In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, Bruce Pollock produced small, heavily-worked, painted and sanded salvaged wood structures, which, though abstract, reflected his interest in the endless variations of Philadelphia row home architecture. Eventually he turned to painting, first in acrylic and then in oil, gradually refining his work to embrace organic mathematical systems, such as the Fibonacci Series and Spirals, which relate to recurring designs and patterns found in nature. His meticulously articulated canvases are at once vertiginously complex and instantly appealing as intricate and strangely familiar archetypes. Pollock explains the unraveling “fields of energy” that inform his lyrical revision of optical painting in terms of methods and layers of observation: “When you look at nature, it doesn’t reveal itself immediately. The more you look, the more that you see. … It just keeps opening up in different ways. I work hard at trying to make a painting do that.”

Pollock’s paintings have been exhibited nationally, including one-person shows at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, New York; Cavin Morris Gallery, New York; and Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago. His work can also be viewed in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

Education
1977-78 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1976-77 Temple University Abroad, Rome, Italy
1973-76 BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1971-72 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Solo Shows

2009

• Figure Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008

• Circling WestSanta Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA
• LevityDelaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington DE

2006

• ad infinitumFleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia PA

2004

• Materializing Light: New Paintings and DrawingsFleisher/Ollman Gallery Philadelphia, PA

2001

• Framing the InfiniteFleisher/Ollman Gallery Philadelphia, PA

1990

• Morris GalleryPennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA
• Design Arts GalleryNesbitt College of Design Arts
• Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA

1986

• Cavin Morris Inc.New York, NY

1984

• Laurence Miller GalleryNew York, NY
• Jeffrey Fuller Fine ArtPhiladelphia, PA

1983

• Florence Wilcox GallerySwarthmore College Swarthmore, PA

1982

• Alan Stone GalleryNew York, NY
• Karen Lennox GalleryChicago, IL
• Jeffrey Fuller Fine ArtPhiladelphia, PA

1981

• Dome Room GalleryNew Educational Center for the Arts New Haven, CT

Group Shows

2008

• GeoMetrics Gallery 128, New York, NY
• Broad Shoulders & Brotherly Love Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL
• Abstract Invitational Delaware County Community College, Media, PA
• Line & Time & SpaceGallery Joe, Philadelphia PA
• Cave PaintingsFleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadlephia PA

2007

• MicroBIOPHILIAHicks Art Center, Newtown PA

2006

• Inter_logicPearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

2005

• A Closer LookArcadia University Art Gallery Glenside, PA
• Building ReferencesUniversity of the Arts Philadelphia, PA

2004

• Works on Paper 2004Arcadia University Art Gallery Glenside, PA
• CR Ettinger Studio Recent EditionsUniversity of the Arts Philadelphia, PA

2003

• From That to This: Artists' InspirationsNexus Gallery Philadelphia, PA

2002

• Transcendent and UnrepentantRosenwald-Wolf Gallery University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA

1999

• Brushes with Spirituality: Ethereal PaintingsThe Noyes Museum of Art Oceanville, NJ
• ContemplationAbington Art Center Jenkintown, PA
• Drawing RulesGallery Joe Philadelphia, PA

1998

• Abstract StrategiesPhiladelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia, PA
• Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating Fleisher Challenge at TwentyPhiladelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)

1997

• Art in City HallCity Hall Philadelphia, PA
• Rome Selections: 30 Years of Tyler School of Art Temple/Rome ProgramTemple University Gallery Philadelphia, PA

1996

• Biennial 1996Delaware Art Museum Wilmington, DE

1995

• Artists of Northern LibertiesPaley Design Center Philadelphia, PA

1994

• Prison Sentences: The Prison Site/The Prison as SubjectMoore College of Art Philadelphia, PA
• Alexander Anufriev, Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz, Vladimir Kandelaki, Bruce PollockPhiladelphia Art Aliiance Philadelphia, PA
• Concerning the Spiritual in ArtChester Springs Studio Chester Springs, PA

1993

• Ritual and Response Abstract PaintingHicks Art Center Newtown, PA

1991

• On the Moon: A Collaboration Installation, Bruce Pollock and Richard TorchiaScience Center Drexel University Philadelphia, PA

1990

• Incohate ForcesCavin Morris Inc. New York, NY
• Contemporary Philadelphia ArtistsPhiladelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA

1989

• Landscapes of ThoughtMomenta Gallery Philadelphia, PA
• Art of State: PennsylvaniaState Museum of Pennsylvania Harrisburg, PA
• Evening SkiesNoyes Museum

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