Polly King

I have lived and worked in Nyack for twenty-seven years. Before that I lived and worked in New York City for twenty years.

Statement

I keep many works going at the same time in the painting studio and the drawing studio. In both the paintings and drawings layering is important, what shows from behind, and how the surface is built up. I really can’t predict how long the paintings will take. The drawings are more spontaneous and can be done in one or two sessions. I am searching for the "language" in them and that language is then carried over to the paintings on wood. The drawings are more from my sub-conscience. They are very linear, very craggy. I want the images to be oddly juxtaposed and odd in scale. By "odd" I mean a non-representational use of space, a space that exists all to itself in each painting or drawing. I want a kind of illogic or quirkiness, and I want them to be rough and hand-made. The drawings are usually mixed media. Although what I find in the drawings usually travels to the paintings, the oil stick from the paintings is moving back to the drawings. There is a kind of cross-pollination between the two. I think of the paintings and drawings as a kind of visual reference to a place I have been, a primitive response to that place.

In the past several years I have added collage to the works. It takes me out into the world in search of paper, photos and anything that can add something of a storyline or a literal reference. I want the imagery to be free-associative. Collage has enabled me to make a sharper line and commit to larger simpler shapes.

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 Polly King lives and works in Nyack,

NYSOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Garner Arts Center, Building 35, Ned Harris Gallery, Garnerville, N.Y.
2020 Archive Home, Nyack, N.Y.
2017 Rock, Paper, Scissors, Hopper House (curated by Joanne Howard)
2014  Gallery 66, Cold Spring, N.Y.
2013 Cuts and Assemblages, Gallery 66, Cold Spring, N.Y.
2007  Aromathyme Bistro, Ellenville N.Y.
2006 Center Gallery at Old Church Demarest, N.J.
2005  Process and Sensibility, Lab Gallery, New York, N.Y. (curated by Joel Carreiro)
2005  Biomorphs, Hopper House, Nyack N.Y. (curated by Michael Zansky)
2001   Art Sites Gallery, Greenport, N.Y.
2000   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1999   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1998   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1997   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1997   Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1993   Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1990   Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1987   Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1986   Hudson Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1984   Small Walls Gallery, New York, N.Y.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022   Improvisions - Creative Expressions, Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River, N.Y.
2021   Small Works, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, N.Y.
2020 Buster Levi, Cold Spring, N.Y. (guest artist)
2020   Faculty Show, Art School at Old Church, Demarest, N.J.
2019   Notebook Drawings, 56 Henry, N.Y. (curated by Joanne Greenbaum)
2018   Big Small Work, Brooklyn Art Cluster, N.Y. (curated by Joel Carriero)
2016   Drawing Lines Across Mediums, Site Brooklyn, N.Y. (curated by Olga Valle Tetkowski)
2016   Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, N.Y.
2016   Blue Rock Arts Auction, studio of Sean Scully
2015   Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, N.Y. (curated by Paula Madawick and Margery Theroux)
2015   Revealing Common Ground, Blue Hill Art And Cultural Center, N.Y. (curated by Barbara Sussman)
2014   Skylight Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2014   Garrison Art Center, Garrison, N.Y.
2014   Revealing Common Ground, Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River, N.Y.
2014   Salon 561, Art School at Old Church, Demarest, N.J.
2014   Gallery 66, Cold Spring, N.Y.
2013   Garner Arts Center Garnerville, N.Y.
2013   Skylight Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2013   Belskie Museum, Closter, N.J.
2013   Salon 561, Art School at Old Church, Demarest, N.J.
2013   Gallery 66, Cold Spring, N.Y.
2013   The Faculty of Art School at Old Church, Belskie Museum Closter, N.J.
2012   The Faculty of Art School at Old Church, Belskie Museum Closter, N.J. (faculty since 2011)
2012   Collage Logic, Hampden Gallery University of Massachusetts, Amherts, Mass.
2011   Collage Logic, Governors Island, New York, N.Y.
2009   Art and Democracy, Visual Artist's Guild New York, N.Y.
2009   Contemporary Confrontations, Katonah Museum(curated by Nan Rosenthal)
2008   GAGA Show, Haverstraw N.Y.
2008   Garnerville Art Center, Garnerville, N.Y.
2004   TWOO7 Art Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2004   7 Choose 7, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, N.Y.
2004   The Drawing Show, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, N.J. (curated by John Rosis)
2003   Bird Show, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, N.Y.
2003   Faculty Show, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, N.Y.
2002   The Birds, Invitational Art Exhibition, Old Church Cultural Center, Demarest, N.J.
2001   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass. (multiple shows)
2000   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1999   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1998   American Drawing Biennial (Curator: Ann Philbin), Muscarelle Museum of Art
1998   Small Matters of Great Importance (Juror: Vivien Raynor), Nyack, N.Y.
1998   Main St. Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1998   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1997   Main St. Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1997   The X Gallery, Nantucket, Mass.
1997   Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1994   Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1991   Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, Holland
1988   Leonarda di Mauro Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1988   The Elevator Show, New York, N.Y.
1988   Procter Art Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
1986   Hudson Gallery, "Form and Feeling," New York, N.Y.
1986   John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio
1985   John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio
1984   John Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio
1982   Procter Art Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS1998   Nantucket Enquirer-Mirror
1997   Nantucket Enquirer-Mirror
1988   Ricchot Magazine, illus.
1987   NYB, New York Berlin, review and illus.
1986   NYB, New York Berlin, review and illus.

TEACHING

2010-present   Art School at Old Church, Demarest, N.J.
2001-2005   Rockland Center for the Arts

EDUCATION

Bard College, B.A. Magna Cum Laude, 1974
School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.

State

ny

Country

United States