Silk Artist : Vivien Pollack

June 2006

Artist Statement

I have over twenty-five years in the textile design field with fifteen years of silk painting experience. My designs have been sold to major manufactures. I also have been exhibiting my silk paintings in galleries and museums.

My silk paintings �Table Set For One� won honorable mention at the Hecksher Museum and was featured in the NY Times Art Review. I have been teaching silk painting at the Long Island Art League for the past 5 years and hold a degree in Textile Design from the fashion Institute of Technology and have also studied at Parson�s School of Design in NYC.

I really enjoy silk painting, as it is a wonderful form of expression. I love working with the dyes, my favorites are steam set dyes because of the intensity and shades of colors.

The paintings I have selected for this web site are from memories or places I have been or scenes I have seen. Sometimes I paint on untreated silk using gutta lines to hold the dyes within certain areas. I also have treated silk with a mixture of gutta and turpenoid to stop the dyes from running to paint in details or paint in a watercolor effect.

Vivien Pollack

USA

email: VLPdesign@yahoo.com

website: http://mysite.verizon.net/vlpdesign/