Plansky
Van
Stein
Turturro
Plansky
Strang
Turturro
Strang
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PAST
SHOWS
Elder
Gallery Presents
"Introductions:
Our New Artists"
Exciting
work by four painters who have recently joined Elder Gallery
will be featured in an exhibition entitled Introduction, Our
Four New Artists. Featured artists include Carl Plansky
of New York, Michael Strang from London,
Ralph Turturro from New York, and Thomas
Van Stein from Santa Barbara.
Introduction will open with a reception on Friday, April 1,
2005, at six o’clock and will continue through April
30th. Each artist has created a number of paintings for the
exhibition to showcase his unique style and technique.
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.”
“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 Artist’s Magazine. 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 4 a.m. 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. A recent painting excursion to Europe
resulted in one of his paintings being purchased as a birthday
gift for Price Albert of Monaco.
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.
Michael’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.
Van
Stein
Elder
Gallery
1427 South Boulevard
Charlotte, North Carolina 28203
Phone: 704-370-6337
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