About

b. 1986, HK.

Shannon Pollak

A Los Angeles based artist

I am a multi media artist working dominantly with ceramic and recycled materials to create pieces that play with ideas of childhood and its early connections with gender identity, sexuality, and its manifestation of spiritual entities. I strive to bridge domestic and earthly visual elements with imagery that is fantastical, using my practice as a means to reminisce and reconnect to earlier states of consciousness that know fewer bounds between the earth and the spirits that infuse it. Very often playing with transforming one material to another; making styrofoam look like wood and stone, or ceramic to look like fabric, my pieces fluctuate between between being functional, decorative, or both. Sometimes they're vessels, clocks, or fountains. However they function, my goal is to have them speak to the inner playful and non-binary child, who can stick their hand in the ground and feel the simple and excited buzzing of worms.

As a part time freelance prop fabricator for TV/Film I inherit a lot of overflow materials that would otherwise be thrown away. Resourcing these materials to other artists and myself, I have been able to keep a steady practice and collaborate with my peers through Los Angeles. I am blessed by an enriched and creative community that is frequently hosting events, workshops, and art markets of which i actively take part in to support myself and to share my work.