Pollard's exhibition will consist of more than 50 collages that date from 1990 through 2007. Using elements from 1950's -70's era magazines, pamphlets and obscure pictoral paperbacks as his primary tools, he portrays allegorical personas and hallucinogenic-type environments to create small, almost random synapses of unmistakable compositions with sardonic titles, each serving as a story unto itself. The Artist's media utilizes the archetypes of the working class, becoming pawn deities and martyrs found within the strata of near fantasy religion and the collective unconscious. Most of these works were used as album art for Pollard's own music releases throughout the same time period.

Do The Collage is being hosted by two close friends of Pollard: Visual Artist Todd DiCiurcio and Actor Michael Imperioli, who, along with his wife Victoria, are the co-Artistic Directors of Studio Dante.

Pollard is the former leader of indie rock legends Guided By Voices and at present, solo recording artist. One of Spin Magazine's "Top 50 Rock & Roll Front Men of All-Time," he is a prolific songwriter, and a gifted visual artist, working exclusively in the medium of collage. Pollard has created the art featured on a majority of the Guided By Voices records and countless other Pollard-related releases. The cover collage for 1997's Guided By Voices record "Mag Earwhig" was displayed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. His art will be the subject of a 2008 Fantagraphic Books release, "Town of Mirrors: The Reassembled Imagery of Robert Pollard."

Under the artistic leadership of Michael & Victoria Imperioli, Studio Dante is a not-for-profit, off-broadway theatre conceived and built to house progressive new plays in a setting inspired by the grand architecture and design of traditional 19th Century venues. Studio Dante is located at 257 West 29th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenue) in Manhattan. Opening night is Sunday, December 9th from 6 to 10pm and the exhibit will continue thru Monday, December 10th from 12 noon to 10pm.

For more details on "Do The Collage" please contact Rich Turiel at 773-580-0479 or rnt65@yahoo.com.