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