Hypnotic arrangements of geometric forms in Bruce Pollock’s paintings will captivate viewers

Wilmington, Del. – 2 October 2008  - The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts announces Bruce Pollock’s solo exhibition in the Beckler Family Members’ Gallery from October 3 through November 16, 2008. Pollock’s six paintings in this exhibition titled Levity are pure-color investigations of fractal formations.  Inspired by the vocabulary of natural forms and the infinite complexity of fractals, Pollock applies these mathematical self-similarities into an engaging array of geometric experiences.  The luminous colors and organic shapes in Pollock’s abstract paintings capture the paradox of framing the infinite within a finite space.  His painted networks of circles, hexagons, or florets focus the eye and mind on a fixed point, creating spatial illusions. The opening reception for Bruce Pollock will be held at the DCCA during the Wilmington Art on the Town extended gallery hours on Friday, October 3, 2008, from 5 – 9 p.m.

Light Dextral (from the Latin dextra, meaning ‘on the right’) is a painting of clusters of circles that spiral to the right and hangs next to Blue Sinistral (from the Latin sinistra, meaning ‘on the left’), which is a painting of circles that spiral to the left.  Referring to his use of darker colors for Blue Sinistral, he alludes to the connotations of the word sinistra, which have traditionally been associated with the left-handed being adverse or wrong, the opposite of dextra, which implies correctness and has traditionally been associated with the right hand as a pledge of faith. 
 
Pollock’s paintings can mesmerize the viewer.  The bold colors and branching, spiral, or radial forms vibrate optically.  Each painting in Levity demands an introspective evaluation of the aggregates of individual—often miniscule—geometric units used to build the larger compositions.  The paintings really draw the viewer in as they seem to recede into infinite space. Pollock feels that the meditative quality of these abstractions is universal.  To him, the transcendent value of geometric shapes—especially those that are found in nature—is comprehensible and familiar to all.  His paintings are themselves acts of meditation.  He often carefully and tirelessly reworks them.

Pollock remarks,  “I spend just as much time looking at the paintings as I do painting them.”
 
Visit the DCCA on Wednesday, October 29, from 12 –1 p.m., for an Art Salad Artist’s Talk by Bruce Pollock about his exhibition, Levity.  More information on Art Salad can be found at www.thedcca.org/programsartsalad.html

Bruce Pollock (Philadelphia, PA) received a BFA in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Pollock has had solo exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in Santa Monica, CA, at Gallery OneTwentyEight, and at the Nour Foundation Gallery in New York, NY.  He regularly exhibits in Philadelphia, at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Gallery Joe, the University of the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  He is the recipient of the Friends of Arcadia Gallery Award, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.  His work is found in numerous collections nationwide including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Free Library, the New York Public Library, Rutgers University, Cigna Corporation, Comcast, and Duane Morris.  More information on Bruce Pollock can be accessed at www.brucepollock.com