{"id":940,"date":"2011-02-03T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2011-08-02T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T18:06:36","slug":"tiffany-pollock-room-at-gasser-grunert-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/tiffany-pollock-room-at-gasser-grunert-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiffany Pollack, “Room” at Gasser & Grunert, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tiffany Pollock, "Easter Loves Mango," 2010. Photograph courtesy of Gasser & Grunert, Inc., New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Tiffany Pollack\u2019s second solo show, baby care and flowers are subjects for dyed silk paintings in glorious washes of beautiful color. The former take shape as quasimodernist grids charting the waking\/napping routine of the artist\u2019s infant. Given that mother-child relationships in contemporary art tend more toward the curdled Robert Melee variety, Pollack\u2019s approach is surprisingly anxiety-free.<\/p>\n

Though the show includes eight such paintings, Pollack crystallizes the experience of all-encompassing emotional highs and lows in a single piece that registers periods of happiness followed by tears. Like Mierle Laderman Ukeles\u2019s memorable photos of her children\u2019s slow progress in getting dressed to go out during winter, Pollack\u2019s efforts will elicit groans of recognition, their wavy bands of color perfectly conveying the hazy disorientation of sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n

Unlike Ukeles, however, or Catherine Opie\u2019s gender-bending self-portrait while nursing, Pollack\u2019s pretty colors and near-total lack of critical remove suggest that she\u2019s enjoying her new role. Coupled with an eye-popping series of flower paintings in which poppies explode against a hot pink ground, bleeding-heart flowers dangle gorgeous buds, and the gathered stems of calla lilies melt together in a downward rush of paint, Pollack revels in the pleasures of fertility. These works recall Charles Ray\u2019s much-lauded room of flowers at the last Whitney Biennial, though they leave hanging the question of whether highly personal exploration, beauty and, in Pollack\u2019s case, pure joy are enough on their own.<\/p>\n

Originally published in Time Out New York, issue 798, January 27 – February 2, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Tiffany Pollack\u2019s second solo show, baby care and flowers are subjects for dyed silk paintings in glorious washes of beautiful color. The former take shape as quasimodernist grids charting the waking\/napping routine of the artist\u2019s infant. Given that mother-child relationships in contemporary art tend more toward the curdled Robert Melee variety, Pollack\u2019s approach is … <\/p>\n

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