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Welcome to Junco Sato Pollack

JUNCO SATO POLLACK  is a maker of light-reflective fabric sculpture that floats in the space. Junco’s work is exhibited internationally and housed in the permanent collections of museums, corporate workspaces and private homes.

 

The work’s format is hanging scroll, referencing serendipitous articulation characteristic of Eastern ink-and-brush painting and meditative calm. The work’s intrinsic kinetic quality is sensuous, rigid,yet yielding, and expressive of both Eastern and Western aesthetics.

 

Native of Japan, Junco began her textile study with a silk master weaver in Kyoto, Japan. During 80s, her work involved three-dimensional silk fabric sculpture in which she manufactured, wove, and dyed silk into three-dimensional forms. Currently she works with metallic and micro-polyester with heat transfer and lamination technology through which dyes are sublimated by heat into the molecular structure of the fabric, simultaneously coloring and texturing the surface.

 

Since 2008, Junco began work with wild kudzu vines from harvest to woven, and urushi lacquered, table settings as well as handmade paper sculptures.

WORKS AND PRESS

  • "Since the middle decades of the twentieth century, artists and craftspeople have experimented with traditional craft materials and techniques to achieve their artistic ends. Exploring abstract ideas or subject matter such as the human figure, they create highly individualistic works that go beyond function. These works of art stand outside of the traditional craft heritage but are still intimately linked to this legacy by materials and techniques. Frequently, the content of the work -its subject, theme, or message- is revealed directly through the materials and techniques employed, creating a symbolic relationship between meaning and materials, between idea and realization. Craft in these instances assumes its true role as process -as a skilled and knowledgeable mode of action- rather than product. Craft materials and techniques are an irresistible conduit for creative self-expression in works of art that engage and provoke the viewer visually and intellectually."

    From: Defining Craft: Collecting for the New Millennium, American Craft Museum 2000

    - David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator, American Craft Museum

  • "Objects that address our dual needs for beauty and usefulness have been created by craftspeople since the dawn of human culture. Today, skilled practitioners employing material that range from the precious to the commonplace are confirming the archetypal definition of craft by honoring the skill of the had and celebrating beauty in both form and function. Typically working alone or in small workshops, these creative individuals generate seeminglyunlimited variations in form, structure, and pattern. The articles of use and beauty that they produce are personal signatures that remind us of our common need to surround ourselves with objects that give us visual, tactile, functional, and aesthetic satisfaction."

    From: Defining Craft: Collecting for the New Millennium, American Craft Museum 2000

    - David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator, American Craft Museum

  • "The processes Chosen characteristically produce works with mesmerizing pattern, layering, rhythm, and detail. The work is beautiful to view but it also comes with great meaning and personal significance to each artist. Junco Sato Pollack tells us point blank in her statement, 'Fabric means more than utility to me.' It is important to understand that viewing and experiencing the work is a journey of thought."

    From: Meditations: Japanese fiber Traditions Today, September-November 2000

    K. Johnson Bowels, Longwood Center for Visual Arts

IN THE PRESS