Artist Profile
2025 Joan Pollak - Animal Art
Medium: Ceramic / Sculpture
Description: One-of-a-kind whimsical animals created from hand-painted driftwood
2025 Joan Pollak - Animal Art
Medium: Ceramic / Sculpture
Description: One-of-a-kind whimsical animals created from hand-painted driftwood
32"H x 10"W x 6"D $395
32"W x 11"H x 6"D $375
26"H x 10"W x 22"D
40"H x 8"W x 3"D
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Joan Pollak, a Newtown, Connecticut artist whose work appears in local galleries and private collections, specializes in animal art created from locally sourced, hand-painted driftwood. She looks to each piece of wood to reveal the animal hidden within, then she helps it emerge to express its unique, often whimsical personality. The result: one-of-kind hanging and freestanding animal sculptures – ranging from those of the barnyard variety to the African veldt to the tip of Antarctic – that are preserved beneath layers of polyurethane for display both indoors and out.
Ms. Pollak studied graphic design at the University of Florida, where she earned a B.A. in Art, as well as an M.A. in English. Her work has been featured at several shows, art festivals, in online shops, as well as in private collections.
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Ms. Pollak lives in Newtown, Connecticut. She can be reached at 203-426-1581 or at jpromote@sbcglobal.net.
Her work ranges in price from approximately $30-$500 per piece.
| Shows: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL – Group Exhibition Grolier Inc., Danbury, CT – Group Exhibition Slater Museum, Norwich, CT – Group Exhibition Post University, Waterbury, CT – Solo Exhibition Bethel Arts Guild, Bethel, CT – Group Exhibit SCAN Art Show, Newtown, CT – Group Exhibition Fraser Woods School, Newtown, CT – Solo Exhibition |
Galerie Van Os, Newtown, CT – Solo Exhibition Cyrenius H. Booth Library, Newtown, CT – Solo Exhibition Wines and More! – Solo Exhibition Gallery 25 – Founding Member Litchfield Jazz Festival Ives Center Arts Festival – First Place, Sculpture Trumbull Arts Festival – First Place Spring Crafts at Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, NY Hen’s Nest, Washington Depot, CT |
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