SOFA stories year by year
After a successful debut with Adam Blaue Gallery last year, Cheri Discenzo has decided to get the band back together. So below are this year’s Pollitt works that will proudly represent me. Come to the gallery space —Booth #1120— and see the works… Capricious, Bashert and, my newest piece, What’s Math Got To Do With …
A seamless opportunity… Cheri Discenzo, Gallery Director of Adam Blaue Gallery, Cleveland, offered me a seamless opportunity to show Pollitt glass sculptures at SOFA Chicago 2016. I’m delighted that I accepted her invitation. The show was a kick off to Cheri’s new gallery venture and our ongoing working relationship. My newest piece, Capricious, was just …
Pollitt celebrates a new gallery partnership with Adam Blaue Gallery, Cleveland, in time for SOFA CHICAGO at Navy Pier, Nov 3 – 6. New work will be featured. (Imagine shows “Red Shift.”)
Opening night tonight, November 6, and for the next three days, the Thomas Riley Galleries will exhibit five of my sculptures, 4 in cast glass and 1 in wood – Enigma, Midnight Moves, Red Shift, Ode to Morph, and Morph VI in black cherry wood. This is the 9th consecutive year my work has been represented at SOFA and the second time my two styles of sculpture will be exhibited in the same year.
If you’re in Chicago between Nov 6 thru 9th, please join me at SOFA Chicago at Navy Pier. I’ll be in the Thomas R. Riley exhibit space with five of my sculptures. And on Saturday, the 8th, at 1 pm, I’ll be giving a lecture about my work and artistic journey from wood to glass sculpture.
My wood art first appeared at SOFA Chicago 2006 represented by two galleries and in a curated special exhibit entitled The Presence of Absence. My glass sculptures were first represented at SOFA Chicago 2011. This year I’m beyond honored to be telling my “transition” story as part of the SOFA Chicago 2014 Lecture Series.
It never fails. The highlight of my year is always SOFA. This year did not disappoint. The energy, magnitude and quality of the work at SOFA Chicago was once again awe-inspiring. Let me show and tell you about it.
With SOFA Chicago 2013 opening on October 31 at Navy Pier, it will really be eight straight years that my work has been represented there. First my wood art, now my glass sculptures. What an honor and privilege. Hope to see you there to help me celebrate!
There is something so very special about SOFA Chicago. The feeling I get walking in on Opening Night is pure magic. So much incredible talent in one place. For me, being a participating artist feels like walking on the field at the Super Bowl. This is as good as it gets. I feel so very …
Two years ago at SOFA Chicago 2009, I was enticed into the kiln cast glass sculpture world by a glass collector who “saw” my wood sculptures in a medium totally unknown to me at the time. I call it my “cross-over moment.” This year at SOFA Chicago both my glass sculptures and wood art are represented.
2010 SOFA Chicago. Our fifth consecutive year with del Mano The excitement, honor and privilege never wane. Once again I was very pleased to be invited by del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, to exhibit works with them at SOFA Chicago 2010. Gaye and I had our usual good time…can you tell? Adding to the festivities on …
SOFA WEST 2010 exhibit in Santa Fe, NM – our home town! It was again great fun and a privilege to be part of del Mano Gallery’s SOFA WEST exhibit this second year that the event has been staged in Santa Fe. While many people relate Santa Fe with Western-style art, in fact, contemporary art …
An unexpected encounter at SOFA Chicago 2009 ultimately leads to my cross-over from wood art to sculptural glass On Saturday night in Chicago, a glass collector “crossed over” and purchased his first wood sculpture. I’m honored that my cedar sculpture, First Born, was his choice. A very unexpected outcome was that within two months, I, …
This year’s events will include not only SOFA CHICAGO 2009 in early November, but we’ve just participated in a new SOFA venue premiering in my own home town of Santa Fe in June. What an incredible honor to be included among the finest artists, chosen by leading galleries in the world, for these prestigious, quintessential …
Five of my sculptures were presented at SOFA Chicago 2008 this year by del Mano Gallery. This is the third consecutive year Jan Peters and Ray Leier invited me to exhibit my wood art with them. It was as exciting this year as the first!
