Highlandtown Gallery
Celebrating the Art & Artists of Maryland
248 S. Conkling Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Featured Artist: Jim Pollock
"Art For the Rust of Us"
Artist Jim Pollock enjoyed the woods as a child and grew up carving wood thanks to encouragement from three high school art teachers. His childhood wish of becoming an archaeologist merged with his dream of being an artist as he began to create art pieces from piles of rusty trash unearthed at the point of disintegration. Preserving the recent past in this way, Jim now leaves his artifacts to a future audience for interpretation.
Now fully immersed in his mixed media and bronze art practice, Jim opens his 34th Street home studio in Hampden’s famous street of lights each Christmas season. He’s well known for his “hubcap tree” display.
Jim is a 1989 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He’s honed his skills over the past 30 years, saying “I see my age and experience in my work more now than ever before.“
He thoroughly enjoys his process of hunting for materials, finding and repurposing objects found in rivers, creeks as well as flea markets, and junkyards that he transforms into art.
Jim is endlessly inspired to create new work. It’s often a full circle moment for Jim, starting again where it all began, fixing his broken toys.
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