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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

33, male, theater manager

2002

Nigel Poor

Associated Names

Nigel Poor

Artist, American, born 1963

The image displays six objects organized in a 2x3 grid: two books, a mug, a drinking bird toy, a film reel, and a cordless phone. The top left shows an open copy of "The Elements of Style," the top middle displays a cream-colored mug with "JUNKIE" written on it, and the top right features a red drinking bird toy. The bottom row includes a metallic film reel, a black cordless phone, and a paperback version of "The Random House Dictionary of the English Language." The color palette consists of neutral tones with pops of red, blue, and white.

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Artwork overview

Medium

6 chromogenic prints
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Cheryl Haines and Museum Purchase through support of Shifting Foundation and Jeff Keswin)
Dimensions

image/sheet (each): 21.5 × 21.5 cm (8 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
framed: 46.04 × 67.63 × 4.45 cm (18 1/8 × 26 5/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.4954.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Haines Gallery, San Francisco); gift and purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.

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Exhibition History

2003

Forty-Seventh Biennial Exhibition: Fantasy Underfoot, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, December 21, 2002 – March 11, 2003

Bibliography

2002

Binstock, Jonathan P. The 47th Corcoran Biennial: Fantasy Underfoot. Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2002: 78-81, 108.

Inscriptions

on verso of frame, by unknown hand, center in graphite on white label: group #1 / pod #6

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