Articles

Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 14, Spring 2011. 
www.studiovisitmagazine.com/volume-fourteen

"21 Under 31," by Bonnie Gangelhoff, Southwest Art Magazine, September 2010.

Erica won honorable mention in the annual article put out by Southwest Art Magazine, featuring 21 emerging artists under the age of 31. Click here to open a pdf of the article.  

"Fresh Air"
by Arthur Whitman, Ithaca Times, Novemeber 2008 

For full article, please click here.

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...Pollock, also an oil painter, takes the street-sides of New York and San Francisco as her main subject. Intricate, puzzle-like arrangements of light and dark characterize her best work; here shadows aim to take on a life of there own, separate from the bodies and buildings that cast them.
Two small oil on panel pieces are exceptional. Alley Shadows, in particular, is a gem of machine-like precision. Although impastoed – like all of Pollock's work here – the brushwork is uncommonly quiet, rhyming with its containing forms rather than sticking out. Like an archetypal Pollock, it shows a passageway in sharp perspective, flanked by buildings - here abstract, anonymous and overgrown with purple shadows. The squarish Side Street might match Alley's impersonal perfection if not for its two focal cars, which seem messy and human in comparison to the towering buildings.
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All in all, these four women make a welcome addition to the SOAG's roster. Pollock's work is particularly so, with its melding of abstraction and naturalism and its distinctive subject matter - big city life for a populace that clings to scenes of unsullied nature.

Interviews

"Making Her Mark"- November 12th,  2008

Interview by Wylie Schwartz of the Ithaca Times 

"...the figures become secondary design elements giving way to an emphasis on shadow and light. The result is a heightened state of reflection, where the shadowy forms appear to express more about the inner world of the figures than the figures themselves."

Click here to download a pdf of the interview.

Out of Bounds Radio Interview - April 4th, 2010

Interview by Tish Pearlman, host of Out of Bounds, NPR 

Pollock's contemporary realist urban paintings are both haunting and poetic. In this delightful interview she talks about inspiration and the giant leap of faith that led her to the world of art.

Video

"CITY STREETS", a solo show of paintings by ERICA POLLOCK. from Stan Bowman on Vimeo.