Polly M. Law is a bricoleur, mythologenist, and printmaker living and working in the Rondout Valley of New York State. Her current work techniques run from paste-paint cut-paper collages; to monoprints, lino-cut, and silkscreen prints, all working within a range of matrices and themes, reiterating, and amplifying them in conversation. Her themes include narrative, myth, nature, and a powerful eye.
She holds the demands of craft and art in equal regard, taking joy from both as they work together in her pieces; weaving the craft of preparation and materials-making with the art of the originating vision. Her style and technique have gone beyond the academy into very idiosyncratic expression, drawing heavily on folk techniques, and a raucous approach to color and texture.
Her work has been influenced by the luscious patterns, textures and graphic forms of Eyvind Earle and Alice & Martin Provensen; as well as British artists Edward Bawden, Mark Hearld, and Clive Hicks-Jenkins. She also never met a split-fountain she didn’t like. Her work is in many private collections, has appeared in many exhibitions throughout the world, and she is represented by Albert Shahinian Fine Art, in Rhinebeck, NY.
She has an abiding interest in semiotics, the symbolism inherent in everyday objects; and an abiding and futile anxiety about entropy.
