Selected Comments Concerning the Art Work of Audrius V. Plioplys:
"Audrius Plioplys is a neurologist and neuroscientist who also happens to be a shrewd artist...he has been involved with some of the strongest contemporary currents--abstract painting, conceptual art, temporary installations, photography--drawing upon the content of one profession to feed the other." Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune
"A metaphysical mind"
Tobie Lanou, What's Up In Art, Washington, DC
"Blessed with splendid imagination"
Harold Haydon, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
"His work caused a fire in my mind"
Stewart Turnquist, Curator, Minneapolis Institute of Art,
exhibit catalogue, Minnesota Energy
"One thing is for certain: Plioplys has the power"
Fran Addington, Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis, MN
"Audrius Plioplys is one of the few Lithuanian-American artists (along with the world famous Fluxus representative George Maciunas) who can be considered to be a pioneer of conceptual art."
Ingrida Korsakaite, Kulturos Barai, Vilnius, Lithuania
"In the author's juxtaposition of pictorial and visual elements the viewer finds elements of surprise, contradiction, tragedy, and peace.'"
Algimantas Kezys, Lituanus, Chicago, IL
"Plioplys asks that the viewer become an active interrogator of everything he sees....One never feels at home with an image or with a particular way of looking at it; images become concepts rather than copies of reality, deconstructions of seeing rather than documents of the world....The strength of this show lies in the way its motifs converge into a powerful depiction of displacement. The texts dislocate the photos, making their subjects conceptual, metaphoric..."
Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL
"It's different; in fact, it's unique! . Set against stark white brick walls, the bold, bright canvases have an almost magnetic effect ."
Pat Somers Cronin, Beverly Review, Chicago, IL
"Thoughts about thinking, which are evoked by the tension between the two extremes of expression (text and image), the interplay of their meanings, conformity and nonconformity, are the substance of the artist's works."
Laima Lauckaite, Art of the Diaspora (Iseivijos Daile), Vilnius, Lithuania
"Physician, artist, but above all-philosopher"
Danguole Andrijauskaite, Art of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
"Plioplys combined the scientific with the creative with some of those results as definite stand-outs in this show"
Benita Heath, Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, KY
Catalogs of Audrius Plioplys work are available at www.plioplysbooks.com
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