Charles Pollock : la peinture contenue dans son lieu

Exhibition at Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris, 16 January – 14 March 2026

A discreet but essential painter, Charles Pollock (1902–1988) spent his childhood between Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona and California. In 1922, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked at the Los Angeles Times while studying art at the Otis Art Institute. It was during this period that he developed a taste for the work of Mexican artists, particularly muralists such as Orozco and Rivera. He left Los Angeles in 1926 to continue his studies in New York with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League.

The artist is currently enjoying a rediscovery that is placing his work back at the heart of the narrative of modern art, no longer just as Jackson Pollock's older brother, but as one of the representatives of Colour Field painting.

This exhibition catalogue is devoted to works from the 1950s and 1960s, particularly the ‘Black and Gray’ and ‘Rome’ series, marking a new stage in the rediscovery in France of one of the major painters of post-war American abstraction, whose work, both sensitive and structured, dialogues with the major currents of American modernism.