ABOUT

Frankie Jolise Darrow is invested in wood as a material and exploring its physical properties, functionality and flaws. Wood is one of the main materials we encounter throughout our lives through nature and construction. We grow up in a house built from wood with furniture made out of wood. Although it is cut into specific shapes and sizes, it still maintains its natural properties. Through the use of it’s natural colors and grain, wood can be used as not only a functional material but also a compositional material.

Frankie is currently located in Montrose, PA. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited work at Gallery CA in Baltimore along with Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. She spent a semester studying in Florence, Italy in 2014. She is also interested in Art Conservation and interned at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in DC in 2015. She maintains her own woodshop and works in a custom frame shop.

Strong technical skills and labor intensive tasks are very important to her. Having the power to create with her hands and using her body as a tool to build other tools is something she thinks about while making.

People produce objects and objects influence the actions of people.