Artist I-P > Gene Pollock (3)
Gene Pollock is a local artist originally from Jackson Mississippi. He was a fighter pilot in the Second World War. After the war he attended Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi and received a MBA from the University of Chicago, a BA from the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater and a MA from Los Angeles State College. After a varied career in theater and motion pictures Gene turned to teaching. At the University of Southern Mississippi he was the stage designer and instructor in Stagecraft. He later was the director of drama for Jefferson State Community College here in Birmingham. In 1974 Gene embarked on a career in painting. For the past ten years he has been working with acrylics as a medium and in nonrealistic images in which color, texture and shape are of more concern than a simple list of visual facts.
