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Structure and Imagery Blog: Janet Kurnatowski Gallery- Morphed
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Janet Kurnatowski Gallery- Morphed
Sculpture Exhibition featuring works by:
Sandra Casti James Clark Forrest Myers Gelah Penn Heidi Pollard Kris Scheifele Rebecca Smith
Exhibition dates: Feb 17 - March 18, 2012 Opening Reception: Feb 17, 7 - 9 pm Hours: Fri & Sat 1 - 7 pm, Sun 12 - 6 pm
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery 205 Norman Ave. Brooklyn, NY 718-383-9380 janetkurnatowskigallery.com
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Zane Bennett Contemporary Art - Under 35
Under 35 / Glass, Prints, Painting, Sculpture
Group show featuring works by:
Dunham Aurelius Karina Hean Michael Petry Heidi Pollard Holly Roberts Matthew Szosz Tamara Zibners
Exhibit Dates: Feb 24 - March 23, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, Feb 24, 5 - 7 pm
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art 435 S. Guadalupe Santa Fe, NM 87501 T: 505-982-8111
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What if an Hourglass Swallowed an Orchid?
Roswell Artist-in-Residence brochure featuring an essay on Heidi Pollard's paintings by distinguished New Mexico poet Lisa Gill.
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SCA Contemporary - Always Nowadays: Painting in the Land of Enchantment
Always Nowadays:
Painting in the Land of Enchantment
Scott Anderson
James Hart
Heidi Pollard
Agustin Pozo
Melissa Scherrer
Margi Weir
John Wenger
SCA Contemporary Art is proud to present Always
Nowadays: Painters in the Land of Enchantment, an exhibition curated by
Karl Hofmann and Larry Bob Phillips. Always Nowadays will showcase a
cross-section of painters working in New Mexico, representing the curators’ search for
continuity between earlier generations of painters and the diversity of today’s painting
practices. From post-apocalyptic visions to abstract interpretations ofnatural phenomena, Always
Nowadays showcases influential and
deeply rooted NewMexican painters as well
as newcomers who are exploring new frontiers while remainingconnected to painterly
traditions.
Exhibition Dates: June 10 to July 15, 2011
Opening reception: June 10, 5-8 pm
Hours: Thurs & Fri 12 –
5
And by appointment
SCA Contemporary Art
524 Haines NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505.228.3749
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Transvagrant @ Warschaw Gallery: Heidi Pollard, Recent Works
TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery are pleased to present
HEIDI POLLARD: RECENT WORKS.
The exhibition will open with an Artist's Reception on Saturday, May 21, from 4 - 7 PM. Pollard's paintings are mostly small in scale and high in octane, simultaneously self-referential and metaphorical - images born of the reconciliation of opposites. Gestural swaths of color host various occupations by shapes and drawn constructs, some diagrammatic, emblematic, or cartoon-like, many flirting with representation. Her works mine the rich vocabulary of painters from Kandinsky to de Kooning, abex to minimalism, and, in particular, the decisive, yet poetic, brusqueness of Phillip Guston. Currently a painting fellow at the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Roswell, New Mexico, Pollard has been the recipient of a CUE Art Foundation Artist-in-Residence, New York, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited at various venues nationally including P.S. 122, New York, NY, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, New Mexico State University, and Tyler School of Art and Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA. This is her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Curated by Ron Linden
HEIDI POLLARD: RECENT WORKS May 21 through July 4, 2011.
Warschaw Gallery 600 S. Pacific Avenue San Pedro, CA 90731
Gallery hours: Monday through Saturday, 11 AM - 5 PM, and by appointment.
For visuals or additional information, please call 310-600-4873. This exhibition is made possible in part by the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles and the Art, Culture, and Entertainment District of San Pedro, CA.
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New Mexico Magazine: A World Beyond
Johnny Boggs pays a visit to the RAiR residency in Roswell, NM.
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Unsayable: Recent Work by Heidi Pollard
Dibden Center for the Arts at Johnson State College,
Johnson, VT. Through May 30, 2010
In Heidi Pollard's exhibition, lively jewel-toned paintings combine geometric clarity and painterly texture. The artist references one of her heroes, Frederick Hammersley, and his whimsical paintings in Hammersley's Duck. The painting is roughly bisected by a field of aqua blue on the left and crimson red on the right. An opaque stroke of black sits wetly on the red section, visually connecting with the blue section, where a knot-like black pattern overlays a sheer gold pattern. Pollard builds tension and lush layers with color and composition.
Working almost exclusively in oil, Pollard allows her pieces to dry between layers; thus, they mature before exhibition. Her patience has its corollary in each painting's slow unfolding before the viewer. Wheel attracts immediately with a cartoonish, gear-like shape in the foreground. It is typical of a group of her paintings that combine brushy, abstract strokes with concrete shapes that sit on top of the painting's surface, while swishing brushstrokes and layers of paint swirl beneath. These works captivate the eye, then go on to satisfy intellectually and emotionally with their energetic handling and depth.
Pollard's works on paper have a special presence in this exhibition, combining her visual vocabulary of brush strokes and geometric fields with her affection for the particular surface and texture of paper. In Two Keys, Pollard painted thin washes of oil paint on unprepped paper. The result is a velvety surface texture, alive with concentrated pigment that simultaneously floats forward and soaks back into the paper. Pollard's sinewy paint strokes hold the composition in balance, creating a kind of dance in creamy whites and mossy greens.
Overall, Pollard's works are a study in aesthetic paradox. Her heroes are the hard-edge painters of the 1960's, yet her art glows with a new formalist warmth. These works are layered yet flat, simultaneously textured and spare. They explore the color, geometry, and motion of painters that came before, but with originality, subtlety, and affection. These paintings are not "about" something else; they are a unique voice transmitted through paint. Clear aesthetic purpose and visual rhythm echo across Pollard's surfaces; her bright colors and bold strokes enliven the corridors of the mind, where thought and visions mingle.
-Amy Rahn
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Paper Works at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
January 22 - February 21, 2010
Reception: Friday, January 22, 7-9pm
Gallery Hours:
Friday-Saturday 1-7pm
Sunday 12-6pm
205 Norman Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11222
718.383.9380
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Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Unsayable: Recent Work by Heidi Pollard
Dibden Center for the Arts Theater
Johnson State College, Vermont
Exhibit: January 18th - May 30th, 2010
Artist Talk & Reception: March 18th, 3 pm
Gallery Phone: 802.635.1469
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Kandinsky's Heirs: Newsweek slideshow by Peter Plagens
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McKenzie Fine Art, New York
Horror Vacui
Group Exhibition
June 12 - August 1, 2008
McKenzie Fine Art is pleased to announce its summer group exhibition, "Horror Vacui," featuring works on paper by the following artists: David Ambrose, Astrid Bowlby, Jacob El Hanani, Lori Ellison, Lee Etheredge IV, Adam Fowler, Kevin Hart, David Kinast, Maureen McQuillan, James Nelson, Aric Obrosey, Heidi Pollard, Emily Stern, Philip Taaffe, Barbara Takenaga, Don Voisine, Sarah Walker, Andrea Way, and Laura Sharp Wilson. The exhibition will open on Thursday, June 12th with a reception for the artists from 6 to 8 p.m. and run through Friday, August 1, 2008.
Does nature really abhor a vacuum? Scientifically, this Aristotelian theory regarding the "fear of open space" was disproved centuries ago. But for artists, the desire to create work where all (or nearly all) the space is filled stems from a number of motivations. Largely eschewing figure/ground relationships and employing an "allover" compositional format, the works in the exhibition embrace a visual denial of open space and celebrate complexity and obsessive execution through dense mark making or intricate patterning and ornamentation. The works express a range of emotions, from a joyful generosity of spirit to an almost paranoiac claustrophobia. While denying open space can be interpreted as the denial of the unknown, or the mitigation of the fear of death, it is also a stance against minimalist reduction and an embrace of richness and complexity. Ironically, in the obsessive creation of some of these works, a Zen-like state of mind can be achieved.
Works in the exhibition range from Philip Taaffe's exuberant and playful ornamental field to Barbara Takenaga's and Sarah Walker's densely patterned, colorful drawings suggesting the cosmos. Lori Ellison, Kevin Hart, and Astrid Bowlby contribute intensely rendered, tightly drawn works in ink, while David Kinast and David Ambrose create expanses of organic, meandering lines akin to automatic writing. Aric Obrosey's labyrinthine, swirling lines are inspired by da Vinci's drawings of water, while Adam Fowler's obsessively layered collages of lines suggest an overgrown forest of vines or branches. Heidi Pollard and Don Voisine use a grid structure in their mark-making to very different effect: the former nearly obliterates any open space in her broad washes of ink, while the latter's repetitive, tight lines build forms of different weight in his composition. Maureen McQuillan creates a collapsing space with her photograms using layered drawings, while Emily Stern employs organic forms and vivid color in her boisterously crowded compositions.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; on Saturdays the hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays are open by appointment. The gallery will close for vacation in August, re-opening on September 4th with a solo exhibition of new work by Jim Dingilian.
Please contact: Valerie McKenzie
t 212.989.5467
f 212.989.5642
511 West 25th St.
New York, NY 10001
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