Robert Polansky

Slovakian artist Robert Polansky's thirty year career covers conceptual, digital and graphic art in multiple styles. Appropriately, his recent acrylic paintings are most influenced by abstract expressionism, but bare traces of other styles and media. Polansky's works evoke material weight and kinetic movement simultaneously. He creates impressions of frenetic dynamism with bright strokes of streaming colors and simmering backdrops. This effect results partly from his paint application, but also from his ongoing practice of revision. Polansky continuously returns to paintings to alter and re-shape them, scraping and gouging their surfaces.

The layered effects of this process harkens back to Polansky's conceptual work. They also provide clear evidence of the artist's touch, evoking the painter whose influence he cites as most significant, Jackson Pollock. Polansky certainly recalls the American modernist in many works, but his recurring geometric motifs also bare traces of Kandinsky and, in his portraits particularly, cubism. While alluding to several preceding styles, Polansky's process and final effect are entirely his own.