Phil frost artist biography

Phil Frost is a contemporary American painter and installation artist with roots in the graffiti movement.
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Born in Jamestown (NY) in 1973, Phil Frost has held several solo exhibitions including at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia (2002) and.

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PHIL FROST

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This beautiful PHIL FROST monograph was published by DAMIANI in Spring 2008.
The 162 page hardback book has 164 images with text by Carlo McCormick and Pusshead.

"During the 90’s Phil Frost devised an immediately recognisable art on the streets of New York, covering walls and scrapped materials – old doors, tables and objets trouvés – with a white texture that fuses primitivism, graffiti, street art and graphic design. Following this trace of extraordinary visual impact, which recalls Australian and Hawaiian pictorial languages, the book Frost reconstructs the evolution of a graphic cipher rich in abbreviations, symbols and stylised logos that give this self taught artist’s works the primordial character of tribal articles. If it is true, as Phil Frost believes, “that within every person there is an indigenous expression of themselves,” his artistic action consists of “tattooing” the greatest possible number of surfaces, be they an old baseball bat or a girl’s skin. After working extensively on the streets, gaining fame among the mus
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PHIL FROST
New York artist Phil Frost creates work that combines the raw, gritty edge of the street with an elegant, painterly aesthetic. Frost first became known in the early 1990s for his involved installations on the streets of New York. Locations were scouted, measured and analyzed for feasibility before he painstakingly created the artwork in his studio. Works, usually composed of numerous panels were then affixed to his targets under cover of darkness. In 1994, these street works inspired a PBS documentary feature on the artist. His transition to the gallery world was inevitable and after a string of strong showings in group exhibitions, he mounted his first solo exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, in 1999.
His found object constructions and works on canvas are a multi-layered combination of colorful, almost comic-strip portraits and intricate typography overlaid with bold graphic symbols rendered, more often than not, in correction fluid. Words and slogans that are a hybrid of numerous languages, both real and imagined, are layered within the works to creat
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Biography
www.philfrost.com

Born in 1973 in Jamestown, New York
Previously lived and worked in New York
Currently lives and works on the Gulf Coast of Florida

Education
Self-taught American painter

Awards and grants
2004 Pollack Krasner Award
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2002 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient
1996 Pernod Award

Solo exhibitions
2018 Ellipse of Passage, Galería Javier López & Fer Francés, Madrid
2016 - 2017 Magnetic Shift, Corning Tower Concourse Level - Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, New York
2014 Intuitive Mathematics, Galería Javier López, Madrid
2013 The Solace of the Sword, Ace Gallery Los Angeles
2009 Phil Frost Paperweight: An Exhibition of Works on Paper, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York
2006 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2004 mALORsUDas sOLarMB: Selected works by Phil Frost, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, New York
2003 Phil Frost: Painting / Design, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
2002 Soalmb Seven, Penns