Gallery 2112 is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Maryanne Pollock’s latest paintings titled Rebirth the Earth, all completed during the pandemic. Featured in this exhibition are five abstract paintings, three botanical works on paper, and more than 18 abstract mixed-media works on paper culled from kinesis of travel from her studios in NYC and DC. Showing, October 1 - November 14, 2001.
The nature paintings are derived from plein air landscapes of Central and Riverside Parks, and the US Botanical Gardens, continuing her interest in Divine Geometry. This pandemic proved Olmstead, the 19th century Central Park landscape architect, a visionary. Central Park, which serves as the lungs of NYC, and other public spaces like the US capitol grounds, became sanctuaries to reimagine the function of nature to remediate our bodies, minds, souls, and the environment.
Favorite artists Robert Rauschenberg and Russian suprematist Malevich, saw white as a color of potential. However, Pollock sees the void of black as the origin of all life, the fertile soil. Metallic totems and luminous explosions emerge dramatically from the carbon black backgrounds almost like supernovas, or new cosmic energies.
The 4’x4’ featured painting of this solo exhibition, Rebirth the Earth, began as an emotional reaction to the US response to Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria. Later, through her practice of transcendental meditation, layers of buoyant silver and blue cells, like mini earths appeared.
A mentor of Pollock’s, abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart said, “Art transcends, transforms nature, creates a nature beyond nature.” Pollock’s paintings are inner landscapes, derived from the practice of transcendental meditation, where individual cells of living energy become nascent to the visible world. It’s the energy of the potential of all things that keeps us connected—the silver thread of vibrancy.
BIOGRAPHY
Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She continued studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran College of Art and Design and American University.
She represented the United States in a contextual exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale, at the Arts in Embassies Program in Egypt, and had solo exhibitions in Paris, Glasgow, Basel, and Cairo. Permanent collections include Marriott Marquis DC, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Qatar Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Recent exhibitions include Delaware Contemporary Museum and the McLean Project for the Arts and a National competition curated by Jennifer Farrell, curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and currently a Benefit Exhibition in Philadelphia with Bridgette Mayer Gallery.