Tate Liverpool: Exhibition 30 June – 18 October 2015 Jackson Pollock Yellow Islands 1952 Oil on canvas support: 1435 x 1854 mm Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery (purchased out of funds provided by Mr and Mrs H.J. Heinz II and H.J. Heinz Co. Ltd) 1961 © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation ARS, NY and DACS, London 2014 View the main page for this artwork Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) is widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative American artists of the twentieth century. Pollock famously pioneered action painting , a process that saw him drip paint on canvases resting on the studio floor. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots presents the first exhibition in more than three decades of Pollock’s paintings made between 1951 and 1953, shedding light on a less well known but extremely influential part of his practice and departure from his signature technique. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots brings together the most significant showing of this widely debated body of