Pollock's Solid Ground exhibit opens at Back Porch May 4
The Back Porch Café in Rehoboth Beach presents an exhibition of Maryanne Pollock paintings titled “Solid Ground” from Thursday, May 4 through June 5.
“The experience of standing before the ocean results in an intersection of human being with nature that creates the solid ground from which my work emerges,” Pollock said.
She has been called a modern transcendentalist by art critic and filmmaker Andrea Perkins. Her current solo exhibition of more than two dozen painterly geometric abstract paintings at the Back Porch Café reflects her commitment to expressionist color and classical compositions.
Her passionate layering of sand, sumi ink and paint evoke ephemeral micro and macrocosmic worlds. Intricate brain wave patterns, aerial views of deserts land and cityscapes are alluded to and ultimately imbue a luminous palette. Plein air studies of Cairo, Istanbul, Paris, Washington, Utah and Rehoboth Beach inform her paintings directly. These boldly abstract inner-landscapes are simultaneously energetic and serene with pure transcendent color.
Pollock is a graduate of Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She received her bachelor of fine arts in printmaking with a teaching certification in 1981. Pollock continued her studies in painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran College of Art and Design and has done graduate work at the American University. Living, working and exhibiting extensively for six years in Egypt, including the State Department’s Arts in Embassies program, profoundly changed her work.
She has lived and worked in her studio in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. since 1992. She recently exhibited in Genoma Contemporary, contextual to the Venice Biennale. She is represented by Ralls Collection, WDC, Skoto Gallery, NYC and Genoma Contemporary, Venice Italy. Her next solo show will be opening June 7 at the National Democratic Women’s Club in Washington, D.C.
Pollock is no stranger to the Delamrva Penisula. She has been an artist in residence for the Delaware State Arts Council, has exhibited at their headquarters in Wilmington and taught at the Rehoboth Art League and in the Cape Henlopen School District. This Is her second show at the Back Porch Café in Rehobeth Beach,
She will be an artist-in-residence at the Rehoboth Art League from June 11-15. She will be teaching adults and children. For information on their classes, contact the league.
For details contact maryannepollock@gmail.com, 202-588-1521 or go to www.MaryannePollock.com.
