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Kim Frohsin Art

American, b. 1961
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist is at home with a variety of media, including painting, drawing, monoprints, mixed media and collage. Her subjects include the female figure, cityscape, iconic Coke-Work, Portraits of Numbers, and other objects that attract her attention and which are most often autobiographical in nature. 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. " Born: 1961, Atlanta, GA Moved to California: 1979
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Artist: Kim Frohsin
Sucker No 1
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
An early, wonderful oil on panel, still life Sucker in a wrapper, in green, orange and red, from Kim Frohsin, who is often associated with the Bay Area Figurative movement, began exh...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Elle se Penche
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
California visual artist Kim Frohsin is unsurpassed in her depictions of figures, mostly female, usually in paintings that are intimate in size and scale. All of her work, whether re...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Pigment

Moon Over Garden Chair
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin created the arcane series, Reliquaries, from a variety of media—acrylic paint, glazes, ink, collage, pencils, and dry pigment—built upon pinhole photographs...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Pinhole

Beach Wall and Sun
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 5/7 with hand coloring. the plate (image) size is 8 x 15 inches the overall paper dimension is 17 x 23 inches. Kim Frohsin spent 12 years working on monotype ev's...
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20th Century Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Monotype

The Bend
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Kim Frohsin, Third generation Bay Area Figurative artist began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper, Pencil

Blast
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Abstracted imagined architectural elements is this early and important oil and acrylic painting from 1991 —mixed media: acrylic, dry pigment, ink, pencil on archival board. Kim Froh...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic, Oil

Noonan Building Deco Fountain no. 1
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Deco Water Fountain featured in the historic San Francisco, Pier 70, mixed media painting with mainly acrylic paint. The 'Dog Patch' region in San Francisco is under mass changes in the name of progress. Soon, the area will be unrecognizable, as the old shipyard is being dismantled to make way for profitable new construction. While the artist captures scenes around her studio, we glimpse an earlier San...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

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Acrylic

All Basha
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
A rare "clothed" figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. Professionally framed in a white ash hardwood floater frame, with an opening on the back, to reveal the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

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Acrylic

Self Portrait No. 2
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
An early painting from 1991 by Kim Frohsin. Figurative self portrait with complex coloration (burgundy, gold, pale blue) and indigo cast shadow. Heavy acrylic on masonite panel. 18 x...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic

When We Were Children / Coke Work - Coca-Cola painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
From Kim Frohsin's important "Coke Work" collage series. Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and she was included with Nathan Oliveira, Manuel ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Ink, Mixed Media, Paper, Pigment, Rag Paper

Coney Island / Coke Work
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Coney Island No 1' is one of only a few remaining works from Kim Frohsin's "Coke Work" series of miced media and collage paintings inspired by the iconic Coke bottle shape, from 201...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Pigment

Double-Ticket Silverscreen / mixed media: acrylic, assemblage
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
BAllet dancer in red featured in 'Double-Ticket Silverscreen' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created the series, 'Dancers and Athletes', from a variety of medi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Cautionary Tale: Pole + Circle
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bright orange and colorful thoroughly unique urban city scape, as seen through the mesh of an urban construction site. Important work from Frohsin's Cautionary Tales series of 2015, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic

CT: City Of Hope
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
"CT: City Of Hope', is a Frohsin imagined and abstracted aerial-map collage created in late 2015. The small-scale, dynamic, mixed-media work is among the last of Frohsin’s critically...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pigment

Jane
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Jane' in pink and dark blue. Monotype EV with mixed media hand coloring including ink, gouache, pencils. Ed 1/4. Kim Frohsin, who is often associated with the Bay Area Figurative m...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Color Pencil, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Monotype

CT: Alert Today Alive Tomorrow
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
The final artwork in the artist's Cautionary Tales series that were created throughout 2015. Frohsin's Cautionary Tale's consider the true price of progress in the name of technologi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media

Big Candy Grid
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Big Candy Grid' features abstracted candy shapes with vivid and florescent colors within a dazzling contemporary "pop art" composition. Monotype ev edition...
Category

1990s Abstract Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Monotype

California Dreamin' Number 57 - important painting contemporary pop
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
"California Dreamin' No. 57" from Frohsin's Number's series 2010-2014. Painted in layers of mixed media: acrylic, gouache, pencils, ink on archival ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic

Danger Angel: Cautionary Tales
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Vibrant mixed media painting from Kim Frohsin, whose important and provocative Cautionary Tales series of 2015, considers the true price of progress and its repercussions on society ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pencil

Cautionary Tale: Big Meshscape
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Contemporary urbanscape as seen through orange construction mesh, created with acrylic paint and mixed media, including gouache, ink, pencils. Big Meshscape is the largest of Frohsin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media

Tapping Along the Faultline / mixed media: acrylic, assemblage
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin created the series, 'Dancers and Athletes', from a variety of media—acrylic paint, glazes, ink, collage, pencils, and dry pigment—built up...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Cones: Married Couple / mixed media painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Cones: Married Couple' from Kim Frohsin's important and historic Cautionary Tales series series of 2015. 'Married Couple' featuring a pair of construct...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pencil, Pigment

Blocks No 1
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Archival Pigment Iris Print. Edition 4/12 with heavy hand coloring. A vibrant work with mixed media worked over the print. Kim Frohsin spend 12 years working on monotype ev's and Iri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Pigment

Peace Cones: Debate '68
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Peace "traffic" Cones inspired by the 1068 Peace Talks: Gore Vidal vs William F. Buckley Jr. Cautionary Tales series, which considers the true price of progress in the name of technological advancement. Created from mixed media with mainly acrylic paint o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Fireboat with Flag
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
A rare and very early oil and wax medium painting from American artist, Kim Frohisn, who is generally associated with the West Coast's Bay Area Figurative movement, started by Elmer ...
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20th Century American Realist Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wax

Last One Standing
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
monotype EV —edition variée ed 2/5 with heavy hand coloring. A final work from the artist's mportant Cautionary Tales series, that was her focus throughout 2015. A large and dynamic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Monotype, Paper, Pencil

Silver Bonded
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Silver and orange monotype EV —edition variée ed 3/5 with heavy hand coloring. A final work from the artist's mportant Cautionary Tales series, that was her focus throughout 2015. T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Color Pencil, Ink, Mixed Media, Monotype, Paper, Pigment

CT: On Navigating Life, Love, and Traffic
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
CT: Cautionary Tales series from 2015. This remarkable mixed media painting is one of three "cone-scapes' that consider the new American landscape dotted with construction cones. The...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Roslyn Lane
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype EV Ed 5/7 with heavy hand coloring with mixed media. Portrait of the artist's mother. Signed front in pencil by Kim Frohsin, who is strongly associated with the Bay Area Fig...
Category

1990s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Monotype

Blocks No 2: With Black
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Archival Pigment Iris Print. Edition 5/12 with heavy hand coloring and miced media worked over the print. Kim Frohsin spent 12 years working on monotype ev's and Iris prints, and wor...
Category

1990s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color Pencil, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media

Bottles No 2
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 5/6 with hand coloring. the overall paper size is 23 1/2 x 23 inches. Kim Frohsin spend 12 years making monotype ev's, and works from this series are included in ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

Black Ballet
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 1/3 with hand coloring. The plate (image of ballet slippers) is 15 x 14 inches and the overall paper size is 23 1/2 x 22 inches. Kim Frohsin spent 12 years workin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Monotype

CT: Mastaba and Sky
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Iconic painting from Kim Frohsin's Cautionary Tales series series of 2015. 'Mastaba and Sky' is a highly contemporary painting created from mixed media: acrylic, dry pigment, ink, pe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Mixed Media, Pigment

J.E. Hat
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Woman with red hair in a hat with feather, in green, black and white, Monotype ev edition 5/6 with hand coloring and mixed media work. Kim Frohsin spent 12 years working on monotype ...
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1990s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype

Cosovo No 1
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Girl's shoes, heels or tap shoes in bronze, black and gold, featured in this Monotype ev edition 8/8 with hand coloring. Kim Frohsin spent 12 years working o...
Category

1990s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

Spade of Skies
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
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 Fi...
Category

20th Century Abstract Geometric Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

Number 5: For Coco Chanel & Joe Dimaggio / pop art collectable
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Number 5: For Coco Chanel & Joe Dimaggio'. As seen in Frohsin's Book, Portrait's of Numbers, 2010-2014. painted in 2011. Mixed media: acrylic, ink, dry p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Bread no. 4
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bread no. 4' The image of a slice of bread with a blue background painted, painted in 2023. It comes in a pristine museum quality pale ash wood frame with all archival materials. Artwork dimension is 12 x 12 inches. / framed 12 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches. A wonderful original work of art by Kim Frohsin, who is often associated with the Bay Area Figurative movement. 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Bread no. 3
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Bread no. 3' The image of a slice of bread with a green background, painted in 2023. It comes in a pristine museum quality pale ash wood frame with all archival materials. Artwork d...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Toss Up / assemblage painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ballet dancers in red with sky blue stripe in 'Toss Up' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created the series, 'Dancers and Athletes', from a variety of media—acry...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Photographic Paper

Noonan Toilet Portrait no. 2
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Noonan Toilet in greys, blues, plumb and cream, featured in the historic San Francisco, Pier 70, mixed media painting with mainly acrylic paint. The 'Dog Patch' region in San Francisco is under mass changes in the name of progress. Soon, the area will be unrecognizable, as the old shipyard is being dismantled to make way for profitable new construction. While the artist captures scenes around her studio, we glimpse an earlier San Francisco...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic

Memorial to Mr. Morris / woman's head study - drawing painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Memorial to Mr. Morris' is created with stabilo pencil, ink, gouache, walnut ink and charcoal on paper. Comes in an archival crystal clear storage sleeve. The young woman's head wit...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Color Pencil, Ink, Watercolor

Cone No 5: Brother Twin
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Cone No 5: Brother Twin' from Kim Frohsin's important and historic Cautionary Tales series series of 2015. Twin Brother Cone is one of about fifteen "portraits" of construction cone...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board, Carbon Pencil

Cone No 5: Sister Twin
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Cone No 5: Sister Twin' from Kim Frohsin's important and historic Cautionary Tales series series of 2015. Twin Sister Cone is one of about 15 "portraits of construction cones by Fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board, Pigment

No 3: Portrait of Number three / acrylic paitning
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Portrait of Number Three, 'No 3: Christmas and Peppermint' abstracted, lined and layered acrylic and miced media painting from Kim Frohsin who is a third...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

Oasis in Chaos: CT No 3
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Exquisite pool or body of water amidst encroaching growth in the form of construction and city growth from all sides. This work from Frohsin's Cautionary Tales series is bold, strong...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

Two Vents No. 2 / Dog Patch San Francisco - acrylic painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
A wonderful mixed media: acrylic painting featuring two vents that existed on a historic building from Pier 70 in San Francisco. The vents are now gone, as the old buildings are unde...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

Historic Safety Box: Pier 70/ SF
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
A stunning mixed media work featuring a historic Safety Box from Pier 70 in San Francisco. The box that was mounted to a wall near the artist's studio, is n...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Noonan Hall Chair No. 1
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monochrome painting of a Wicker Chair, and the first in a series of three still life "portraits" of the model's chair found in Frohsin's art Studio in 2014, that was artist Frank Lob...
Category

2010s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic

Number 50: My Half Century Marker
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Number 50 'My Half Century Marker' from Frohsin's 'Number's series 2010-2014. Created in layers of mixed media: acrylic, gouache, pencils, ink on archival museum board, and then prof...
Category

2010s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Pigment, Gouache, Acrylic, Ink, Glaze, Mixed Media

Bicks Drops
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
monotype EV —edition variée 1/4 with heavy hand coloring in mixed media. Plate/image is 10 x 10 inches. Paper dimension is 18 x 18 inches. Pink, blue and white candy still life of B...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Monotype

Souliers No 2
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype EV edition variée 1/4, with heavy hand coloring: mixed media, featuring satin wedding shoes. Signed front in pencil by Kim Frohsin, who is strongly associated with the Bay ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Monotype

Nostalgic: Era Shoes
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
1920's flapper shoes featured in this green, blue, black, and white. From a variable edition (édition variée) of 7 -- each impression is a unique color ...
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1990s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Monoprint

Centennial Flight
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Airplanes and biplanes are featured in 'Centennial Flight' on a grey and silver grid with heavy hand coloring. Monotype ev is 32 x 32 inches. Kim Frohsin spend 12 years working on mo...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

Bow Gloves
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 2/4 with hand coloring. the plate is 12 x 12 inches and the overall paper size is 21 x 20 inches. Kim Frohsin spend 12 years working on monotype ev's, and works f...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

CT: Forked Crossings
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
"CT: Forked Crossings', is a Frohsin imagined and abstracted aerial-map collage created in late 2015. The small-scale, dynamic, mixed-media work is among the last of Frohsin’s critic...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

Three Stacks
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Multidisciplinary artist Kim Frohsin’s work is held by the San Jose Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Office of the Governor, State Capital, Sacramento, and th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Safety in Numbers: CT
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Safety in Numbers' is part of Frohsin's important and histoic 'Cautionary Tales' series that considers the true price of technology driven progress. Created with acrylic and mixed m...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Art

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media

Kim Frohsin art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Kim Frohsin art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue, orange, red and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Kim Frohsin in paint, acrylic paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Kim Frohsin art, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Natasha Zupan, Aimée Farnet Siegel, and Jenny Day. Kim Frohsin art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $750 and tops out at $15,000, while the average work can sell for $3,000.

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