Peter Solomon Frank (born 1950, New York) is an American

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, curator, and poet who lives and works in Los Angeles. Frank is known for curating shows at the

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in the 1970s and 1980s. He has worked curatorially for

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, the

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, and many other national and international venues.

Early life

Frank was born in New York to Reuven Frank, who was an Emmy Award-winning President of

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and Bernice Frank, née Kaplow, a music librarian at the Tenafly Public Library. He received his B.A. and M.A. in art history from

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Work

Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has written many monographs and catalogs for one person and group exhibitions. In his early career he was somewhat associated with the

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movement in New York. He has also organized many theme and survey shows for placement at institutions throughout the world, taught at colleges and universities and lectured in North America and Europe. He was the Senior Curator at the Riverside Art Museum and an

for ''Angeleno'' magazine. He is a frequent contributor to ''

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, Art in America,

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,'' and ''Whitehot Magazine''. Until July 9, 2008
he was
a long-time critic for ''

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''. He was a past editor of ''Visions Art Quarterly'' and was an art critic for ''

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'' and '' The SoHo Weekly News'' in New York.

Publications

* Frank, Peter: "Plural Isms: California Art and Artists of the Mid- to Late 1970s". ''Under the Big Black Sun'', Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), 2011. * Frank, Peter: "Context, Attitude, Community: The Early Years of the UCI Art Department", ''Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California''. Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, California, 2011. * Frank Peter: "Young Fluxus". Published by Artists Space / Open Studio, Barrytown, 1982.

External links

Lust & Desire
featuring hyper-realistic sculptor

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Frank's LA Weekly ArticlesRiverside Art MuseumExtensive biography
at the Huffington Post * *'That Layered look" by Peter Frank (art critic

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