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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Frost, Phil
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2009 | | Class: | Original Art | | Status: | Official | | Size: | 22 X 30 | | Markings: | Signed |
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acrylic, spray paint and correction fluid on Arches watercolor paper; framed size is 24 x 36
From his 2009 exhibit at Jonathan Levine Gallery titled Paperweight: An Exhibition of Works on Paper
Using mediums such as ink, aerosol, gouache and oils, beneath a layer of correction fluid, Frost has been known to paint elaborate installations on found objects such as baseball bats, windowpanes, and old barn doors. Oscillating between modernist design and primitivism, abstraction and representation, Frost’s work is tied together cohesively by his signature top-layer of crisp white patterning—remarkably drawn free-hand with a correction fluid pen, without the use of stencils. This white-out element often appears to form a code or language, composed of letters, hearts, dots and mask-like faces, reminiscent of tribal and indigenous art. These symbols, which the artist refers to as “glyphic distinctions,†are painted on top of heavily textured backgrounds. The overall effect is a masking yet highlighting of negative space, like a delicate lace of personal faith and truth, veiling the decay of humanity. Frost’s deep pantheistic spirituality is expressed through imagery such as in the open-heart motif, which represents the surrender of self to a higher purpose.
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