Pollux

Born to a Welsh father and a Canarian mother in the East Riding of Yorkshire, but raised in Culver City, California, Pollux (né Paul Morris) practices his art amidst a swirling and complex confluence of cultures. He received a BA in history and Latin from UCLA (2001), a Master\'s in history from Brown University (2002), and an AS in Graphic Design from the Art Institute (2011). Pollux creates illustrations that capture the rhythms and movements of musicians and instruments: instrument and player become one, a sort of musical deity or spirit composed of lines, colors, and shapes. He creates a unique little band or mini-orchestra with each illustration, with various wind, string, and percussion instruments complementing each together. His brush joins seemingly irreconcilable objects together to create visually arresting, and sometimes jarring, images. Why does a fox fly upside down with a bird in its mouth in The Gift of Flight? Why do a buffalo and baby gaze at an asteroid in Tisserand\'s Babes? Pollux’s September 7, 2013 solo exhibition “30 Birds” featured a collection of avian portraits: birds of various sizes and species are depicted with some feature of human life or human society. His solo show \"Animals of the 80s\" on March 14, 2015 depicted a parallel universe in which animals of various types and stripes experience their own fluorescent-flavored decade that mirrors human life during the 1980s.