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 Photo by Jason Kaczorowski
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Biography
Jim Pollock is an internationally renown artist best known for his bold and vibrant linoleum prints. Little did he realize that the pen and ink flyers he drew in the late 1980s for the then unknown University of Vermont band Phish was the beginning of a creative relationship that would span two decades. As Phish toured relentlessly, building a massive following, they continued to embrace Jim's uniquely organic imagery for flyers, t-shirts, cd covers, limited edition prints and tour posters. 
Jim's first limited edition poster for Phish was in 1995. The now-famous Halloween '95 image was silkscreened in glow-in-the-dark ink from hand separations Jim drew. From then on Jim worked almost exclusively on linoleum blocks.
Jim got into linoleum printing by accident, he told Paul Grushkin & Dennis King, authors of the recently published book, Art Of Modern Rock. "My wife was teaching a class, 'Methods of Teaching Art,' for her education degree, and she had to do a linoleum print. I thought it looked fun, and so I picked up an extra block to cut, and I really have not stopped since." By 1999, Jim was carving 12" x 24" blocks and printing with an ancient iron crank-wheel bookbinding handpress (as illustrated in his 'Phirst' print, done for his September 6 - October 7, 2002 gallery show at Sanctuary Artsite in Burlington Vermont). To print a poster this large Jim was required to crank the pressure plate down four times. Multiply that by the number in a run (sometimes up to 600) and then by the number of colors (one plate per color) and you end up with quite a labor-intensive process. Jim's most recent work has been very personal, dealing with environmental and social-protest themes. He prefers to print on hemp paper and is committed to the re-legalization of hemp as a valuable farm commodity. He has also begun to print larger images using a Heidelberg letterpress machine. |
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