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Elder
Gallery
presents
Carl Plansky
Painterly Expressionism
March
2 - 31, 2007
Larry
Elder with “Profile in Yellow” by Carl Plansky
As
a youth, Carl 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.
Painterly Expressionism will open
with an artist’s reception on March 2 and will run through
March 31, 2007.
Carl Plansky discusses his work in Elder Gallery's exhibition.
 
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