'Ancestors/Descendants' explores world of child's play

Detail of "Ancestor 1" by Jason Pollen. (Courtesy photo)
Detail of "Ancestor 1" by Jason Pollen. (Courtesy photo)

The exhibition "Ancestors/Descendants," featuring recent work by Kansas City-based fiber artist Jason Pollen, runs Feb. 2 through March 23 at the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The artist will speak about his exhibition at 5:15 p.m. Feb. 2 in the gallery, located on the second floor of the Home Economics Building, 1650 N. 35th St.

"Ancestors/Descendants" allowed Pollen to reconnect with the exuberant world of children at play. With fervor, determination and curiosity, he fashions pigments, brushes, threads and twigs into compelling dimensional constructions. Pollen hopes the assemblages convey more than the sums of their parts. The colors, textures and shifting shadows are designed to guide the viewer on a journey through the labyrinthine world of the artist's imagination. Pollen intends his work to be thought-provoking and to communicate his fascination with and delight in child's play.

For 20 years, Pollen was on the faculty of the Kansas City Art Institute, where from 1997-2010 he was chair of its fiber department. As president of the Surface Design Association from 1993-2009, he helped grow both a national and international constituency of makers and an audience of enthusiasts for contemporary fiber and textile art.

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/t575