About The Artist

Frankie Wolf is an award winning, self-taught artist who has been creating for over 50 years. She considers her work to be symbolic, with an appreciation for abstraction and distortion.

“I often look for ways to capture the beauty of the strange.” – Frankie Wolf 

Wolf’s major work regularly explores her fascination with global mythology and guising which includes influences from folk art, petroglyphs, and wild man/woman representations. She finds interest in the gritty imperfections of life, the gaps that are often overlooked and subjects that are not normally highlighted in the mainstream. Her work has been described as being “rich with layers” in relation to her techniques along with her themes and ideas.  
 

She has several ongoing series including Tokens, Shadowbox Anomalous (which is an overall umbrella series featuring several sub-series), and Images & Reflections. She has recently begun a new series called Alien Landscapes which is intended to be part of a future group showcase with the artists’ collective, Iblebe. That showcase is being created under the overall title: ExoUniverse.

Wolf was the featured artist at The Cellar in 1994 with her solo show Palooza People, which included a permanent mural and installation. Her next solo show First Folk was held at the Koger Center for the Arts Donor Room in 1996. Between 1985 and 1998 she was invited to create numerous illustrations for local businesses in the Midlands and publications including a comic zine. She also created various pieces for Columbia’s famed Rockafellas. 

More recently she exhibited her Tokens series at Cool Beans in 2016 and was the featured artist for USC’s Southern Exposure in 2018 with Duo Cortona. In 2019, she had work on display at Columbia College’s Goodall Gallery for a Trenholm Artists Guild showcase. Over the years, Wolf has been chosen for awards and comments by such known art luminaries as Dorothy Netherland, Ed Rice, Wim Roefs, Claire Farrell,  Mark Anderson, Jane Nodine and Karen Oremus.

Wolf has been invited to submit work to the National Art Center, Tokyo by the French-Japanese institution, Salon Blanc, four times: in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. In 2021, she exhibited work at Gallery Akatsuki which is located in the famous Ginza district of Chūō, Tokyo. 

She is a former board member of the Trenholm Artists Guild and a founding member of Iblebe, a new artists’ collective. As a part of Iblebe she helped to organize an Artists’ Day at the 2022 Irmo Cherry Blossom Festival. 

Exhibitions

1994: Solo Exhibition, Palooza People, The Cellar Gallery, Columbia, SC

1996: Solo Exhibition, First Folk, The Koger Center for the Arts Donor Room, Columbia, SC

2016: Solo Exhibition, Tokens, Cool Beans Gallery, Columbia, SC

2016: The 6th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Marshall A. Shearouse Gallery, West Columbia, SC
 

2017: The 7th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Marshall A. Shearouse Gallery, West Columbia, SC  

2018: Doodle Freely, Richland Public Library, Columbia, SC 

2018: Solo Exhibition, Southern Exposure: Shadowbox Anomalous with Duo Cortona, Columbia, SC  

2018: The 37th Annual TAG Spring Show, Best Mattress Gallery, Columbia, SC
 

2018: The 8th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Marshall A. Shearouse Gallery, West Columbia, SC 

2019: The 38th Annual TAG Spring Show, Best Mattress Gallery, Columbia, SC 

2019: Out of the Box: The Fringe Festival, West Main Artists Cooperative, Spartanburg, SC 

2019: The 9th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Marshall A. Shearouse Gallery, West Columbia, SC

2019: The Trenholm Artists Guild Showcase, SCFCU, Columbia, SC 

2019: The Trenholm Artists Guild Showcase, Goodall Gallery, Columbia, SC 

2020: The Salon Blanc International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan 

2020: The 39th Annual TAG Spring Show, Best Mattress Gallery, Columbia, SC 

2020: The 10th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Marshall A. Shearouse Gallery, West Columbia, SC

2020: Whisper to a Shout, Virtual Exhibition, Global

2021: The Salon Blanc International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2021: The 40th Annual TAG Spring Show and 50th Anniversary, Best Mattress Gallery, Columbia, SC

2021: The Salon Blanc International Exchange Exhibition, Gallery Akatsuki, Tokyo, Japan

2021: The 11th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, New Gallery, West Columbia, SC

2022: Southern Exposure: Retrospective "Artist Exposure", W. W. Hootie Johnson Performance Hall, Darla Moore School of Business, Columbia, SC

2022: The 41st Annual TAG Spring Show, Best Mattress Gallery, Columbia, SC

2022: The Salon Blanc International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2022: The 12th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, New Gallery, West Columbia, SC

2023: The Salon Blanc International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Experience:  

1984-1997: Freelance Illustrations, various companies, Lexington and Columbia, SC

1986: Mascot Murals for Rupert's Wing Inn, Columbia, SC

1989 - 1997: Props and sets for the Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC

1994: Mural for The Cellar, Columbia, SC 

Collaborations

1994: Scrim painting with Carl E. Copeland for Columbia City Ballet's The Ballet Tara 

2021: Founding member of the artists' collective: Iblebe 

Awards: 

2019: Honorable Mention, Nestlings, The 38th Annual TAG Spring Show, Juror: Ed Rice 

2019: Best of Show, The Quiet Empire, The 9th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Juror: Dorothy Netherland

2020: Merit Award, Sidhe Ring, The 10th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Juror: Wim Roefs 

2021: Merit Award, The King in Yellow, The 40th Annual TAG Spring Show and 50th Anniversary, Juror: Claire Farrell

2021: First Place, Sylvan Song, The 11th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Juror: Karen Oremus

2022: Noteworthy, I Am Mountain, The 41st Annual TAG Spring Show, Juror: Jane Allen Nodine

2022: Third Place, Night Garden, The 12th Annual TAG at Still Hopes, Juror: Mark Anderson