their surroundings.
Ralph Turturro believes that discovering the beauty and rightness in every day life - in the oddest places - happens without planning. "It compels me to see my life and my work moving together in a subjective time frame, responding to moments in a day of observations - stimulated by: conversations, music, road signs, lyrics, poems, etc," says Turturro. "These experiences become inspirations to paint and, while painting, inspire departures to make marks, build textures, seize colors and images."
Thomas Van Stein
"My approach lets me paint
nocturnal scenes that shimmer with life while retaining a spontaneous,
painterly quality," Thomas Van Stein wrote in an article
on how to paint nocturnes in . Unlike many plein-air painters
who do an occasional nocturne under the full moon, nearly half
of his paintings are night scenes. He awakes between 2 and 4am
and sets out with his easel, often working until sunrise. Born
in Pasadena, CA, Van Stein paints the California landscape with
his unique style and exuberant enthusiasm.
Michael Strang
Michael Strang studied under David Poole (President of the Royal Society of Portrait painters), and others at Wimbledon and Camberwell Schools of Art. His paintings have been shown at the Tate Gallery and other galleries throughout the UK. Strang's work can be found in various collections in Canada, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Corsica and the United Kingdom. His paintings in the Elder Gallery exhibition will feature classic Impressionistic scenes of the city of London as well as the English countryside where he maintains one of his studios.
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