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2024-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Why Portraits
2024-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
2024-02-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/news/2024-02-07-wip.jpg" alt="Work in Progress!" /></p>
<p>A brief note on portraits, or: why bother? Why paint them?</p>
<p>(This is not about photographic portraits: given the mobile computing camera app revolution, there are more pictures of you and your’n than at any previous time in history, ever, and on average they’re also better, as long as your’n aren’t into the <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=duckface+selfie&iax=images&ia=images">duckface</a> thing.)</p>
<p>Disclaimer: I have drawn a few portraits in my time, and even did a few serious-ish photographic portraits, and I also have a Very Tiny Oeuvre of mixed-media portraits, but at this moment in time I am doing the Abstract Figurative thing and not portraits. But I’m thinking.</p>
<p>So the first thing is: if you’re trying to paint your moment in time, what could be more of-the-moment than the face (body, whatever, I don’t judge) of someone else who is alive at that very moment?</p>
<p>And maybe it’s an important person: to you, to the world.</p>
<p>This argues in favor.</p>
<p>The other thing, and I hate to say this because it goes against my general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi">MO</a> as an artist, against the whole “dammit I do what I do” ethos: to guarantee a good home for the work.</p>
<p>Now let’s start with the generous assumption that your work is at least <em>good</em> and that it <em>deserves</em> to be seen by people. Because we’re generous, yes we are.</p>
<p>Make a good picture of someone, and the people who care about that person will want to look at it. You greatly reduce the chances of your picture ending up in the closet; the trash; the <a href="https://www.goodwillfinds.com/search/?q=painting">Goodwill</a>; or, if you’re that big a deal, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Freeport">Freeport</a>.</p>
<p>And as useful constraints go, isn’t <em>“make it look enough like Joe that his wife likes it, without just copying a famous photograph of Joe”</em> a pretty good one?</p>
<p>The AI is not going to put painters out of business. Lower-end illustrators, yes; “artists” who work for big video-game companies, yes; but not painters. For exactly the same reason photography didn’t. The ride with AI might be more fun though:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2024-02-07-ai1.jpg" alt="Work of Progress?" /></p>
<p>In fact the craziness of the human mind will have an ever-growing premium. Just like lots of lazy asshat “artists” grab a famous photo and make a painting of it, so too will people AI themselves up a celebrity and do that. Like this:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2024-02-07-ai2.jpg" alt="Work against Progress!" /></p>
<p>So there’s my argument in favor of portraits, from a painter’s point of view. Recap:</p>
<ol>
<li>Witness your time!</li>
<li>Make things people care about.</li>
<li>Use the creative constraint.</li>
<li>AI is disruptive but not for us.</li>
</ol>
<p>Does that mean I’ll be making portraits?</p>
<p>Not in the immediate future, but as they say: Watch This Space! 🛸</p>
<hr />
<p>PS, I somehow ended up with a misconfigured AI thingy, and I think I like it better than the functioning one. Here’s its take on the refined gentlemen above:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2024-02-07-ai3.jpg" alt="What is Progress?" /></p>
Big Carl
2024-01-29T00:00:00+00:00
2024-01-29T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/big-carl/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/news/carl-hamburger-museum-1992.jpeg" alt="Big Carl" /></p>
<p>Today, or perhaps yesterday, my Uncle Carl found his old sailboat and crossed the River Styx. He was 87 and lived a very good life. This is him in Hamburg, in 1991 or 1992, just a little older than I am now. He’s the one on the left. He was a cool cat. We shall meet again in the Great Weightlifting Gym in the Sky!</p>
<p>Back when I was a student, Carl gave me a lot of moral support. He tried to buy a painting from me, but one thing led to another and we never set it up. It was a rare vote of confidence in those early days. I owe him one. At least one.</p>
<p>He also gave me some good advice for life, most of which I ignored, and some of which I try my best to follow. I think about him every time I hit the gym.</p>
<p><em>Jó utat, Karcsi Bácsi!</em></p>
2567 • ๒๕๖๗
2024-01-14T00:00:00+00:00
2024-01-14T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/2024-01-14/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>Well then, off to a decent enough start innit? Hands up, those in agreement?</p>
<p><img src="/news/2024-01-14-handsup.jpg" alt="Hands?" /></p>
<p>In the House (condo) of Frost (et al) it’s mostly been a busy year, the first
two weeks of it. And now here we are staring at Week Three and just figuring
it’s gonna somehow come together. Well, probably.</p>
<p>Weird shit: I listened to two art-world insiders speculate on who would be the
first blue-chip artists to full-on embrace “AI” (in whatever form) and they
didn’t even mention <a href="https://ursfischer.com/images">Urs Fischer</a>,
who I think is the obvious choice.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kawitavv/">Kawita Vatanajyankur</a> is
not blue-chip <em>yet</em> so she doesn’t count, but mark my words,
Dear Reader, she’s going to be remembered as one of the main people bridging
the gap between the AI nerdiverse and the Big-Time Art World. Most of what
you see from her is the video/performance art pieces that are about humanizing
various forms of mechanical labor – with a nice dash of BDSM if you have an
eye for it – but a lot of her <em>new</em> stuff is about AI.</p>
<p>Anyway, these dudes were betting on <a href="http://www.jeffkoons.com/">Jeff Effin’ Koons</a>. Really?</p>
<p>Urs Fischer did friggin’ <a href="https://chaosoahchaos.com">NFTs</a>, people!</p>
<p>(Pretty cynical ones in my opinion, but having listened to an inteview with the
Ursmeister himself, I’m not going to double down on it… he’s more thoughtful
than he wants you to give him credit for. Which is maybe a Swiss thing?)</p>
<p>Hands up, those…</p>
<p><img src="/news/2024-01-14-hands2.jpg" alt="Hands?!" /></p>
<p>Do I still have your attention? Are you still here? Is <em>here</em> a real place?
If two AIs do a <del>Voight-Kampff</del> Turing test on each other, and one wins,
does anybody hear (about) it?</p>
<p>Is <a href="https://www.alexkatz.com">Alex Katz</a> a good painter? I mean,
he <em>executes</em> as well as anyone, but are the paintings good?
I can never make up my mind. David Salle
<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/follow-the-light-alex-katz-gathering/">says yes</a>,
emphatically, but I’m not sure I buy the reasoning. The NYT is
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/t-magazine/alex-katz.html">convinced</a>,
and I’m sure he deserves the recent attention, he’s been on the scene
forever and he’s a thoughtful painter, but… I dunno, something about the
work itself. Maybe it’s just too New York for me?</p>
<p>Oh, and speaking of artists, several of them are there in my latest, quietly
published latest issue of <a href="https://severalartists.com/archive/004-bechanida-hurst-hananuntasuk/">Several Artists</a>. I should flog this more, but I should
also write it more – as with the art itself, I feel like the doing is the
most important thing right now, and I can worry about the audience later.
Which is probably a terrible idea.</p>
<p>So on a more positive note, let’s consider for a moment the genius of
Joseph Mallord William <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/trnr/hd_trnr.htm">Turner</a>.
Now <em>that</em> was a painter! What talent, what precision skill honed in endless
hours of practice, and still what creativity, what vision!
He even had a <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mr_turner">movie</a>
made about him! (I jest, but actually it’s a very good
movie, if you have the patience for it.)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-norham-castle-sunrise-n01981"><img src="/news/2024-01-14-turner.jpg" alt="Norham Castle Sunrise" /></a></p>
<p>How is a picture like this even possible? It’s not what he <em>saw</em> exactly, but
it’s the essence of it, it’s what we need to see in order to see what he saw,
if we have the capacity to see it.
That’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norham_Castle">Norham Castle</a> up there, a real place.</p>
<p>I’m glad Mr Katz has found fame and fortune and critical acclaim, and I’m
happy he’s still alive to enjoy these celebrations of his work. Must be a
great feeling, to walk through
the <a href="https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/alex-katz-gathering">Guggenheim</a>
and it’s just all you, all over the place, after so many years of making and
showing and selling the work.</p>
<p>But just like me, and probably just like you, he’s no JMW Turner. And this is
a thing that makes me wonder about our ever-expanding universe of art in my
time on the planet: are we getting better, or are we just getting <em>more?</em></p>
<hr />
<hr />
<p>Art Thought of the Day: if you have an idea for a painting, before you do the
painting ask yourself <em>why does this need to be a painting?</em> As opposed to
any other thing it could be – a silkscreen, a video, a song, whatever. If you
don’t have a good answer, don’t make it a painting.</p>
<p>The world is <a href="https://youtu.be/Pcfn7PtaM3A">turning faster</a>…</p>
<p><img src="/news/2024-01-14-fast.jpg" alt="เร็ว" /></p>
NYE 2023 FTW
2023-12-31T00:00:00+00:00
2023-12-31T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/2023-12-31/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>The new year – ปีใหม่, roughly <em>bpee mai</em> in Thai – is on the cusp.
The switch to 2567 (Buddhist calendar) is imminent. Not sure if that
number has any astrological significance but it will certainly improve
my muscle-memory for typing the number ๗.</p>
<p>I was in <a href="https://downtownla.com/maps/arts-and-entertainment/museums-and-galleries/arts-district/all">LA</a> and in
<a href="https://santafe.com/galleries/">Santa Fe</a>, New Mexico. Enough pixels
have been spilled on the difference, but before I talk about some
great art I saw in LA, here’s proof that even little old StaFe has
some underground action, and of course one from the Newer City of
<a href="https://kealakai.byuh.edu/krung-thep-maha-nakhon-the-other-name-for-the-city-of-bangkok-thailand-is-a-name-already-known-locally-thai-students-say">Angels</a> – I bet you can guess which is which.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-12-31-butcher.jpg" alt="The Butcher Comin’" /></p>
<p>…<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9AFd7QpzVM">versus</a> Skeletor…</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-12-31-skeletor.jpg" alt="The Skeletor Comin’" /></p>
<p>One detects a theme! Honestly, as I slowly get to know Santa Fe a
little bit at a time, and get to know Los Angeles better (alas too
slowly), I find that the part of the former I really like is the
proletarian, Mexican-and-Indigenous part; and I like that part of
LA as well. In LA it is a community that is very much “arted up” –
is it in New Mexico as well? Sooner or later I’m going to find out.</p>
<p>So three cheers and again three more for public-service art like the
two anonymous masterpieces shown above. Now onward…</p>
<hr />
<p>This trip to LA was sadly very short, I only had time to see one
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thetabblabs/">friend</a> and one set of
galleries.</p>
<p>First, a very minor digression. In principle I understand the need for
higher-end galleries to have big industrial spaces. This need starts
with the megalomania infesting art production since perhaps the 80’s,
and dominating the art market since about 2010 (rough spitball dates
here). I’m working on a theory connecting this to postwar German
industrialist patrons of the arts, but that’s for another day. For now
you can just blame Andy Warhol if you like.</p>
<p>So you want to sell big paintings for big money and you need big spaces
to display them, but you’re not (yet) the
<a href="https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/2022/announcing-our-los-angeles-gallery-spaces-opening-2023">Zwirner</a>
family and you can’t afford to plop them down in the cool part of town.
Although, note to the ambitious:
<a href="https://karmakarma.org">Karma</a> Gallery managed it somehow!</p>
<p>The normal solution is to get yourself a building, or part of one, in
a part of town nobody ever walks around in, because anyway you don’t
care about “foot traffic” at those prices. And so it is with
<a href="https://www.nicodimgallery.com">Nicodim</a> and its neighbors,
<a href="https://vielmetter.com">Vielmetter</a> chief among them. It was worth
the going, surely, but dude, is a friggin’ coffee shop too much to
ask? It’s not like I’m expecting you to serve me
<a href="https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/rirkrit-tiravanija">lunch</a>!</p>
<p><em>(NB: Highlight of the trip was chatting with the Ugandan Lyft driver about Idi Amin, but the art was a close second!)</em></p>
<p>Right then. What did I see?</p>
<p>First off, and this show was actually my reason for going out there,
I had a look at the very high-minded and frankly difficult work of
<a href="https://www.joshuahagler.com">Joshua Hagler</a>. You may, dear reader,
recall that I wrote about his wife’s work over at
<a href="https://severalartists.com/archive/003-ruznic-macia/">Several Artists</a>.
As the gallery worker said, <em>they are both very serious.</em></p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-12-31-hagler.jpg" alt="One Big Hagler" /></p>
<p>There are a lot of things I find interesting about this guy, interesting
enough that some day I will try to write more about him, but the two
that are front of mind are: first, how much postwar German art has
influenced him (me too of course); and second, how very <em>ernst</em> is his
undertaking, in fact intellectual – and I’m sure this makes it a
slightly difficult journey because despite the fashionably massive
sizes, this is work aimed squarely at the art museum. I have a hard
time imagining it brightening the lobby of an investment bank. In fact,
as he is clearly gaining traction in the art world, I worry – not for
him, but for the work itself – that some of it may well end up stuck in
a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Freeport">freeport</a> because it’s
probably a good investment but it’s a challenge to look at it. In a good
way, if you’re serious about art, but is that what the hedge-funder
collecting class is about?</p>
<p>As if the Nicodemians knew your brain might need a rest after pondering
the Haglerverse, another of their galleries – there are three in the
same building – had a show of <em>fun</em> paintings (good ones at that, and closer
to human scale) by
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/xinyan_wang_/">Xinyan Wang</a>.
Another artist to follow!</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-12-31-wang.jpg" alt="Lovely Trees" /></p>
<hr />
<p>I could go on, but the clock strikes Lunch and I have to make it to the
champagne store before it strikes <em>Alkoholverkaufsverbot,</em> a daily scourge in
the Land of Smiles. So just briefly, if you’re still here, go have a look at
<a href="https://www.toddgrayart.com">Todd Gray</a>. Another Very Serious Artist but
playful, and in his best work, mind-expanding. Saw him at
<a href="https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/todd-gray-rome-work/">Vielmetter</a>
and was sad I would miss his talk there. </p>
<p>LA, as always, awaits with world-class art. Unlike my old home of
San Francisco, you can feel the city’s ambition. I look forward to my next
trip, and hope to have a few more days for it.</p>
<hr />
<p>Closing note: drawing from life is great exercise, and one should do it more
than once every few months. Drawing the figure is particularly difficult,
maybe the most difficult thing because you have to not only draw what you see,
you have to also <em>not</em> draw what you think you see. Many thanks to
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jtcanvas/">John Trollett</a> and the
<a href="https://www.meetup.com/tuesdaynightdrawing/">Tuesday Night Drawing</a> group for
their hospitality!</p>
<p>The sketch below is what I saw.
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C1YMBDZps5Q/?img_index=1">Sort-of</a>.
A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YC2mGkFpcs">collarbone</a>.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-12-31-collarbone.jpg" alt="Collarbone" /></p>
<p>Happy New Year! Next update in 2567…</p>
Stu-stu-studio
2023-12-04T00:00:00+00:00
2023-12-04T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/2023-12-04/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>I’m in no position to complain so I shall not, but I just dropped by to say I
think the artist’s studio is underrated, on several vectors, and by many who
should know a whole lot better.</p>
<p>Before I wax nostalgic and speculative, I will try to explain what I mean by
these words.</p>
<p>Oh, and shout out to
<a href="https://youtu.be/r0qBaBb1Y-U?si=sbYP-DpgeD6vuPkN">Phil Collins</a>,
how was that man even possible?</p>
<p><strong>First</strong> it’s underrated as a tool of the artist – not indispensible,
but neither are paintbrushes for a painter. Let’s say a decent studio is a
<em>force multiplier</em>
for your work, and that holds for any version of “decent” and “studio.”</p>
<p>But it’s also underrated as a key to the artist’s vision. Some things you can
very easily discover by the smallest look at someone’s studio: how much of the
inevitable chaos in their mind is allowed into their laboratory? (It’s worth
asking why, for any given value).</p>
<p>It’s easy to find extreme cases: the disheveled
<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=francis+bacon+studio&va=d&t=hi&iax=images&ia=images">genius</a>
in his lair; the wounded narcissist
<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jackson+pollack+at+work&va=d&t=hi&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images">addict</a> thrashing about like a landed fish. But you can also get plenty of knowledge
on the fast track for minor artists, even little old me. (Hint: I have no
real studio at the moment, and that too says a lot.)</p>
<p>Here’s a short list of things to look out for:</p>
<ol>
<li>Is it messy? (How messy?)</li>
<li>Does it have good light, at least once a day?</li>
<li>Are all tools ready at hand?</li>
<li>Is there a computer in the room?</li>
<li>What about assistants?</li>
</ol>
<p>I could go on, obviously. And the people who should know better? Why artists
themselves, of course; and art critics, who usually <em>do not</em> visit studios,
out of some weird sense of professional ethics; and art historians, who usually
don’t get the chance and thus will downplay what they can’t own.</p>
<p>Dealers and collectors, on the other hand, are usually pretty clear-eyed about
the importance of the studio. Though I will admit that in my art-collector
role (about which much, much more some other day) I’m terrible at inviting
myself to studios, and I’m not a big enough deal to be taken anywhere by
dealers, so it’s clearly not enough to merely <em>know.</em></p>
<p>Wanna deep-dive on a studio of art-historical significance? Get Thee To
<a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5344">Matisse!</a></p>
<hr/>
<p>Alright then, let’s wax.</p>
<hr/>
<h3 id="my-studios-more-or-less-to-date">My Studios, More or Less, To Date</h3>
<p>The first studio I ever thought of as my workspace, my magical art-conjuring
corner, was not even private. For about a year I was sufficiently ensconced
in the group painting studio in one of those anonymous, institutional structures
that at least had the excuse of being made from public funds. You often had to
call security to be let in: I don’t remember why but I didn’t rate a key. None
of the paintings I worked on there were very good, though one still exists, or
maybe two exist. But the fun part was that it was a year in which I was trying
hard to get better at painting; and we had an inspirational visiting professor,
was it Cheryl Laemmle? This was at Cal State Chico, a school that keeps
records poorly if at all. At the times when I worked best (still do), it was
usually either empty, or had just one or two fellow students who were serious
about their work and not going to get in your face.</p>
<p>This shared but private space has always stayed with me as some kind of guiding
light for a dream of one day having a grownup version: industrial, managed, and
not only about me.</p>
<p>Time passed. I must have had another painting space at that school but I can’t
remember it exactly. By the time I had the connections to get a cooler space,
I most definitely didn’t have the funds.</p>
<p>My other “uni,” Tübingen, gave me some joy in making inspired but very small
art – a couple paintings still haunt me, I wish I could remember where they
went, to whom they were “gifted” (Midvale School For The…) – but the closest
thing I had to a studio was the printmaking attic in one of the glorious old
buildings (I was doing philology, Brecht-Bau, no stone columns for me). There
I felt too much the outsider to go by myself. (A couple good prints, a couple bad ones, and about
the lithograph I made, the only one I ever made, the only thing I can remember
is that I failed to translate “disaffection” on demand, and the fuck it deserves
any space in my mind but that moment is stuck there, and at least it was a
<em>learning</em> as they say now: I know better than to discuss works in progress.)</p>
<p>And yet despite almost catching my hair on fire one night, which is a very
“art studio” thing to do; and despite the half-forgotten unforgettable nights
of vodka and tea with my Russian neighbors in the communal kitchen, also
possibly the effing <em>artsiest</em> moments of my life, nothing I had there felt
like a studio.</p>
<p>San Francisco was an almost, but not quite, the first time around. (My missed
opportunities in SF and Berlin, between them, can only be forgiven by placing
front and center the fact that I am here, now, where I am, and that is a grand
and glorious place, and I never would have found it without SF and Berlin not
working out.) I had a dedicated, if very small, studio on 22nd Street in what
was the original laundry room (we were too broke to buy the machines, and too
ignorant of false economies). But I did very little in it, and the pictures I
made that were good, mostly came together in my bedroom, which was amazing.
Now Zuckerberg lives a block away when he’s in a hipster mood,
and I would bet dollars to donuts there
aren’t any artists left in what was once known as Gourmet Gulch. But for the
record: Holly Grimm, Christoph Dohrmann, Rachel Watson, and your humble host
all made ideas there, and some of those ideas became art, and some of it was
good art. Plus the many visitors.</p>
<p>And then I was in Berlin, first time living there, and damn did I play that
card wrong – it was the time of very cheap real estate, but also of coal
heating in Kreuzberg, and I made some work in my tiny apartment but before I
could say <em>misdirection</em> I fell in love with Budapest, where I would end up
painting on kitchen tables for way too long. And Berlin Round One was a wash,
though I made some good memories: in particular with Pascal and Babak and
Ulf and briefly even the elusive Nasha. Plus Andi and… and… fuck me, I
can’t remember their names, but for a brief spell we were friends. Hope they
made it through the years OK.</p>
<p>Am I only going to write about the <em>not</em> studios? Right. There were also some
pseudo-studios, I will mention Downieville where I had for many years turned
the Spare Room into a makeshift studio, sort-of, for summer use in combination
with a sturdy card table and a metal easel outdoors. But it wasn’t the real
thing.</p>
<p>The real thing <em>almost</em> broke through on an extended San Francisco earning trip,
the first I think, in the form of <em>half</em> an attic, and nothing even close to
legal about it, in the shared rental with Imre and Anna and Cheyenne (RIP),
for which I gladly overpaid as I was flush and most of my friends were not.
I had a slice of attic, basically, and the rest was unruly storage. But when I
was there I was there alone, and could do a little work in pure solitude.</p>
<p>By then I was living mostly in Budapest but I was continuing to make work on
tables in rentals. Finally I bought a place and dedicated a room to be the
studio – and promptly watched it spend the vast majority of its time as a
combination of guest room and office. I sold it for a handful of peanuts to
Madeleine and Bullet (RIP) and a lot of art was made there over the years, but
I only reluctantly consider it a studio. Because I had an ambition for it to
be, and in a limited sense it was. And also: lessons.</p>
<p>Among the many pictures from there, the biggest one that survives is titled
<em>Chico Full Circle</em> and is on Thing Two’s wall (that is to say, Mihály Andrea).
At least it was the last time I checked.</p>
<p>After finishing that painting, I had to return to California for a
few years, to right the ship as they say. Which led, for better and also for
worse (sorry about the party! fuck you about the living room!), to a cohabitation
with Jim Mason, one of the low points of which (but also high point!) was finding
Matthew Barney’s industrial boogers all over my clothes when I removed them from
the dryer one day. But also: I had a studio! A single tiny room, but dedicated
to nothing but making art. I couldn’t go wild but I also didn’t have to be too
careful, the room was a little beat. I got an unbelievable desk at the Goodwill
(still out there, I hope) and make some damn find paintings if I may say so. A
few survive.</p>
<p>Then, as one does, I moved to Berlin. And being in Berlin for the second time
and having some money, I was not going to <em>not</em> have a studio again! And so in
the searching I stumbled upon Winsstrasse 17. I sublet in the cold from an
American (Canadian?) child of privilege and Yale, whose work was interesting
in a fragile way, and who is probably a professor of renown by now. And then
I ran into the Russian lady who handed me the lease to her tiny studio in return
for, as is the Berlin custom, buying her crap-ass furniture for ten times what
it was worth. (Or infinity-times: it was worth nothing.)</p>
<p>And then I had “the Wins.” Too small, too damp, too dark, too cold, but for
once a dedicated space that was officially mine by lease! And it was literally
a two-minute walk from the main art-supply shop in Europe, Boesner. It was a
stunted little version of heaven.</p>
<p>But I fell in love with Budapest again and couldn’t square the circle, and it
turned out having the place when not really in Berlin was a lot of trouble.
And then they kicked me out in order to renovate, and were Not Amused when I
showed up moments before eviction to demand another month (my right) and also
ask if they’d sell me the place. No, in short, they would not.</p>
<p>Eventually, after at least one mildly humiliating rejection ritual – lookin’
at you, Jurányi: enjoy your dictatorship, you earned it! – I ended
up stumbling into the grandest studio I’ve had so far. This was in Hegedű utca,
and it was huge, and felt very properly studio-like, and I made a bunch of
paintings in it, but it had serious drawbacks.</p>
<p>First, the building management was a bunch of jokers. Their concept failed
and they tried to make a nightclub and a hostel in the same space as a bunch
of art studios.</p>
<p>But second, the neighbor above had some kind of <em>Ausdruckstanz</em> thing going on
and the ceiling would shed plaster into my wet acrylics whenever his none-too-svelte customers were
at it. And they would shit up the bathrooms, no doubt from the stress of having
to jump up and down above my head, and His Dancerness would not lower himself
to accept any responsibility for this. Really, cleaning the shitter after
each session would’ve been enough.</p>
<p>The hostel thing got me kicked out of my giant studio but as luck would have
it, a disgruntled artist and drawing-teacher above me bailed just then, and I
scored a top-floor unit and had to remove hundreds of nails from the walls.
That’s solidarity for ya. And that studio – I’m pretty sure it was Kati
Verebics’s studio years before – had a leaky roof the management refused to
fix. In the end it was too much and I dropped the key off with some harsh
words after moving my stuff out on a weekend.</p>
<p>And since then it’s been half-rooms and whole rooms but always in the flat or
condo. And I very much yearn for the next real studio, I’m ready to rock &
roll! One is under construction in the Canaries; another is forming in my
brain in Isaan, bit by slender bit; but the urban industrial space will have to wait for a while. I
can almost see it in my mind’s eye, just not quite – even the vision needs a
bit more money and a bit more ภาษาไทย.</p>
<p>For now, it’s my easels and tables and trolley carts in my office and I’ll make it work.</p>
<p>This has been a bit of a ramble but I may return to each of these places in a future post,
they all have their stories.</p>
<hr/>
<p>And what, no pictures? No, it’s late, I’ve been on the road, I’m almost out
of ice cubes, and I can’t be bothered to rummage through the archive, i.e.
the “archive,” and while I may or may not be looking for an excuse to play
with <a href="https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep">ripgrep</a> I must confess that my
<em>filing</em> skills are deficient.</p>
<p>But! I was just in Mae Hong Son. Here, have some
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huai_Nam_Dang_National_Park">mountains</a>:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-12-04-huay.jpg" alt="Mountains" /></p>
Sizing
2023-11-03T00:00:00+00:00
2023-11-03T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/2023-11-03/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>An arguably unkind thought occurred to me while listening to an interview
with an artist given to US-academic critical word salad, and large opaque
works, and assistants in her studio.</p>
<p>The thought:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Every artist has an obligation to talk about their work in terms the laity can understand.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Of course I don’t really believe in the “obligation” of any artist to do or
not do anything, and in societies where such obligations exist you usually
end up with pretty bad art. <em>(Hello, socialist realism! Hello, Marxist
vocabulary applied to art criticism in late-Capitalist society!)</em></p>
<p>But would it kill you to just say “I make huge black blobs because I feel they
are an expression of mystical history, and between rich collectors and
the grant system I manage to keep a staff to help me build them, which I need
because some of them are really effing huge?”</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-11-03-blob.png" alt="Whatevs?" /> Blob not to scale.</p>
<p>As long as I’m being a grumpy old representative of the as-yet unsmashed
<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/11/02/picassos-transformations-andy-warhol-jed-perl/">patriarchy</a>,
I also wish to grumble about –</p>
<h3 id="gigantism">Gigantism</h3>
<p>Or, the insistence by artists, especially painters, on making artworks so big
it’s very difficult to store them, and only the very rich and/or institutions
can possibly collect them.</p>
<p>I get it, it’s a flex, and you’re going for your moment in the well-paid sun,
and anyway storage space is cheap enough that for you, the artist, it’s a
rational bet: <em>I will court the Very Rich, and if I am successful I have this
catalog of vast artworks ready to sell; if I’m not, whatever, I’m going to end
up in the degree mills anyway and I can scratch my ego at the faculty show,
maybe it’ll even get me laid.</em></p>
<p>And it’s not like massive paintings are new. It’s just that massive paintings
by young, unproven, probably minor artists are now so much A Thing that I have
to extend extra praise to anyone who actually makes decent artworks under a
square meter.</p>
<p>At a recent show full of what I guess, nowadays, I have to call “Size M”
paintings (and a couple of “L” and one “XL”) I bought some sweet little ones
that I think were as good as any of the big ones. But cheaper, and easier to
manage, and you can take them in your hand and contemplate them, and so on.</p>
<p>But that show, ironically, got me thinking that I, yes I too, <em>FFS</em> even I,
need to start making larger works. Just because so many of the exhibition
spaces I could realistically get my hands on (yes, pay-to-play, what of it?)
are so massive, I fear my modest little collection of faces would not hold its
own. I yearn for the old-school small gallery… which, sure, probably I will
start on my own one day. Just to do it.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to completely discount the “human-scale” effect, as explained to
me by an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/davidssutherland/">artist</a> I know. And I
surely will end up with more giant paintings of my own, and by others, on my
walls and probably in my storage as well. But in addition to all that, I say
show the good work at 40x50cm or smaller. If you have none, I’m not sure I
trust your motivations.</p>
<p>I’m considering submitting a proposal for a multimedia work and I think the
work itself is good at almost any size, let’s say a 24“ monitor and a shelf
of the same width, that would be enough. But I worry that if I don’t say it
has to be a full-room projection then people will not take me seriously. Which
is nuts, but here we are. (Where are we?)</p>
<p>OK, here’s a thought, then I’ll shut up about the gigantism of contemporary
painting:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Rent a storage unit and fill it with giant paintings bought at a discount
from artists who are making huge paintings but failing to sell them to rich
collectors. When it is full, abandon it. Document everything.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><img src="/news/2023-11-03-giant.jpg" alt="Koons For Lunch" /> ¡Vamos Gigantes!</p>
<h3 id="drawn-and">Drawn And…</h3>
<p>Lately I’ve been thinking about what to do with my smallest works. Of which
there are certainly some tiny ones, but most of these are more or less
<a href="https://www.prepressure.com/library/paper-size/din-a5">A5</a> in size and most
are drawings, some are watercolors, a very few are mixed media… oh and I
have a bunch of similar-sized acrylic paintings too. Shit. But let’s just
talk about the A5 drawings, to keep things simple.</p>
<p>If I had a larger audience I would probably just give them away, in order to
build followers. I’m sure there’s a social-media strategy for that. After
all, these things just keep getting made, why not just send one out to a fan
every week? (Haha, assuming one has fans… which is another thing. But if
I ever get better at the Social Media Game, then maybe, sure, why not, if some
of the people I follow did this I’d always sort of live in hope that I would
win the luck draw.)</p>
<p>If I manage to sell things in the <a href="/shop">shop</a> (ever!) then I might throw one
in with every purchase of a painting. Someone did that when I bought from her
and it was a really nice gesture.</p>
<p>Or I could try to sell them for Very Cheap, at a loss really if you count my
labor – even the labor of posting it – at, say, minimum wage. But I don’t
know, it seems like the hurdle is getting people to buy art at all, and not
necessarily getting them to buy the supercheap instead of the merely
inexpensive.</p>
<p>But isn’t this a problem every painter faces, at some level? Say you’re
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-art-world/cecily-browns-attempt-to-make-impossible-art">Cecily Brown</a>.
Surely you produce more drawings – even just the keepers – than it would be
wise to put on the market?</p>
<p>No, bad example: she’s a very hard-working artist so let’s say she makes
a dozen keeper sketches a week, just counting the simple one-off things in the
studio. She’s famous enough that even if she keeps them in an archive,
the archive will some day be “gifted” to an institution and they will be
studied, and so on. And if she wanted to sell them, well, she probably doesn’t
actually need the money but let’s say – I think you could reliably sell five
a week for $10K each – her monotypes are something like $45K it seems – and neither
spoil the market nor have to bother listing them online, just let the gallery
dole them out to people waiting in line for a painting.</p>
<p>Yeah, but so then there is everyone else, and I bet you that
<a href="https://www.nicodimgallery.com/artists/katherina-olschbaur">Olschbaur</a> makes
a metric shit-ton of sketches for every finished painting. What does <em>she</em>
do with them all? Probably same-same, keep for the eventual archive and so on
as she’s well on her way to that same level of fame.
<a href="https://www.artsy.net/artwork/katherina-olschbaur-untitled-4">Oder?</a></p>
<p>I suppose I’m not solving this problem today. But really, I would rather find
homes for all these little things, than have them sit in their tiny portfolios
and little metal boxes inside bigger metal boxes inside yet-bigger metal
building-boxes. Where will it all go?</p>
<p>In closing, here is one such:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-11-03-sketch.jpg" alt="Whatevs" /> Sketch, November 2023.</p>
Eternal Sunset
2023-10-21T00:00:00+00:00
2023-10-21T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/2023-10-21/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>Back in Bangkok now, and thank the available <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_folk_religion">deities</a> for that!</p>
<p>It’s been a hard year, this year has. With some respite here and there, but
on the whole, a rough one, and not over yet. The details aren’t for public
consumption, Dear Hypothetical Reader, but trust me when I say that my
struggles with writer’s block are a tiny sideshow staged in a shoebox with
squeaky-voiced <a href="https://youtu.be/VsuSA8SWgHA?si=40_uYhg2V654_i-p">gnomes</a>
compared to the rest of my day-to-day.</p>
<p>And yet I remain eternally thankful for health, and love, and overall having
a better time of it than so many others in this conflict-ridden world. As
should you.</p>
<p>Alright, enough of an introduction, what am I really here to say today?</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-10-21-eaten.jpg" alt="Eaten by flowers." /> Los Angeles, Califronia, October 2023</p>
<hr />
<p>I recently spent some time in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and in Los Angeles, California.
Fortune smiled and I was able to visit many of the galleries and art institutions in
both of these cities.</p>
<p>LA is, of course, one of the top art capitals of the world, competing in North America
only with New York and (arguably, distantly) Mexico City. And Santa Fe is a center
of “Southwestern Art,” which usually means landscapes and cowboys and cringy
patronizing <em>Noble Savage Prays To The Sky</em> bronzes in what is, undeniably, an
ongoing site of colonization. (And not in the woke sense, but in the real,
<em>words-have-meanings</em> sense.)</p>
<p>That last point is a little weird to say out loud, but it’s true: despite being
one of the older locations of European conquest in the region, there is a freshness
to the colonial power structure that you don’t feel elsewhere. LA, by contrast,
is fully in and of the Empire now, and for better or worse that applies to everyone
in it regardless of origin. It might as well be Rome, though I suppose the New
Yorkers would argue that point just as they argue the art point.</p>
<p>In New Mexico, you still see the “Indian School” and the indigenous towns and the
casinos and the quiet, inescapable subjugation. An unfinished conquest, and may
it never finish.</p>
<p>But I’m getting ahead of myself. These two places got me thinking about
<em>ambition</em> in art. In “The Arts” if you like.</p>
<p>I’m going to sum it up thus: in LA, every actor wants to star with Tom Cruise
and every painter wants to show at <a href="https://gagosian.com/locations/beverly-hills/">Gagosian</a>
and believing you’re good enough is table stakes.</p>
<p>In Santa Fe, I don’t know, but beyond making a decent living and making the work,
I imagine the serious artists dream of owning a nice house with a view and
maybe spending winters in <a href="https://eytanuliel.com/tulum-mexico-a-visit-to-hipster-heaven/">Tulum</a>.</p>
<p>And yet you can still be very serious about the art. And you don’t have to
<em>live</em> in LA to be an LA artist, though I think it would be helpful. Look at
<a href="https://www.majaruznic.com/about">Maja Ruznic</a> for example: lives in New
Mexico, just had a big show in LA, which I happened to see and will (maybe)
write about over on <a href="https://severalartists.com/">Several Artists</a>. I can’t
say she’s an LA artist, but with a <a href="https://karmakarma.org/exhibitions/maja-ruznic-la-2023/">show</a>
like that she’s not exactly <em>not</em> an LA artist! She had a full-page ad in
ArtForum!</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-10-21-ruznic.jpg" alt="Maja Ruznic Paints Big." /> The Split/The Beginning, 2023, oil on linen, ~ 250x193cm, Maja Ruznic / Karma Gallery</p>
<hr />
<p>You can, of course, still be very serious about a landscape. One of my favorite
Instagram finds, about whom I will <em>surely</em> write more one day, and collect if
I can afford it, is
<a href="https://www.per-adolfsen.com">Per Adolfsen</a>,
who does landscapes in <em>colored pencil</em> FFS, and they are brilliant beyond compare.</p>
<p>As for me, I’m just trying to figure out what to paint that’s not scary faces,
when I can muster the energy to paint again. Soon, soon!</p>
<p>In the meantime, let’s look at a serious sunset from Santa Fe:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-10-21-finn.jpg" alt="Dakota Finn Sunset." /> Arrival Of Fragility, Acrylic on Canvas, ~ 120x120cm, Dakota Finn</p>
Heare Now
2023-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
2023-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/heare-now/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/heare-now_600x750.jpg" alt="Heare Now (acrylic on linen on HDF, 24x30cm, 2023)" /></p>
Three from Insta
2023-08-27T12:00:00+00:00
2023-08-27T12:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/2023-08-27x2/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>I normally try to keep all the images here my own original work and/or the
work of my roomful of robot “assistants,” all of them named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence">Ági</a> for some reason. But today I will depart from
this august tradition <em>(heh, get it?)</em> and swipe a few images from Instagram.
Dear Internet (Dear Artists) please forgive me, it’s for a good cause.</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="amnaj-wachirasut"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/amnad_v/">Amnaj Wachirasut</a></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/amnad_v/"><img src="/news/2023-08-27_amnad_v.jpg" alt="Painting by Amnaj Wachirasut" /></a>
Twilight / ใกล้พลบ. Oil on canvas, 125x155cm, 2023. © Amnaj Wachirasut</p>
<p>Fúú, <em>Mensch,</em> it’s been a while since I saw a painting I really really wanted
to <em>buy.</em> But here it is. (Yeah, I’m way too broke to buy it at the moment,
but mark my words: you should buy it in my place! I will buy another one.)</p>
<p>I’m not going to put them all here but go look at his
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/amnad_v/">Insta</a>
(also linked from the pic) and you will
see a plethora of quite sexy nudes – who knew that was still a thing?</p>
<p>And <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct-jB3sh0gh/">this</a> in particular, wow.
(Can a painting with a staircase not be about Duchamp? No idea.)</p>
<p>I love it when I find a painter who paints
pictures I wish I’d painted myself, but in a style so different
from my own that I won’t ever paint them by accident. In this sense, and also
in some of the very painterliness of the work, it reminds me a bit of
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/fuchstamas/">Fuchs</a>.</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="george-raftopoulos"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/g_raftopoulos/">George Raftopoulos</a></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/g_raftopoulos/"><img src="/news/2023-08-27_g_raftopolous.jpg" alt="Painting by George Raftopoulos" /></a>
SLOW (L) EARN SLOW BURN. Oil on Canvas, 198x198cm, 2023. © George Raftopoulos</p>
<p>Here’s another artist I hope to collect one day! (I guess that’s the theme for
this post, sure, why not.) I fear my walls will never be big enough for
these giant monumental things, but no worries, he’s a painter of many sizes,
which is one of the things I like about him.</p>
<p>Raftopoulos is doing the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/abstractfigurative/">abstract-figurative</a> thing full-tilt, and it’s awesome. There are a lot of
historical references in his work, and a lot of what I can only assume are
personal references too. It’s very mysterious.</p>
<p>I was actually thinking about Raftopoulos while listening to a
<a href="https://overcast.fm/+-WI_mYgw8">podcast</a> interview with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/georgiahartstudios/">Georgia Hart</a>
and contemplating my own, as-yet financially doomish art career. And the
thought that stuck was: look at George Raftopoulos! A guy my age! Sure, he’s
had a lot more shows and yadda yadda, but from <em>my</em> point of view he’s just
some dude I saw on Insta and I really liked his paintings, and now here I am
quietly promoting him, and at some point I will probably buy one of his
works. Anything is possible!</p>
<p>So there you have it. Raftopoulos rocks, now go buy <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CBIVfijgKmT">something</a> before
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/nicodimgallery/">Nicodim</a>
gets his hands on this guy!</p>
<hr />
<h2 id="christian-gonzenbach"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gonzenbachchristian/">Christian Gonzenbach</a></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gonzenbachchristian/"><img src="/news/2023-08-27_gonzenbach.jpg" alt="Sculpture by Christian Gonzenbach" /></a>
Domestication du feu (Peugeot, BB 50cc 1957). Glazed ceramic, 24x24x20cm, 2022. © Christian Gonzenbach</p>
<p>What I love about Gonzenbach is his balancing act between high-concept and
thrashing, Mitteleuropa Angst-ism, sort of like a young
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/anselm_kiefer/">Kiefer</a>
but not as nihilistic. You think I jest? Listen to the man himself:</p>
<p>“My entire work is based around the floating notion of everyday and its extraordinary banality.” – Christian Gonzenbach, 2005</p>
<p>That is from an <a href="https://www.galleryso.com/artists/35-christian-gonzenbach/">exhibition</a> of really beautiful vases.</p>
<p>Another thing that stands out with him is how playful some of the work is –
boyishly playful, Lego time, that sort of thing – and then how much implied
violence there is in other things.</p>
<p>I haven’t really collected sculpture yet. I have a few objects, and some of
my own; and I have plans to collect but they’re pretty vague. The one point
in which they are <em>not</em> vague is that if I can afford it, one day I’m buying a
Gonzenbach and putting it in my art house in Tenerife.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/amnad_v/">Wachirasut</a> and
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/g_raftopoulos/">Raftoupolos</a>
are best viewed on Instagram at the moment, but Gonzenbach has a proper web site
and you should check it out, there is a lot of work and it’s easy to browse:
<a href="https://www.gonzenbach.net/en/">GONZENBACH.NET</a></p>
<hr />
<p>And there we have it, a sort of mini-<a href="https://severalartists.com">several-artists</a>
to tide us over until the writer’s block unblocks. I should do this more
often. And we both, you and I, Dear Viewer, should get off our
corpulent backsides and go buy some art!</p>
<p>Now get to work Mr Frost, the pictures won’t paint themselves, not yet anyway.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-08-27_basta.jpg" alt="whatevs" /></p>
<hr />
Being Yourselves
2023-08-27T00:00:00+00:00
2023-08-27T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/2023-08-27/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>Art from Bangkok. Art <em>in</em> Bangkok. Time passes; I paint; and other things
happen, but the painted things remain in a way the other things do not.</p>
<p>Next month I’ll be in Santa Fe, New Mexico for the first time in my life.
First time in New Mexico, and it’s been a very long time since I was in Old
Mexico for that matter. One wonders just how much of Mexico will be in
evidence.</p>
<p>Writer’s block and other-stuff block and my block of a head is full but the
blockage won’t clear. Which is to say:
<a href="https://severalartists.com">Several Artists</a> has been stalled,
again, by my inability to write “to purpose” – which is, weirdly, mirrored by
my inability to shut up about nothing in particular.</p>
<p>(And I plan to change the format, not that this is any excuse. Turns out
nobody cares about newsletters in Bangkok.)</p>
<hr />
<p>But that’s not what I’m here for today. (Nor is the news of my plan to
resurrect <a href="https://frostopolis.com/">Frostopolis</a> what I’m here for today.)</p>
<p>Today I’m here to share the following three pictures with you, and also, in
a separate post to come, I shall call your attention, dear hypothetical reader
(and Dear Permanent Record On The Internet), to a couple of artists who are
on my mind lately. Not people I know personally, not even people whose work
I know personally; I’ll be linking to Insta for this one. So stay tuned,
dear <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank">PageRank</a> pigeons, more is on
the way forthwitherly!</p>
<p>(Yes, since you asked, I <em>do</em> rather enjoy the thoroughly inconsequential
nature of this non-blog. The freedom to be pointless, with the reality that
it’s out there in the world, floating forever in the sea of bits.)</p>
<hr />
<p><img src="/news/2023-08-27-self0.jpg" alt="The Studio." /></p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-08-27-self1.jpg" alt="The Self." /></p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-08-27-self2.jpg" alt="About the Self." /></p>
Jeder Mensch
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/jeder-mensch/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>More time passes… the business-business is done in principle but not in fact
and one stares at the Atlantic Ocean, waiting and thinking and planning. But
mostly just staring.</p>
<p>Yesterday I told Alberto: my vision is almost complete, and then it will be
like the old joke about sculpture: take a piece of marble and just cut away
the parts that don’t look like a horse.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-07-25-horse.png" alt="The AI done it." /></p>
<p>This is of course a lot less true of a house, and of land, than it is of a
sculpture. I’m no <a href="https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/gordon-matta-clark">Matta-Clark</a>,
I need the additive approach, and also we have no choice but to improvise. But we’re getting close!</p>
<p>So then this morning, early, sharing my room with a dead mouse <em>(bio!)</em> –
I got to thinking, as one does, about where people lose their creativity.</p>
<p>I firmly believe every human has vast creative capacity, and a pretty good
ability to express that. Some exceptions are surely present but we can call
them anomalies, call them differently abled if we like. A baseline human can
fucking draw! Can sculpt!</p>
<p>But what? Well, children’s stuff. And then some people have exraordinary
talent and most don’t, but 99% of actual pictorial art you encounter in the
art world today is by people who are not the extraordinary talents. They have
normal talents, as do I, and bless their hearts they <em>work</em> to develop those
talents.</p>
<p>But what about the rest? Why don’t people just continue making funky drawings
and making faces in the mud and imagining worlds that might not, technically
speaking, exist? (But might!)</p>
<p>My intuition, and it’s strong in these parts, tells me there are three ways
out of healthy human creativity.</p>
<p><strong>ONE:</strong> Your parents beat it out of you.</p>
<p><strong>TWO:</strong> Poverty beats it out of you.</p>
<p><strong>THREE:</strong> The institutions of modern life beat it out of you.</p>
<p>I will generously include “rich twats who are bad people from a young age and
appear to have no human spirit” in the third category
because there are many institutions that are comfortable, gilded, and also
soul-destroying.</p>
<p>Now, dear phantasmagoric readers, I have to run, the ocean needs staring at.</p>
<p>Remember: <strong>Jeder Mensch Ein Künstler!</strong> Jeder! Fucking! Mensch!</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-07-25-beuys.png" alt="Beuys Don’t Cry" /> Beuys Don’t Cry, B&W analog photograph of original sculpture, ca 18x24cm, mixed media on copper plate, Tübingen 1992.</p>
Who’ll Start the Rain?
2023-06-18T00:00:00+00:00
2023-06-18T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/who-start-rain/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>Oh JFC on a popsicle satick, did a month just go by? ฟาาาาากมี! So to speak.</p>
<p>Many things have happened, but the big things – the business things – have
not, so I’m still holding on by the thread of my karma, with friends propping
me up until they can’t. To all those friends: <em>¡gracias!</em></p>
<p>And yet we are here to talk about art, right? Sure, let’s talk about art
tonight! But never start with yourself, or at least not always.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago I went to an opening that was, let’s say, a bit aloney-baloney
for me as I was flying solo and it was very much full of people who were not;
but it was also the most “opening-like” opening I’d been to in ages. Shout
out to <a href="https://playarthouse.com">PLAY art house</a> for pulling it off, it was
just oozing professionalism, and it was a great comeback for place that had
gone very very mellow during the pandemic’s soft opening. 🎭🎨🏠 FTW!</p>
<p>Right, so I was there, in lovely Talat Noi, aka ตลาดน้อย, to see work by one
<a href="https://www.treyhurst.com">Trey Hurst</a>, a fellow American whose work I first
saw at River City Bangkok a while back. I’m probably going to feature him in
<a href="https://severalartists.com">Several Artists</a> but I’m already behind on the
current issue, so let’s not overpromise here.</p>
<p>Trey Hurst makes work like this:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-06-18-treyhurst.jpg" alt="Artwork by Trey Hurst, 2023" /></p>
<p>I find it super interesting, and I <em>absolutely</em> commend him for making work
in 2023 that is at once so process-specific and so traditionally graphic.
(Some of the work is less traditional, but everything in the show could be
put on your wall and look good there. At fair prices no less, as opposed to
art-fair prices! Oh wait, I actually bought art at an art fair, what am I
talking about?)</p>
<p>Sorry for the cheapiPhone picture quality there; I did take the EOS R and the
crazy-ass psychotic fucking ADHD 16mm lens (oh, now <em>there</em> is a vlog for
someone to do) – and when (if?) I do a proper writeup I’ll include some proper
photographs, it’s the least I can do.</p>
<p>Anyway, hey, I digress, I’ve considered at times whether I ought better to
digress for a living, but it hasn’t come to that. But as long as I’m
digressing, droning on
– OMFG should I talk about drones now? <em>Must! Stop!</em> – I’ve been wondering
lately: do people still check linkbacks?</p>
<p>I don’t, or at least I haven’t in a trillion years of understatement, but I
think maybe I should. After all, this crazy post is now part of Mr. Hurst’s
permanent record, right? OK then! Let it be that! From an audience of none
to the long tail of all futures, converging in the emergent brain-behavior of
some AI hidden behind banks of <a href="https://paglen.studio">Trevor Paglen</a>
RADAR <a href="https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2020/10/27/a-front-line-of-defense-the-758th-radar-squadron-and-the-makah-air-force-station-neah-bay-washington-1950-1988/">stations</a> – here we are, making up the hive-mind aesthetics, for
if not us, who?</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-06-18-treyhurst2.jpg" alt="More Artwork by Trey Hurst, 2023" /></p>
<p>(Reflections, yep. Where do you even get museum glass in these parts?)</p>
<p>Coming back to the pictures: you can go to his
<a href="https://www.treyhurst.com">site</a> and see video of the painstaking zennish
squeegee-like process of snaking, er, making these pictures. I’m especially
happy to see an <em>Amcsi</em> doing this kind of work, because I think it’s much
more common, and much more accepted, in Europe these days. For instance, if
I were to tell you one
<a href="https://www.museochillidaleku.com">Chillida</a>
is worth all the <a href="https://gagosian.com/artists/jeff-koons/">Koonses</a>
in the whole wide world plus a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Moore">Henry Moore</a> thrown in for
good measure, in America you’d think I was crazy; in England you’d want to
fight me; and in Europe you’d grant me the point even if you didn’t agree.</p>
<p>I’ve done some zennified processy stuff myself, albeit long ago; and at some
level I’m still a Modernist, so I can relate to this kind of working more than
my recent portfolio would suggest.</p>
<p>I have a strong feeling I’ll be back to write more about Trey Hurst, but for
now I will leave you with the above pictures and links. I don’t know the man
personally, but I’m glad he’s here.</p>
<p>(Oh and I can’t resist: if you like this kind of art then you really must
check out <a href="https://www.instagram.com/luciamoya_grafica/?hl=en">Luciya Moya</a>,
you can thank me later.)</p>
<hr />
<p>Maybe I should use this pseudoblog as a venue for informal, anything-goes show
reviews. But probably not: I need at least one informal, anything-goes site
for just whatever <em>TF</em> I want to be on about, with no limitations, but still
trying to keep it vaguely art-related and original.</p>
<p>And, frankly, I want the option to be self-indulgent, in all senses –
visually, verbally, thematically, <em>whateverly.</em></p>
<p>Here’s a picture I find a little self-indulgent:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-06-18-wtf-dude.jpg" alt="WtF dude?" /></p>
<p>Yeah, I guess that’s me. Or mine, anyway. I did title it, but I can’t be
bothered to go into the other room and look it up. It’ll make the sale bin
eventually, I reckon, because while I can’t decide if it’s <em>good</em> exactly, I
do find it <em>interesting</em> and think that should be enough.</p>
<p>Here it’s been a month, and while I’ve been way too stressed out to deal with
a proper Studio Practice (as the kids like to call it) – still I’ve been
working, and even if I occasionally (as in, today) turn one blue into another
blue and make the picture slightly worse in the process, at least I’m making
pictures, and that’s what the world needs us to do. Until the AI can
reorganize society into a cult of inimitable creative minds. Haha just
kidding. Maybe.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-06-18-possible.png" alt="IT IS POSSIBLE" /></p>
Rough is Rauh
2023-05-18T00:00:00+00:00
2023-05-18T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/rough-rau/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>Funny thing about watercolor paper, well funny for me anyway: I have, for as long as I can remember knowing anything about the difference between the different kinds of watercolor papers, preferred the <em>grana satinada</em> – hot-pressed “satin grain” that most of you probably know by
its French name and its premier brand: none other than Arches, which is
to say the high-end brand owned by <a href="https://en.canson.com">Canson</a>.</p>
<p>And high-end it is! Which is why I started buying Baohong Paper, and
that’s a cheaper brand that’s pretty similar and anyway plenty good enough for a mere Working Artist. I would link to their home page, but
in two years of trying I haven’t found one. WTF? OK, just keep making
the paper and I won’t complain.</p>
<p>But right now, as long as I’m here, I wish to say something about the
Rough, the Rauh, the <em>Grain Torchon.</em> Because it’s growing on me.</p>
<p>I used to keep a ratio of about 4:2:1 on hand, with the “4” being simple
cold-pressed fine-grain stuff because it’s cheaper; “2” being the fancy
satin stuff that is oh so forgiving of a hand born to draw wielding the
brush; and the “1” being the rough stuff for experiments.</p>
<p>But for a while now I’ve been experimenting with some new techniques on
the rough end, and just letting myself go because I don’t think of it as
the main paper. And frankly the larger sizes are still beyond me – here I’m talking about 23x31 and thereabouts.</p>
<p>And I’m here to say, on this quiet Thursday night of painting in กรุงเทพ,
that I’m getting pretty excited about the possibilities. Yes, there is a
greater risk of failure with every application of the paint. And yes,
that’s a little hard to deal with if you’re on a budget, because <em>shitty</em>
“rough” watercolor paper is never, ever your friend.</p>
<p>But with the good stuff, when you make it through alive: whooooa, this is
some heavy saturation. Picture here is probably not finished, but if it
is then let’s remember that it’s Baohong Artist’s Watercolor Paper, 300g,
23x31cm, and the paint used is a variety of watercolors plus one quick
shot of <a href="https://www.molotow.com/en/product-series/marker-refills">Molotow</a> for the mouth. Painters: <em>always keep a few Molotows handy!</em></p>
<p>Your reward, Dear Reader, for finding this post; and mine for trusting this paper:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-05-18-baohong.jpg" alt="Untitled" /></p>
<p>PS: once upon a time, in a gallery in Berlin Mitte, I saw a
<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=emil+nolde+nordsee&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images">Nolde</a> seascape on <em>rauh</em> and it was nothing but a sketch, around
30x40cm, surely knocked off in minutes. At 40,000 EUR it was one of
the greatest bargains I’ve ever seen in a commercial gallery.
<em>Nur für Kenner</em> as they might say, and pricey, but: คุ้มค่า!</p>
Mayo
2023-05-17T00:00:00+00:00
2023-05-17T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/mayo/
Kevin Frost, Artist
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<p>Ah, May… may it be May forever, if only because I’m about to hit another
wall at the end of May and it may be a hard one indeed. Giving
<a href="/news/cruelish-april/">April</a> a run for its money, that’s what it’s doing.
I will save my reasons why until a later date, at which I hope to expound in
a more visual medium on the travails of the last few weeks. But I will say
one thing: when you have a culture that doesn’t view lying as a major
character flaw, and liars as to be shunned, then sooner or later you are
gonna end up with <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=k%C3%B6v%C3%A9r+orb%C3%A1n+viktor&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images">this</a>. (And alas, my home country is barreling towards
a more dangerous version of <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trump+fat+face&t=h_&iax=images&ia=images">same same</a> but right
at this moment, that’s not my complaint.)</p>
<p>OK, so what about the mayo? Hold it? Noooo, no no no, do not hold the mayo!</p>
<p>Today as I was dealing with my latest setback I couldn’t decide what to stuff
into my own fat face in search of temporary comfort, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FamilyMart">TiT</a> as they say, so
there were options and I opted for several of them. One of which was a “ham”
and “cheese” “sandwich” – I expected the worst, of course. Budget airline
fare.</p>
<p>But ya know what? <em>It was awesome!</em> And by <em>awesome</em> I mean terrible, but in
a good way. A bit of hamlike substance and a bit of cheeselike substance –
dare I say American Cheese? – glued to its breadlike outer layer with nothing
less than <em>addictive</em> – yes, you guessed it – <a href="https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a82884/how-to-make-mayonnaise/"><strong>MAYONNAISE!</strong></a></p>
<p>So there’s that.</p>
<p>And also, somewhere in a 4x4 (meters, natch) storage space somewhere in
Budapest, there’s this:</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-05-18_figure_one.jpg" alt="A Berlin Thing" /> Figure One, oil on plywood, Berlin 2010</p>
<p>I’ve had that painting on so many walls. Starting with its birthplace, in
<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsviertel">Winsstraße</a> in Berlin. But also in Budapest in at least two, maybe three, maybe
even four locations. The photo doesn’t do it justice, because I’m really bad
at shooting artwork. (Except in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_de_Saint_Phalle">Niki de Saint Phalle</a> way, I’m pretty OK at that
as long as the range is close.)</p>
<p>But the thing is, this is also part of the embarrassingly large section of my
work I should perhaps dub <em>The Disturbing Room</em> – because that’s what it will
be in when the world wakes up to my genius and builds a museum in my honor on
every single continent, and/or Elon Musk formally adopts me and names me
XrostX.</p>
<p>I find myself trying to make less freaky work, only to end up making <em>more</em>
freaky work, at least lately. But I will persist, for a reason as simple as
it is complicating: most people don’t want to look at freaky shit every day, and
that genius-recognition thing is probably not in the works just yet.</p>
<p>Some of my absolute favorite artists have made unfathomably brilliant work
that, even if I were some <a href="https://www.mutualart.com/Article/Great-Art-Heists-of-History--Masked-Gunm/57446D274B545839">Yakuza Shogun</a> collecting on behalf of an
<a href="https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae">Arab Sheikh</a> and could thus acquire it for
my endless gratification, I would not want to see every day before breakfast.</p>
<p>But hey – the next year will be amazing, and yield some great new art, it’s just
a bit of a rough ride. พฤษภาคม can eff the eff off. Onward!</p>
DogGPT
2023-05-10T00:00:00+00:00
2023-05-10T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/doggpt/
Kevin Frost, Artist
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<p><em>The following art review was written by <a href="https://chat.openai.com">ChatGPT</a>
in response to the prompt “You are an art historian. Review an exhibition of watercolors of purebred dogs by the artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Ford">Walton Ford</a>.” The image is by <a href="https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-public-release">Stable Diffusion</a>
with the same prompt minus the first word.</em></p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-05-10_doggpt.jpg" alt="Not Walton Ford!" /></p>
<p>Exhibition Review: Watercolors of Purebred Dogs by Walton Ford</p>
<p>As an art historian, I had the pleasure of attending the exhibition featuring watercolors of purebred dogs by the renowned artist Walton Ford. Known for his meticulous attention to detail and his ability to capture the essence of wildlife in his work, Ford’s exploration of purebred dogs brings a unique perspective to the world of canine art.</p>
<p>Walking into the exhibition space, I was immediately struck by the vibrant and lifelike qualities of Ford’s watercolor paintings. Each piece exuded a sense of energy and presence, as if the dogs themselves were about to leap off the paper. The artist’s mastery of the watercolor medium was evident in his precise brushwork and the delicate layers of translucent color that created a remarkable depth and texture.</p>
<p>One aspect that stood out in Ford’s portrayal of purebred dogs was his ability to capture the individual characteristics and personalities of each breed. Whether it was the regal poise of a Great Dane, the playful exuberance of a Labrador Retriever, or the alertness of a Border Collie, Ford’s attention to detail was astonishing. He skillfully depicted the distinct features, expressions, and body language that define each breed, allowing viewers to connect with the unique qualities of these beloved companions.</p>
<p>In addition to the technical brilliance, Ford’s watercolors conveyed a deeper narrative. Through his artwork, he explored the concept of selective breeding and its impact on the physical traits and well-being of purebred dogs. The artist juxtaposed the inherent beauty and charm of these dogs with the potential consequences of excessive breeding practices, such as health issues and physical deformities. This thoughtful approach added a layer of social commentary to the exhibition, encouraging viewers to contemplate the ethics surrounding the breeding and ownership of purebred dogs.</p>
<p>The exhibition itself was thoughtfully curated, with the paintings displayed in a spacious and well-lit environment that allowed each artwork to shine. Accompanying the paintings were informative labels detailing the breed, the historical context, and providing additional insights into the artist’s intentions. This thoughtful presentation further enhanced the viewing experience, fostering a deeper appreciation for the subject matter and Ford’s artistic process.</p>
<p>In conclusion, Walton Ford’s exhibition of watercolors showcasing purebred dogs was a captivating exploration of the beauty, diversity, and complexity of these animals. His technical prowess, attention to detail, and ability to evoke emotion through his art were truly impressive. Beyond the aesthetic pleasure, the exhibition encouraged viewers to reflect on the broader issues surrounding the breeding and treatment of purebred dogs. It was an engaging and thought-provoking experience that left a lasting impression on visitors, and a testament to Ford’s skill as an artist and storyteller.</p>
<h3 id="postscript">Postscript</h3>
<p>This has nothing to do with Walton Ford, of course, and I quite like a lot of
his work. What this is about it Large Language Models, of which ChatGPT is
the top, er, dog at the moment; and how they will wreak havoc in cultural
circles in a way the NFT bros barely dared to dream of.</p>
<p>Inspiration for this came from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jerry_gogosian_stoveworks/?hl=en">Jerry Gogosian</a> and Matt Capasso complaining about
<a href="https://gagosian.com/artists/alex-israel/">Alex Israel</a> using ChatGPT to write his press release.</p>
<p>As writing, this is pretty much anodyne crap, but is it any worse than your
average catalog essay? I say it is not! Maybe ChatGPT will bring such a
deluge of bad writing, that real-life bad writing will have nowhere to hide.
That’s my optimistic take.</p>
April: Cruellest Month?
2023-05-02T00:00:00+00:00
2023-05-02T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/cruelish-april/
Kevin Frost, Artist
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<p>April was a stressful month for me & mine, and then it was a
very good month, and then suddenly it became a very very bad
month. A cruel month. The <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land">cruellest</a>?</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-05-02-fishface.jpg" alt="April looked like this." /> OT / Fishface, 2022 I think, MM/paper, about 18x24cm. April ended up looking like this.</p>
<p>I had some business lined up, and it was going to have a big
positive effect on the Art Machine and also kickstart the
residency project. It’s been a stressful year: this business
was supposed to happen last summer, at the very latest, and I’ve
been living week by week since then. More debt, less art.</p>
<p>So there was optimism! There was an agreement! There was a
contract ready to sign! Everything was thumbs-up and ready to
go!</p>
<p>And then the asshat I was naïve enough to
be doing the business with backed out, for reasons of previously
undisclosed illiquidity, two days before the signing. Insult to injury: this egotist who’d just spend ten days misleading
us about his liquidity, and who’d just wasted the time of no
fewer then five people, had the gall to call down pity from the
Gods because he spent a few quid on <em>his</em> lawyer after all.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-05-02-goog.jpg" alt="Have one Sataaaaaman" /> Google is Not Your Friend, 18x24cm alkyd on HDF, Budapest 2019 (IIRC).</p>
<p>He looks like this. ☝🏽</p>
<p>So yeah, right, anyway it was a hell of a month, a Hell Month,
but now it’s another and the verdict is still out on this one.
My agent and I now have, I suppose, about two weeks to find
another partner and get a contract signed, and while
<em>challenging</em> this is not impossible.</p>
<p>And there is much to be thankful for, even in a bad month. My
lovely girlfriend; the friends who help me reconstruct my nose
after I slam into the wall (metaphorically of course); the early rains portending the monsoon; the
hot tropical nights; and of course the paintings: the paintings
may slow down, but they don’t stop.</p>
<p>Oh, and dear Whoever May Read This In Close To Real Time: I
<em>swear</em> I will get the next <a href="https://severalartists.com">Several Artists</a> out this week! Come Hell Week or
High Water Week!</p>
<p>Meanwhile I am hoping to get over to the <a href="https://www.mangoartfestival.com">Mango Art Festival</a> twice this week and post some
things about that here and on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/biztigram/">Insta</a>.</p>
<p>In parting, Dear Aether, consider these glory days, when the vast
new possibilities unfolding inside our pockets were mostly about
optimistic things, and there were Art Apps in the App Store, and
we didn’t think we’d all be staring at these fucking things all
day every day nor taking duckface selfies at the art museum.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-05-02-iphone3.png" alt="ไอ็๊โฟน" /></p>
<p>Not sure I’ll ever forgive them for barring us from running plain old
<a href="https://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> on these.</p>
Starman
2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/starman/
Kevin Frost, Artist
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<p>Songkran is ending and here’s a little painting from 2014 that is currently
in storage somewhere in Europe, at a storage facility that had all its
customer data stolen by hackers, because of course it did, it’s 2023.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-04-15-starman.jpg" alt="Have one Sataaaaaman" /> Starman, 24x30cm, oil on linen on HDF, Budapest 2014</p>
<p>I’ve always had mixed feelings about this painting. On the one hand, it’s
definitely <em>got</em> something; on the other hand, it doesn’t particularly fit in
with my overall body of work. It’s a bit too dimensional for the abstract
figurative stuff, and way too figurative for the purely abstract work, and
it isn’t exactly conceptual despite the nod to Mr. Bowie. And I admit that
the palette-knifery is a little unsubtle. And really, does it look a bit like
a <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=manuel+neri&t=hx&va=t&iax=images&ia=images">Manuel Neri</a>?</p>
<p>On the other hand, yeah, it’s got something, though I don’t rule out taking
another crack at that lack-of-face. In real life you don’t see the brushwork
so much, but still.</p>
<p>Alrighty then, what does the AI think of this?</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-04-15-starman2.jpg" alt="He wait in sky" /> Stable Diffusion Img2Img; Prompt: “Starman”</p>
<p>Whoa, that’s a trip. I think I feel a series coming on.</p>
The Dog Ate My...
2023-04-13T00:00:00+00:00
2023-04-13T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/covid-dog/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<h3 id="swasdiiwansngkraantthukkhn">สวัสดีวันสงกรานต์ทุกคน!</h3>
<h3 id="happy-songkran-everyone">Happy Songkran everyone!</h3>
<p>This is the one day of the year when I think my own Hawai’ian shirts are not
loud enough in Thailand. But it’s a tricky week for the GF and me money-wise,
so we are not going all-out on travel (with its high risk of
<a href="https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2548525/27-killed-287-injured-on-first-day-of-songkran-travel">road death</a> or even water fights
(high risk of having to walk home in the 39C heat because you’re too soaked
to get on BTS). Might hop up to
<a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/576">Ayutthaya</a>
and look at the temples though!</p>
<p>But, I digress! I’m here to talk about the dog that eats your homework.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-04-13-aibo.jpg" alt="Grillable?" /></p>
<p>In 2023, this dog is named <strong>Covid</strong> – though I don’t think we really know
whether it ought to be named Covid 19 or Covid 23 or perhaps Covid Poohbear
(credit where it’s due, 💩 for me and Pooh for you).</p>
<p>Unofortunately there will be no such excuse naming our new Insect Overlords,
the Generative AIs, because they are, well: generative. The robot ate your
homework? Then why did it <em>write</em> everyone else’s?</p>
<p>(As an aside, I hear tell, whispered rumours in the Innernets, that these days
every school kid in America is using ChatGPT to write their homework
assignments, except for some poor saps who are trying to actually learn
something in school, and those are getting the lower grades. Brave new world!)</p>
<p>Having had three shots of Pfizer and at least two bouts of Covid by now, I
think I’m where most of us reasonable, vaxxed-up people are: it sucks, but
it’s only a week, and as long as your existence is not so precarious that you
can’t drop out for a week without losing everything (sometimes it’s close!)
then you’re basically gonna be fine. The bigger risk would seem to be this:
I was quite sick but if it were a case of work or starve, I could have worked
all but one of the days I was sick, plus of course all the days I was being a
good boy and staying away from people after testing negative. I’m sure this
happens a lot.</p>
<h3 id="to-the-point-now">To the point now…</h3>
<p><em>(Ha! One of the nice things about a blog-type platform that basically nobody
ever reads is you can ramble all you want. But even this ramblin’ man needs to
get to the point eventually, if only so he can get back to other forms of
procrastination.)</em></p>
<p>The point is that <a href="https://severalartists.com">Several Artists</a> Issue #2 is
late, and the main reason it’s late is that I was knocked out with Covid N
just when I was about to write it up. And then I was busy with other things,
and didn’t have my third artist yet, and had a bit of writer’s block, and the
other usual crap.</p>
<p>Therefore, dear Potential Reader, fret not! Issue #2 is coming very soon, if
I have a chance I’ll write it up this weekend, and it’s going to feature three
very interesting Thai contemporary abstractionists.</p>
<p>And maybe I will try to rush out Issue #3 before the end of April, so I can
at least tell myself I’m <em>sort-of</em> sticking to the monthly schedule.</p>
<p>Oh and a final note, into the void, more to myself than anyone else: if you
have an art collection, <em>dammit,</em> you should have it catalogued on the web!
I’m so tired of people talking up their collections on, say,
<a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/art-smack-jerry-gogosian-7C_4ovqmgpw/">Art Smack</a>, and not having any way to go look at
what the hell they’re actually doing.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-04-13-gallery-books.jpg" alt="Stackable?" /></p>
<p>Right. Back to work now.</p>
Farm World
2023-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
2023-03-31T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/farm-world/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>My lovely girlfriend has a lovely farm in a lovely place far away. So do I,
actually! Her farm is bigger and more of a real farm, while my farm is just
the farm part of an art center I’m building (was building, until I ran out of
money; will start building again). But I have a view of the ocean from my
farm, so that’s something. You can get from one farm to the other in two days
if you time it just right, but I’m way too old for that pace of travel.</p>
<p>So anyway we both have farms, and farms are for farming, and that leads to
some interesting conversations about <em>what to grow.</em></p>
<p>This is only tangentially related to the question of <em>what you want to eat.</em></p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-03-30-nenad-grillcard.png" alt="Grillables" /></p>
<p>Pigs, for example? Yeah, I like to eat pigs. But under no circumstances do
I wish to deal with the complexities of <em>raising</em> pigs. 🤠🐽💩 nope.</p>
<p>Fortunately for me, my favorite land animal for eating is a small dinosaur
native to this region, here called <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%9A%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99&t=hy&va=t&iar=images&iaf=type%3Aphoto&iax=images&ia=images">Gai Baan</a> ( ไก่บ้าน ) or “house chicken.”</p>
<p>Now <em>this</em> is a possibility – and some of the best chicken in the world is
to be had around there already, so it shouldn’t be hard to get the farm
workers to buy in on it. After all, they get free eggs and an occasional
fryer, so why wouldn’t they?</p>
<p>Plus it turns out chicken 💩 is an ongoing requirement for the fruit trees.</p>
<h3 id="still-life-with-lunch">Still Life With Lunch</h3>
<p>As an artist, you’re always looking for the art angle. We’re single-minded,
relentless fuckers that way, even when we’re trying to play nice with
<a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/louise-bourgeois-spider-sculptures-history-1202687603/">bourgeois</a> society. Which brings
me, in my typically roundabout manner, to the point of this little update.</p>
<p><em>What are the ethics of painting your lunch?</em></p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-03-31-hiepes-prado.jpg" alt="Lunch is On" /></p>
<p>(That’s <a href="https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/still-life-with-birds-and-hares/8a96d6df-c28e-4dfa-8e09-e9bbf1495101">Tomás Hiepes</a> painting his lunch in 1643. He was a big eater. Probably
even fatter than me. Courtesy of El Prado, which just gets better and better.)</p>
<p>I think it, er, boils down to what you paint, and when.</p>
<p><strong>Generally acceptable: plants.</strong> Nobody sheds a tear for the banana! I blame
Andy Warhol. This is good news because I’m only growing plants on my farm,
in fact the only thing we have in surplus right now is lemons. Girlfriend Farm
is mostly going to be tropical fruit. So the ethics police are probably going
to leave me alone on this, though the waistline police might not be so easy.</p>
<p><strong>Morally Okey Dokey: cooked animals.</strong> Likewise, if it’s already cooked and I’m
gonna eat it, or you are, or the cat is anyway, then I can paint it, right?
Seems cut and dry. Cut and dried? Cured and cut? Uh-oh, salami is its own
category and I’m running out of time here.</p>
<p><strong>Probably Fine Too: uncooked animals that are already dead.</strong> This is getting
into the tricky area. On the one hand, if you’re going to eat them anyway,
what’s the difference? On the other hand, who’s to say you didn’t kill them
in order to paint them, and then just eat them because you were too lazy to
go down to the 7-11 for a “<a href="https://live-less-ordinary.com/7-11-food-in-bangkok-thailand-cheap/">sandwich</a>?” Well in our case we get a pass on
this because neither farm is within walking distance of a 7-11, and considering
one of the farms is in Thailand that speaks volumes on its remoteness. We
must live off the land, sometimes!</p>
<p><strong>Tricky: live animals you are going to eat later.</strong> Ah, now this is the
real moral dilemma! Are we raising the animals to paint them, or to eat them?
If we keep them in order to paint them, isn’t it cruel to then go and eat
them? Is our art not stained in blood? I don’t know. At some point, maybe
yes? It depends, I think, on the animal: if you are raising cows and you
paint your cows and then you kill your cows and eat them, it seems like the
cows are getting a raw deal. So to speak.</p>
<p>But in our case I’m not worried, because the lean little dinos I plan to eat
would turn around and eat us in a second if they were large enough. And paint
us too if they had hands.</p>
<p><strong>Unfairly Exempted: fish.</strong> What is it with you mammal-and-bird people?!
Did you take <a href="https://youtu.be/1YhR5UfaAzM">Nirvana</a> literally about the fish?
Anyway you can pretty much go out to the pond, find the intellectual leader of
the local fish community, take him out of the water, club him to death, paint
your effing masterpiece, and throw his carcass right back in. Nobody cares.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-03-31-ai-koi.jpg" alt="AI Fishes" /></p>
<p><strong>Unknown territory: bugs.</strong> The squeamish West has no guidance on this: we’re
afraid of bugs, so killing them might be good; but we don’t eat them, so eating
them must be bad; but we only paint them for scientific purposes so they must
be important and shouldn’t suffer; but the scientist-artists can just impale
them on tiny spikes and watch them die in agony, that’s cool too. Crazytown!
At least in Thailand people eat bugs, so if your lunch is bugs and you want to
paint it, nobody’s going to be freaked out.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-03-31-ai-bugs.jpg" alt="AI Bugs" /></p>
<p>All very <em>TBD</em> of course. Yes, those last two illustrations are from the
pet AI. Ever wonder what it looks like to itself? If all you have are
mirrors, how do you know what you look like?</p>
<h1 id="cut-of-meat">🥩</h1>
Thinkers
2023-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
2023-02-20T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/thinkers/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<h3 id="human">Human:</h3>
<p><em>What theory of intelligence allows for a large language model to evolve into an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence">AGI</a>?</em></p>
<h3 id="chatgpt"><a href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/">ChatGPT</a>:</h3>
<p>There is no single theory of intelligence that directly supports the idea that a large language model can evolve into an artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, there are several theories and approaches to AI that contribute to our understanding of the potential capabilities and limitations of language models and their potential to evolve into AGI.</p>
<p>One such theory is the idea of “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition">embodied cognition</a>,” which suggests that intelligence arises from the interaction of an agent with its environment. This theory emphasizes the importance of perception, action, and physical experience in the development of intelligent behavior. While large language models like ChatGPT do not have physical bodies, they are capable of processing large amounts of textual data, and some researchers have suggested that these models could be combined with other AI systems that have sensory and motor capabilities in order to create more embodied AGI.</p>
<p>Another approach to understanding AGI is through the study of cognitive architectures, which are theoretical frameworks that aim to capture the fundamental mechanisms of intelligent behavior. Some cognitive architectures, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT-R">ACT-R</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soar_(cognitive_architecture)">SOAR</a>, emphasize the importance of knowledge representation and reasoning in intelligent behavior, which are also key components of large language models like ChatGPT. By integrating these knowledge-based systems with other AI approaches that can perform perception and action, it may be possible to create more general and flexible intelligent agents.</p>
<p>Ultimately, the question of whether a large language model can evolve into an AGI is a complex one that depends on a variety of factors, including the architecture of the model, the nature of the task it is performing, and the context in which it is deployed. While there is still much research to be done in this area, it is clear that advances in language modeling are driving new innovations in AI, and may ultimately contribute to the development of more sophisticated and capable intelligent systems.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-02-20-thinkers.png" alt="Thinkers" /></p>
Who is this creature?
2023-02-10T00:00:00+00:00
2023-02-10T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/who/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<h3 id="who-is-this-creature">Who is this creature?</h3>
<p><img src="/news/2023-02-10-creature.png" alt="Strange Being" /></p>
<p>He (or she?) is just an excerpt from my almost-finished ink-on-paper
sketchbook (i.e., a sketchbook with real sketches for once).</p>
<p>But he (or it?) is also an interesting case for testing graphics. Pardon the
geekout to follow.</p>
<hr />
<p>Because I am lazy and don’t own a scanner anyway, I just shot this on my
iPhone, and then used Photoshop to nuke the background. Looked great on a
white background, nice and crisp. Then I sent it out in a newsletter and it
showed up looking very wonky indeed on a black background. Welcome to Night
Mode!</p>
<p>Let’s see, can I embed HTML here? Should work:</p>
<div style="padding: 20px; background: black; width: 50%; margin: 0px auto">
<img src="/news/2023-02-10-creature.png" width="200px">
</div>
<p>There we go. Let this be a lesson to you, or at least to me: with Select
Color Range comes great power, but also great responsibility!</p>
<p><em>(Beneficial side effect of sticking HTML in your Markdown: you now have at
least one adversarial user-content test case for your future md2xyz converter!)</em></p>
<p>Which is an extremely roundabout way, Dear Probably Nonexistent Reader of This
News Item, to announce the announcement of my new Newsletter of New Art:</p>
<p><a href="https://severalartists.com">Several Artists</a> will launch next week! I swear
it will! I have set a goal! And a deadline!</p>
<p>Specifically, re: the latter, I am going to an expat art-people schmoozefest
next week, and I am using that as a kick in the pants to actually get this
thing done. I’m even having business cards made, since this is Asia and I am
informed people still do that. Which is good news, I always lose the ones I
pocket but I still love having them.</p>
<p>I am resisting the temptation to put the design here. Must! Resist!</p>
<p>Funny thing: shouting into the void is fun sometimes, especially when combined
with the Internetty problem of Your Permanent Record. Makes an artist wonder
if, say, Picasso – or Jon Lovitz playing Picasso – ever was able to just
riff on shit without considering what the art historians would do with it…</p>
<p>At least he didn’t have to worry about omnipresent video recorders. Now
<em>that</em> is a skit waiting to be done. Although, given current trends in art and
the other thing, it would probably want to also involve Matisse, his daughter,
and some <a href="https://melissa-ong.com">step-chicken</a> jokes. Um, that might be NSF
your W if you work in a humorless place. You have been warned!</p>
<p>Alrighty then. Here’s one more crazy picture and that’s it for today. You can
get the newsletter at the gettin’ place. Recommend!</p>
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Happy New Year(s)
2023-01-25T00:00:00+00:00
2023-01-25T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/happy-new-years/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<h3 id="happy-various-new-years">Happy Various New Years!</h3>
<p>I’m late for the Western one, but less late for the Serbian Orthodox one, and
just about on time for the Chinese one! Year of the Wabbit!</p>
<p>Here in Thailand it’s 2566 already, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaowarat_Road">Yaowarat</a> is going strong, and for all the economic and social troubles it’s going to be a great year for art, I can tell that already.</p>
<p>And while I do wish I could have attended <a href="https://artsg.com">Art SG</a>, and I <em>might</em>
but probably will not make it to <a href="https://www.ifema.es/en/arco/madrid">ARCO Madrid</a> this year, I think the big new trend in art will be <em>more Art closer to the People.</em></p>
<p>If you live in the West it might be easy to be jaded and see the global rich continuing to cast their insatiable maw upon millenial figurative painters from <a href="https://www.artbasel.com">Basel</a> to <a href="https://gagosianshop.com">New York</a> and back again.</p>
<p>But there’s so much more going on! (For a bit of the jaded take, seasoned with a lot of love and optimism, you should check out Jerry Gogosian’s <a href="https://www.artsmackpodcast.com">Art Smack</a> podcast.)</p>
<p>Over here, we still have the <a href="https://www.bkkartbiennale.com">Bangkok Biennale</a> going, and it’s showing lots of great art to lots of people every day for free!</p>
<p>And we have more and more exhibitions and events, more and more public interest in art, and thanks to the surging revival of tourism, we can hope to have more and more of the kinds of art sales that really help local artists – by putting food on the table, and art on the wall!</p>
<p>We also have a marked increase in high-level patronage of contemporary art in the last year. I will eventually write more about that, but for now let’s just consider that, thanks to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Group">Central Group</a>, the immensely talented <a href="https://www.kawitav.com">Kawita Vatanajyankur</a> may be the most-viewed artist of her generation, worldwide.</p>
<p>On my end, in addition to making art and seeing shows, I have plans to do more
writing. I will soft-launch my newsletter <a href="https://severalartists.com">Several Artists</a> soon, and build from there as time allows.</p>
<p>Everything else deserves its own announcement when something happens. Including just editing more pictures to put on this site – if you are subscribed to the news feed you will see them go up. I’ve always been bad at Documentation Day.</p>
<p>And on that note, here’s an “AI” “painting” of a “rabbit:”</p>
<p><img src="/news/2023-01-25-wabbit.jpg" alt="Diffusion Bunny" /></p>
<p>Now go read yourself some <a href="https://twitter.com/jerrysaltz">Jerry Saltz</a>!</p>
<h3 id="again-happy-new-years-all-of-them">Again: Happy New Years, all of them!</h3>
Mr. Robinson
2022-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
2022-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/mr-robinson/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/mr-robinson_600x750.jpg" alt="Mr. Robinson (Acrylic on convas, 40x50cm, 2022)" /></p>
Hotel Art Fair, Bangkok
2022-11-12T00:00:00+00:00
2022-11-12T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/hotel-art-fair-bangkok/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<h3 id="quick-notes-from-the-fair">Quick Notes from the Fair</h3>
<p>Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the
<a href="https://hotelartfair.com">Hotel Art Fair</a> at The Standard in Bangkok. I
organize a <a href="https://www.meetup.com/bkk-gallery/">Meetup Group</a> for looking at
art in the Thai capital, and we had more than twenty people join for the
fair.</p>
<p>There was a <em>lot</em> of art packed into the hotel rooms, taking up two entire
floors of The Standard. If I were a better schmoozer I would have gone to the
opening night: judging by Instagram it was epic, but I was busy painting that
night. Fortunately none of the exhibitors was laid low by the party, and all
the rooms were open to visitors.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2022-11-09-haf-number-one.jpg" alt="Number One Bedtime" /> Bedtime with <a href="http://www.number1gallery.com">Number 1 Gallery</a></p>
<p>As I was in Group Organizer Mode and not Art Curator Mode I didn’t capture all
the art and artists, nor even all of the best of it. But I would like to take
a moment to point out a few discoveries that were new to me.</p>
<p>First, a shout out to fellow painter
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/shiori_saito16/">Shiori Saito</a> from Tokyo,
showing with <a href="https://www.kobayashi-g.co.jp">Kobayashi Gallery</a>. I love love
love these paintings! And in a world of artistic gigantism that seems to
infect contemporary painters before they even get to art school, I give an
automatic 10-point bonus to anyone who can make a good painting that would
actually fit in a typical Tokyo apartment.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2022-11-09-haf-saito.jpg" alt="Shiori Saito" /> <em>Unfounded fear of suribachi
sesame</em>, oil on canvas, 14x18cm, © Shiori Saito 2022</p>
<p>Next is Indonesian artist <a href="https://dedysufriadi.com/artwork/">Dedy Sufriadi</a>,
showing with
<a href="https://www.artemisartgallery.com/">Artemis Gallery</a>. Very interesting work
with a lot of philosophy behind it. Makes you want to see more.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2022-11-09-haf-sufriadi.jpg" alt="Dedy Sufriadi" /> Sorry, didn’t find any title there; it’s about 60x80cm I think. © Dedy Sufriadi</p>
<p>Third and last for this note, let’s hear it for
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/r.s.rachata/">Rachata Siriyakul</a>! One of the fun things about South East Asian art is how very <em>non-western</em> it can be at times. For all its graffiti-love, I can’t imagine America embracing, say, <a href="https://studiobenzilla.com">Benzilla</a> if Asia didn’t embrace him first.</p>
<p>But then you also find artists like Siriyakul, who are defiantly European in style, while still bringing their own unique vision to the work. This is an artist to watch: as the regional market develops I predict this classical style will remain a niche, but a very powerful niche valued by important collectors. Check out this <a href="http://www.number1gallery.com/Exhibition.aspx?name=the-opposite-route-to-celestial-light">exhibition</a> at Number 1, it has a lot of examples and they’re better photographed than mine here.</p>
<p><img src="/news/2022-11-09-haf-siriyakul.jpg" alt="Rachata Siriyakul" /> <em>Judith leaning on the head of Holofernes,</em> oil on linen, 60x80cm, © Rachata Siriyakul 2022</p>
<p>That’s it for this little note! Not a roundup, just a note: there were a lot of artists I recognized there, about whom I hope to write more later. But these three were new to me and made enough of an impression that I’m writing about it more
than a week later.</p>
<p><em>(Apologies, almost, to the artists for the crappy photography, but not really: two of these were stuck on windows and backlit, while the other was leaned on an ottoman in the dark antechamber of a Standard suite.)</em></p>
Welcome to the redesign!
2022-11-08T00:00:00+00:00
2022-11-08T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/news/hello-world/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p>Welcome to the redesign of <a href="/">Kevin Frost Dot Com</a>. My name’s Kevin Frost Dot
Human and I’ll be your artist today. See anything you like on the menu?</p>
<p><em>Why,</em> you may ask, does an artist’s web site need a <em>news</em> section? I admit
that <em>need</em> is probably too strong a word. But can a web site not <em>want?</em></p>
<p>In the normal course of my mildly chaotic life, I run across a lot of art, and
I wanted a place to simply jot things down, point out interesting artists or
shows or facts or figures <em>(follow the figures!)</em>, maybe show some works in
progress, and in general have a “permanent” record (up to the limit of my own
patience with this web site) of otherwise ephemeral bits of the Art Life.</p>
<p>Yes, I could just put all this on Twitter or on Instagram and let this or that
billionaire push it in front of a greater number of eyeballs, a number that
might even include the two or three or however many you have in your own head,
Dear Reader. But speaking of ephemera, as I write this a certain famous
bajillionaire is bending the Bluebird of Rage to his will, and who knows what
will come of that. So, yeah, I’ll take the long tail of the Real Web, thank
you very much. I can always post about this site on those sites, right?
<em>(Haha, “right.” No outbound links in the Metaverse, silly Dot Human.)</em></p>
<p>So there you have it. Notes, announcements, tidbits, links, and so on, here
for your reading pleasure and possibly also that of Posterity.</p>
<p>My gut feeling is that anyone who knows what <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS">RSS</a>
– in this case, actually
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(web_standard)">Atom</a> –
is, and wants to keep up with this News, will have a news reader and know how
to subscribe. To those I add the hint (warning?) that updates to other pages,
in particular the <a href="/work">Work</a> section, are included in the feed. Having
read this far, you clearly hunger for maximum knowledge!</p>
<p>And here it is: <a href="/atom.xml">kevinfrost.com/atom.xml</a></p>
<p>Or, of course, you can just check the <a href="/news/">News</a> section right here
whenever you feel curious. I will <em>probably</em> not make a newsletter out of
this.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading, now put down your electronic device and go look at some
art! <code>;-)</code></p>
<h1 id="">🖼️</h1>
Bluenose
2022-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
2022-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/bluenose/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/bluenose_600x750.jpg" alt="Bluenose (acrylic on linen on HDF, 24x30cm, October 2022)" /></p>
Összes Térfogat
2021-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
2021-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/osszes-terfogat/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/osszes-terfogat_600x875.jpg" alt="Összes Térfogat (Mixed Media on Bristol, A4, June 2021)" /></p>
Tam Arai
2021-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
2021-04-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/tam-arai/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/tam-arai_1000x1400.jpg" alt="Tam Arai (Watercolor and Acrylic on Paper, 50x70cm, April 2021)" /></p>
Scifi Rólad
2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/scifi-rolad/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/scifi-rolad_450x600.jpg" alt="Scifi Rolad (mixed media on paper, 18x24cm, 2021)" /></p>
Wrestlemania
2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/wrestlemania/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/wrestlemania_450x600.jpg" alt="Wrestlemania (watercolor on paper, 18x24cm, 2021)" /></p>
I've Never Seen a Turtle.
2020-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
2020-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/video/turtle/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<h4 id="part-of-holly-grimm-s-aikphrasis-project">Part of Holly Grimm’s <a href="https://hollygrimm.com/aikphrasisproject">Aikphrasis Project</a>.</h4>
Ember
2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/ember/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/ember_750x1000.jpg" alt="Ember (mixed media on paper, 30x40cm, 2019)" /></p>
Atypical Face
2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/atypical-face/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/atypical-face_600x800.jpg" alt="Atypical Face (Pigmented Ink on Paper, 30x40cm, 2013)" /></p>
Winsjerät
2010-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
2010-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
https://kevinfrost.com/work/winsjeraet/
Kevin Frost, Artist
<p><img src="/pix/osszes-terfogat_600x750.jpg" alt="Winsjerät (Oil on Canvas, 24x30cm, 2010)" /></p>