Nancy Pollock has had an eclectic thirty-five year career in the visual arts that encompass fiber art and clothing design, graphic design, and ultimately mosaics. In the past five years she has produced a wide range of mosaic objects that draw on her life-long focus on the interplay of texture, color, assemblage, and function.

She has had successful shows in Stuart, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia and two exhibitions at the Gallery of the Performing Arts Center in Beaufort, South Carolina. Her work has appeared in museum shows in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Attleboro, Massachusetts, and New York City. In August of 2008 her sculptural piece, My Mother, Myself, was one of thirty-two pieces selected from more than 300 entries, to appear in the Third Annual Juried Sculpture Show at the Craven Arts Council and Gallery in New Bern, North Carolina.

MUSIC
Richard Roger's musical NO STRINGS was the first live Broadway musical I saw when it came to Kansas City when I was 16. My mosaic guitars, violin, and cello immediately became a series I had to call "no strings". The recognizable shapes and the interplay of surfaces make them a great medium for mosaics. I am fascinated by the concept of colors in music, where both the composers and conductors refer to color tones to describe music tonality or the interpretation of a musical passage. There is also an element of whimsy here, as in Wind and String.

FLIGHT
The bird, more than almost any other animal, let's me overdress it. The interplay between nature and my tiles gives me opportunities for opulence, elegance. The regal form of the bird's head cries out to me for jeweled crowns and headdresses. The representation of layers of feathers encourages a luminescence of mirrors and colored tiles. More than any other animal, the bird seems to pose, to show off its accoutrements. All my birds come from the pet department at Tiffany's.

PHONES
The first in this series of telephones was from my mother's house in Kansas City. She used the same rotary phone for 50 years, from the time her telephone number was six digits, Randolph 4135. When she died in 2007, I found myself drawn to this bequest as a memory of my childhood and of my mother's stubborn refusal to throw anything away that still worked. When I brought the phone back to my studio in South Carolina I realized that it had become an "icon". My children and grandchildren could never visualize dialing up a friend or imagine a party line without this rotary piece of history. I see these objects as graceful shapes that allow a sense of whimsy while still allowing a window on the past.

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York

Selected Exhibitions
2010 The Society of American Mosaic Artists, Mosaic Arts International (MAI), Chicago, IL
2009
Finding Beauty in a Broken World: In the Spirit of Frida Kahlo, Smith Farm Center, Washington, DC
Online Exhibtion, Chicago Artists Resource, Chicago, Illinois
South Carolina Palmetto Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, South Carolina
Home is Where the Heart Is: New York City, New York
Pieces, Solo Exhibition: The Galleries of Peachtree Center, Atlanta, GA

2008
2008 Annual Juried Sculpture Show, Craven Arts Council, New Bern, North Carolina
Out of the Blue: Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts
Flight of Fantasy, Solo Exhibition, Sailfish Harbor, Stuart, Florida
Flight of Fantasy, Solo Exhibition, Beaufort Performing Arts Center, Beaufort, South Carolina