"Cautionary Pole" from #Playground Series by Kim Frohsin

Kim Frohsin. Born: 1961, Atlanta, GA, is a third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movement that originated with David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Rex Ashlock, Elmer Bischoff, Wayne Thiebaud, and James Weeks.

Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De Staebler in an exhibit of "Four Figures from the Bay." With Wayne Thiebaud as the juror, she won the California Society of Printmakers' Award in 1996, and the following year exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in "Bay Area Art: The Morgan Flagg Collection." Frohsin is a multidisciplinary visual artist, who is at home with painting, drawing, monoprinting, and mixed media. Her subjects include the female figure as well as mundane ''objects" and series — including ‘Cautionary Tales’ , ‘Reliquaries’ and ‘Portraits of Numbers’— that attract her attention, and which are most often autobiographical in nature.

The artist focused on abstracted figures created in mixed media in her highly unique style, from 2007 - 2008. Media includes mainly acrylic paint, with ink, dry pigment, gouache, and pencils. This painting is professionally framed in a museum quality white ash hard wood floater frame. Signed by the artist, front in pencil and back in ink. The painting is 8 3/4 x 11 inches. Frames outer edge is 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches

Moved to California: 1979 then, EDUCATION:

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, and l’Institut pour les Etudiants Etrangers, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1979-1984, B.A. Humanities, B.A. French, 1986-88, The Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, B.F.A.