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Planck derives inspiration from broad art historical references, contemporary practices, as well as his own previous work. The artist will take up an image in one painting, then use it as a transition to his next piece, making the same image over again in a new way. It follows that Planck prefers the liquidity of a painting in progress to a final statement. On this subject the artist writes, “I am more convinced about the actual act of appropriating rather than what is appropriated – I am more into the act of having painted rather – or even the actual painting – while the painting still stands, its role not valued…” He has stated similarly of his art as a whole that it is, "not necessarily about a well-developed body of work, but more about the actual practice of trying to have a well-developed body of work.”
Deirdre Smith, Nikholis Planck: 18 x 24, 2012
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