“What does one say to explain the world we live in. How to describe our time and place in terms that reflect our experiences or the vast landscapes of human endeavors over the last 2,000 years being testament to our own successes and failures?”
Gary Polonsky focuses on the goals he has set for himself. To capture a thin slice of our "American" experience, in all of it's quotidian glory. By offering his humble attempt producing something beautiful, fun, and lasting. Something, that hopefully reminds us of the wonder and richness of now.
Artist Statement
Breaking from the flat surface of traditional painting, Gary Polonsky brings 3D painting to a new level of depth and focus in the food series. After working on traditional stretched canvas for most of his career, Polonsky began an exploration of non-traditional canvases, eventually combining Balsawood, Styrofoam and wire-mesh to create larger-than-life wall-based constructions.
In the leaf series, he monumentalized autumn leaves, bringing our attention to their forms, patterns and textures. Now, in the food series, he celebrates popular American foodstuffs, enlarging them to the point where we must confront them in all of their processed glory.
To somehow make a career of creating artwork, satisfying for myself and others. To offer my humble attempt at producing something beautiful, and fun, and lasting. Something, hopefully, that reminds us of the wonder and richness of now.
About
Born and raised is Los Angeles, Gary Polonsky went to Santa Monica City College and then on to Art Center College of Design (then on 3rd street in LA). It seems, even early on, that he was always interested in art, drawing cars, building models, looking at art with more than just a passing interest. A turning point for Gary was the work of Jackson Pollack and the abstract expressionists. It looked, and was, a very creative, and satisfying experience. That was the spring board by which he began his serious venture into the art world.
