Frank Poor
Providence, RI
sculpture
Dixie Inn, 2006, glass, wood, and paint, 71” x 42” x 30”, Lent by the Artist
Frank Poor’s sculptures speak of the memory and history embedded in architecture and graphic design. His works combine vintage lettering from Poor’s native rural Georgia with glass panes, vitrines, and architectural structures of homes and churches.
"For some time now I have been interested in how memory is conveyed and transfigured over time. No matter how much we want to trust memories, fixing their meaning is always inexact. It’s complicated by the fact that our experiences grow dimmer the farther they travel from their origins. The distinction between what we know and what we remember is blurry. Physical evidence doesn’t clear things up either. Photographs and other relics outlive their sources only to become sources of their own.
Making work, for me, is an active attempt at remembering. It’s a way of cobbling together visual fragments in hopes of arriving at new and useful meanings. In this recent work the surfaces seems to form a membrane between two worlds, one experienced and one remembered. In making these objects I hope to create a space where these two worlds can merge, if just for a moment." —Frank Poor
Please join the artist for a Gallery Talk on Saturday, June 24, 2006, at 3 pm.
