Curator Junco Pollack

Kinhin -Walking Meditation #2

2006-2010

3' x 4'

Metallic stitches on fabric collage

Kinhin -Walking Meditation #4

2006-2010

3' x 4'

Metallic stitches on fabric collage

“My art form takes its shape in fabric, light and shadow. My works reflect characteristics of Eastern ink-and-brush painting and Western abstraction. In the studio I reference nature and science through refining perception and applied technology. New technology becomes old in time, replaced by a newer one. Old and new, renewed and recycled all has meaning if applied in the meaningful way, creating work that reflects the spirit of time. Shibori is one traditional dye technology whose principal concept provides underlying three-dimensional shaping, texturing and patterning in my work, along with digital printing and thermoplastic technologies enabling new approach in textile printing.”
 

Junco Pollack is an Associate Professor of Textiles at the Welch School of Art and Design at GSU. Ms. Pollack holds a MFA in Textile Design from RIT1991.  She fuses the East and the West in her art textile work, reflecting her deep appreciation for the Art of Zen, Minimalism, and American Abstract Expression. She has exhibited her work internationally in major cities in 18 countries around the globe, most recently, in the Spirited Calligraphy International Exhibition at the National Calligraphy Museum in Seoul, Korea, Her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Art and Design, New York and numerous corporate collections in the USA, Japan and Europe.  Ms. Pollack coordinated in 2000 a public lecture and Zen calligraphy demonstration by Zen master Roshi Keido Fukushima, Abbot of Tofuku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, and the Tale of Genji Millennium Lecture: Color, Design, and Ritual in the Heian Court (794-1185) of Japan by Mr. Sachio Yoshioka through the Asian Studies Center of Georgia State University in conjunction with the AAS Annual Conference in Atlanta in 2008.  

Artist Website www.juncosatopollack.com