Jessie Pollock

Jessie Pollock’s richly-textured landscape paintings and luminous multi-layered images are romantic, sensuous and evocative. They suggest the passage of time and evoke nostalgia for times past. Intensely appealing for their tactile surfaces and radiant light, Pollock’s paintings transcend the reality of a specific time or place. Though modern in their materials and sensibility, these works send us back to a way of life now vanishing.

In recent years, Pollock has found inspiration in landscapes important to her, places in New Hampshire where she lives, in Florida where she has spent winters, and in Italy’s countryside, which she has visited. Vanishing Landscapes highlights a recent body of work that focuses on the region surrounding Mount Monadnock, the iconic peak not far from her studio and that has long attracted artists and writers since the nineteenth century and before.

Inspired by our changing climate and the mysterious energy in stones, Jessie’s Petrichor series is a new chapter in her homage to rural landscapes that are vanishing every day.

Originally a sculptor by training, Pollock incorporates intriguing objects on her painted surfaces: manmade hardware, like old pulleys and wires, as well as bleached bones, bird...

Graduated from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Residencies:
Ballinglen Foundation, Ireland
Monte Castello Di Vibio

Juried Shows

2015 AVA Gallery Bi-Annual Juried show for the States of NH and VT
2012 New Hampshire Art Association, Silver Center, Plymouth State University, NH
2005 New Hampshire Art Association, Currier Art Museum, Manchester, NH
Copley Society Summer Juried Show, Boston, MA
Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene, NH
2004 Southern Vermont Art Association, Manchester, VT
56th Annual Currier Exhibition of NHAA Artists, Currier Museum of Art
The Copley Artists Show, Boston, MA; 2002, 2003
2001 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Concord, NH
2001 New England Artists Trust Congress 6, Woodstock, VT
1999 Manifest: A Biennial Survey of Contemporary Visual Art, Boston, MA
Copley Society Spring-Summer Show, Boston, MA
American Gallery, New York, NY
Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene, NH (1999,'93,’02)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 99th Annual Juried Show
Sharon Arts Center, Sharon, NH (1997,'95,'94,'92,'82)
1994 Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT
Invitational Shows 2013 West Branch Gallery, Stowe, VT
2012 Putnam Gallery, Dublin School, Dublin, NH
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial, Cornish, NH
2011 Sharon Arts Center, Peterbo...