Peter Frank is a critic, curator and historian based in Los Angeles. He is the author of New, Used & Improved: Art for the `80s (1987), Roller: The Paintings of Donald Roller Wilson (1988), Intimate and Incorrect: Paintings in Watercolor by Jerald Silva (1995), and other books, as well as myriad catalogue essays. Frank is a columnist for the L.A. Weekly and Angeleno magazine, former editor of Visions Art Quarterly, former critic for the Village Voice and the SoHo Weekly News, and contributor to Art News, Art on Paper, and many other periodicals. In 2002 he was co-curator for "On Ramps: Moments of Transition in California Art" at the Pasadena Museum for California Art and "Fluxus Film and Video" at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.

The essay "Warren Criswell: Anxious Realist" was written for the exhibition catalog for the 2003 exhibition at the Arkansa Arts Center, Warren Criswell: Shadows.