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While there, Pollock was doing cartoon-like posters for them. He started his college career in Vermont at Goddard College with “these guys that became Phish.” Pollock and his wife, who was his girlfriend at the time, attended Goddard along with three members of Phish, where the band was practicing in its infancy. He wanted to be an artist, he says, “but couldn’t figure it out.” Ultimately, he ended up with a computer science degree. When she brought home the material, Pollock picked it up and started carving and really liked it. His wife was a teacher and had to do a linoleum class.

Pollock accidentally fell into the use of linoleum as a printing medium. Pollock describes it as nothing short of a miracle, because you can grow marijuana yourself and you don’t have to rely on a pill being manufactured. Don’t kid yourself, these were done over the last 30 years by experts in horticulture that have created a very wide breadth of different types of plants that can do different things to the body.” They are the ones who actually created these amazing strains of marijuana that we have right now. “It does not have to do with marijuana growers. The fight right now has to do with the and pharmaceutical companies,” Pollock notes. “A lot of doctors would tell you - only under their breath, unfortunately - the aids of marijuana.

Cotton was needed to rebuild the South after the destructive Civil War and ever since then, marijuana kind of gets lumped into that.” “Industrial hemp was made illegal after the Civil War during Reconstruction, because industrial hemp was becoming competitive with cotton. “I have always felt that marijuana was essentially taken down by industrial hemp,” Pollock says. Hemp can create paper, oil and a lot of other different things that many folks in Washington would rather not compete against. He mentions it’s hard to be that way when raising a son, however, now that his son is now in college, it’s easier.Ī lot of Pollock’s earlier work had to do with the legalization of industrial hemp, which comes from the same family of plants as marijuana. Pollock has identified as “an unapologetic pothead” his whole life. I have always been a big proponent of it.” He says, “This work is more or less a ‘let’s get used to it.’ We’ve legalized in some states and we’re slowly legalizing in others. His passion for marijuana is what prompted the work on display at Galerie F. Pollock is deeply committed to the legalization of marijuana.

#Jim pollock printpress for free

A lot of music is put out for free if it’s not produced on vinyl. When MP3s came out in about 2001, there was a huge explosion in rock poster art, which we’re still living in the aftermath of today. I was there for opening night and got to sit with the man intimately associated with the famous jam band Phish.Ī lot of things boomed for the poster industry when digital music came out, because a lot of people wanted to see more imagery from their bands, Pollock says. This is your last week to check out renowned rock poster artist Jim Pollock’s new work High Phi at Galerie F (2381 N Milwaukee Ave.).