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70 x 9 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (177.8 x 24.4 x 24.4 cm)
(Inventory #33768)
Church steeples, columns, and obelisks have always been used as markers of power and prestige. In small towns with low-built environments these vertical (yes, phallic) interruptions of the landscape tend to take on increased significance. In these new column pieces, I am trying to re-present the power of these objects by decontextualizing their iconic stature and imposing the lived and decaying surfaces onto them.
Frank Poor
The curator Lia Newman states, “distance, both in regard to time and physical location, plays an important role in Frank Poor’s creative process. He allows himself space from the site and the images before embarking on new work. Such distance often alters one’s understanding of reality … It is through the juxtaposition – and at times the dislocation – of image and form that Poor initiates a dialogue about memory; he notes that ‘memory exists somewhere between artifact and inventory.’ It is in this liminal space where artists such as Poor can create works that, though deeply personal and specific, become meaningful for a wider audience.”
For Poor’s newest body of work, a series of “columns,” he has started with photographs of columns he has viewed on numerous trips home to Georgia and some surrounding areas. He has taken those photos, built/turned/carved/assembled ‘columns’ based on the images in his photos and then selectively/incompletely applied enlarged versions of the photos to the sculptures/columns. Each column is both visible as a sculpture, a column (either over or under-sized)and as a support (no longer for architecture but) for imagery. The original place is pointed towards in the photos and yet the incomplete application of the photos to the sculptures point towards the distance between the original location and the current display. As always, Poor both questions and respects both situations.
In these pieces, the machined precision of the fabricated forms coexists with the messy over enlarged images taken from the actual site. The sculptures are meant to embody the internal contradiction of the idea of things and the things themselves.
Frank Poor
Poor lives and works in Rhode Island. He has taught since he earned his MFA from RISD in 1992. Recent solo exhibitions of his works have been at the Grimshaw – Gudewicz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College, Bristol, RI, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, Van Every Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, Artspace, Raleigh, NC, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, Welch Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA and the CNN Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA. He won merit fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts in 2013 and 2016.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
HAIMAZ, HEIMR, HJEM, HEEM, HĀM, HOME, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 2023.
MORE, Julian Opie, Frank Poor and Fred Wilson, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA 2022.
FRAGILE, works by Robert Barry, Jenny Holtzer, Louise Lawler, Frank Poor and Haim Steinbach, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA, 2020.
FACING GRAIN, works by Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Frank Poor, and Analia Saban, Krakow Witkin Gallery. Boston, MA, 2019.
DOWNSIZED: Small-Scaled Sculpture by Contemporary Artists, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 10/03/18 – 1/27/19.
MEMORY OF PLACE, Frank Poor and Thomas Doyle, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, 2017
THE NEWEST ROMANTICS, New Arts Center, Newton, MA. 2017.
CONSTRUCTING PLACE, Elaine Alibrandi and Frank Poor, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA, 2016.
I AM AN IMPORTANT GIANT, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2016.
SIOBHAN LANDRY and FRANK POOR, Pratt MWP College of Art and Design Gallery, Utica, NY, 2015.
AXIS MUNDI, Hunt – Cavanaugh Gallery, Providence College, Providence, RI, 2015
INTERIORS, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, 2013.
WISH YOU WERE HERE, Drift Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, 2013.
RHODE ISLAND STATE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS GRANT EXHIBITION, Jamestown Center for the Arts, Jamestown, RI, 2013
IN/OUT: FRANK POOR, DEBORAH ASCHEIM AND KRISTY DEETZ, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, 2011.
RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE FACULTY EXHIBITION, Bannister Gallery, Providence, RI, 2007.
DECORDOVA ANNUAL EXHIBITION, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2006.
3-D RHODE ISLAND, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, 2004.
RISD FIRST TRIENNIAL SCULPTURE EXHIBITION, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, 2002.
RISD GRADUATE ALUMNI SHOW, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI, 2001.
SUMMER GROUP SHOW, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, 1999.
SCULPTURE GROUP SHOW, Helm House Gallery, Kingston, RI, 1998.
FIGURING MEMORY, Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI, 1997.
EXPO 16, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY, 1997.
FIRST NATIONAL, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI, 1996.
RISD SUMMER FACULTY EXHIBITION, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, 1993-1996.
MFA THESIS EXHIBITION, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, 1992.
RETHINKING THE SACRED IMAGE, New Visions Gallery of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA, 1990.
ANN FRISTOE AND FRANK POOR, Municipal Art Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1989.
TODAY AND TOMORROW, A Review and Preview of Contemporary Cast Iron, Sloss National Monument, Birmingham, AL, 1989.
RESEARCH INTO SOUTHERN COMFORT, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, 1989.
STATE OF THE ARTS: GEORGIA, New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, 1988.
Press
Art New England, Liz Lee, Studio Visit – Frank Poor, November/December 2017.
Art New England, Sarah Baker, Review of The Newest Romantics, at the New Art Center, Newton, MA, 2017
Take Magazine, Poornima Apte, Southern Comfort, June 8, 2017.
Boston Globe, Cate McQuad, Home is Where the Art is. Review of Frank Poor at Rafius Fane Gallery, May 31, 2016.
Providence Phoenix, Greg Cook; A Visionary Streak, review of Rhode Island College Faculty Exhibition, September 26, 2013.
Providence Journal, Bill Van Siclen; Review of Going Home at the Newport Art Museum, October 20, 2011.
Newport Mercury, Daniel Combs; Spirits in a Material World, Review of Going Home at the Newport Art Museum, October 7, 2011.
Atlanta Journal, Catherine Fox; Review of Mapping Memory at the Welch Gallery, July 22, 2011.
Sculpture Magazine, Review of the DeCordova Annual at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, March 2007.
Boston Phoenix, Review of the DeCordova Annual, May 19, 2006.
Artscope, Leon Nigrosh; Review of the DeCordova Annual, July/August issue 2006.
The DeCordova Annual 2006, Nick Capasso, Exhibition Catalog; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.
Boston Globe, Review of the DeCordova Annual, May 5, 2006.
Providence Journal, Review, November 28, 2004.
New York Times, Review of EXPO 16 at B.F. Spoke Gallery, March 16, 1997.
Atlanta Journal, Review of Rethinking the Sacred Image at New Visions Gallery, may 17, 1990.
Art Papers, Jerry Cullum; Review of Rethinking the Sacred Image at New Visions Gallery, September/October issue, 1990.
Today and Tomorrow, a Review and Preview of Contemporary Cast Iron; Exhibition Catalog, Sloss National Monument, Birmingham, AL 1989.
Atlanta Journal, Review of Research into Southern Comfort at Nexus Contemporary Art Center, November 24, 1989.
Art Papers, Review of Sculpture; On the Wall/Off the Floor at new Visions Gallery, June/July issue, 1988.
State of the Arts; Georgia, Exhibition Catalog; New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, 1988.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
RELICS, 3-S Artspace, Portsmouth, NH, 2023.
RISIDUUM, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, 2018.
FROM THE ROAD, Sculpture and Prints, Anna Maria College, Worcester, MA, 2017
MINED AND MEASURED, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, 2017
FRANK POOR at Rafius Fane Gallery, Boston, MA, 2016
HOME, Van Vessem Gallery, Tiverton, RI 2015
TIME AND PLACE, Grimshaw – Gudewitz Art Gallery, Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA, 2015
DISPLACED, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, 2015.
CAST SHADOWS, Van Every Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 2013
TRACES, Artspace, Raleigh, NC 2012.
GOING HOME, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI, 2011.
MAPPING MEMORY, Welch Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2011.
ENON CEMETERY PROJECT, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, 2009.
FRANK POOR: SHADOWS AND SIGNS, Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, 2007
TIME, MEMORY AND THE POETIC IMPULSE, Hamilton Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI 2005
FRANK POOR: FIVE NEW WORKS, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, 1989.
NEW SCULPTURE: FRANK POOR, Ariel Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1988
RECENT WORK: FRANK POOR, CNN Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 1987
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