KIM POOR

• 74990 - Non-trading company

"Kim Poor is both a typical and an untypical product of Latin American art. A Brazilian, she (like many leading Latin American artists) found herself through studying abroad, first in the United States, then in Britain. In the USA she studied at the Parsons School of Design, then with the celebrated figurative painter Larry Rivers, at Skidmore College in upstate New York. While at Skidmore, she invented a new technique of painting, using granules of ground glass, fused to sheets of steel. This technique was christened ‘Diaphanism' by Salvador Dali - a term that has now entered the Oxford English Dictionary. The technique involves fusing specks of pure pigment to the metal that is used as a base. The firings are made many times over, at both high and low temperatures, using both opaque and transparent glass. Though there is obviously a wide technical difference in the way in which various colour effects are achieved, the way in which Kim Poor works has something in common with Seurat's..

Also known as: KIM POOR LIMITED

Registration numbers: 03231494 (CH)

Primary location: Hong Kong Macau