Imaginary Artifacts, Fakes and Fragments  is a series of pieces I have been working on that began with thoughts about the power of an object. Anna's pieces are inspired by art historical references, techniques, and objects from the past: from the alabaster, shell and lapis lazuli Syrian sculpture of the Administrator Ebih-il (2400 B.C in the Iraq Museum) and the carved limestone Assyrian wall relief depicting Prince Assurbanipal II’s lion hunt (7th c. B.C. in the British Museum), to Lorenzo Ghiberti’s cast bronze bas relief Gates of Paradise (15th c) and Alberto Giacometti’s Woman with her throat cut (1932). The sculptures are diminutive in scale and encourage thought on the critical contemporary issues of appropriation, ownership, and destruction of cultural objects.

Anna Poor [B. New York City, 1953] has been teaching at The Art Institute of Boston since 1992 and is a visiting associate professor. She received her degrees in sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art (BFA) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (MFA). She was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in 2001 and is an owner of Artstrand Gallery in Provincetown, Mass. Anna owrk is included in numerous collections, publications, and exhibitons world wide, including a one-person exhibition at James Graham & Sons in New York City.