Nikholis Planck (b. 1987, Arlington, VA) lives and works in New York, US. The artist’s practice defies categorisation and instead stretches across painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and editions. Planck’s paintings are firmly rooted in observational drawing while questioning the medium’s traditional boundaries.
The artist’s shaped canvases are a result of his self-referential approach, in which he repurposes and upcycles previous works to produce paintings anew. One of the defining features of Planck’s paintings is the waxy texture of the layered surface onto which he not only applies recurring muses and motifs using oil paint but also embellishes with personal ephemera as a sort of living archive—shreds of a checklist, an exhibition flyer; found paper; past show posters. Many of Planck’s projects have paired mixed media paintings with low platforms or stage constructions and included performance schedules.
Planck has worked with numerous independent publishers to produce printed material and regularly self-publishes his work in book, print and zine form. Planck’s books and publications organise his drawings and collages as well as writing, “bootlegs”, and documentation of his projects.
Exhibitions
Servane Mary, Barry X Ball, David Adamo, Yuji Agematsu, Ryan Foerster, Jason Fox, Tillman Kaiser, Arnold J. Kemp, L, Justin Matherly, John Miller, Christopher Myers, Nikholis Planck, Nicolas Roggy, Sally Ross, Davina Semo, TARWUK, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Frederick Weston, Servane Mary, Huma Bhabha, Kathleen Ryan
Strange Attractors The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 3: Lost In Space
