“Under Cover”
Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Gallery
July 22 - September 9, 2017
Artist’s Reception: Friday, August 4, 6-9 PM
Informal Artist’s Talk 6 PM
The first word that Alison O.K. Frost’s work might bring to mind is Post-Apocalyptic. These works depict a steady stream of portentous imagery referencing natural disasters and riots—the world in a state of collapse and chaos. However, the execution is mesmerizing, exquisitely rendered, and subtly colored. Her ineffably light touch and dark subjects asserts the importance of art not to escape the world but as a steadfast turning toward it.
My work is a meditation on emotionally charged imagery—most recently, military, police and disaster clean up equipment and uniforms—and an attempt to discover deeper ideas behind these signifiers of violence, authoritarian force and social and environmental conflict. I obsessively collect images of local and global conflict and cull subjects from hundreds of these options. When isolated from context, soldiers and war machines become open-ended emblems, vulnerable to meanings that are distinct from their national or political affiliations. Through this distillation, the pictures become a locus for multiple discovered themes: ritual, the uniform as a social mask, death, the fragility of the body, the sacred and even intimacy and vulnerability emerge.
In these pieces, I compose the images starkly, and render the elements phenomenologically to allow exposed paper and pooling watercolor pigments to enter the process as abstraction. The viewer is invited to enjoy the beauty and simple pleasure of watercolor on cotton rag paper and to partake in this transmutation of difficult material into an open circle of possible interpretations. Through my practice I hope to remystify the barrage of fleeting images and sound bytes we are exposed to in digital news cycles. At the same time, the core images retain their potency and remain anchored to the troubled and troubling world beyond the gallery walls.
—Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Contemporary Art Gallery
473 25th St. Oakland
Please email [email protected] with any inquiries
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Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Gallery
July 22 - September 9, 2017
Artist’s Reception: Friday, August 4, 6-9 PM
Informal Artist’s Talk 6 PM
The first word that Alison O.K. Frost’s work might bring to mind is Post-Apocalyptic. These works depict a steady stream of portentous imagery referencing natural disasters and riots—the world in a state of collapse and chaos. However, the execution is mesmerizing, exquisitely rendered, and subtly colored. Her ineffably light touch and dark subjects asserts the importance of art not to escape the world but as a steadfast turning toward it.
My work is a meditation on emotionally charged imagery—most recently, military, police and disaster clean up equipment and uniforms—and an attempt to discover deeper ideas behind these signifiers of violence, authoritarian force and social and environmental conflict. I obsessively collect images of local and global conflict and cull subjects from hundreds of these options. When isolated from context, soldiers and war machines become open-ended emblems, vulnerable to meanings that are distinct from their national or political affiliations. Through this distillation, the pictures become a locus for multiple discovered themes: ritual, the uniform as a social mask, death, the fragility of the body, the sacred and even intimacy and vulnerability emerge.
In these pieces, I compose the images starkly, and render the elements phenomenologically to allow exposed paper and pooling watercolor pigments to enter the process as abstraction. The viewer is invited to enjoy the beauty and simple pleasure of watercolor on cotton rag paper and to partake in this transmutation of difficult material into an open circle of possible interpretations. Through my practice I hope to remystify the barrage of fleeting images and sound bytes we are exposed to in digital news cycles. At the same time, the core images retain their potency and remain anchored to the troubled and troubling world beyond the gallery walls.
—Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Contemporary Art Gallery
473 25th St. Oakland
Please email [email protected] with any inquiries
“Under Cover”
Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Gallery
July 22 - September 9, 2017
Artist’s Reception: Friday, August 4, 6-9 PM
Informal Artist’s Talk 6 PM
The first word that Alison O.K. Frost’s work might bring to mind is Post-Apocalyptic. These works depict a steady stream of portentous imagery referencing natural disasters and riots—the world in a state of collapse and chaos. However, the execution is mesmerizing, exquisitely rendered, and subtly colored. Her ineffably light touch and dark subjects asserts the importance of art not to escape the world but as a steadfast turning toward it.
My work is a meditation on emotionally charged imagery—most recently, military, police and disaster clean up equipment and uniforms—and an attempt to discover deeper ideas behind these signifiers of violence, authoritarian force and social and environmental conflict. I obsessively collect images of local and global conflict and cull subjects from hundreds of these options. When isolated from context, soldiers and war machines become open-ended emblems, vulnerable to meanings that are distinct from their national or political affiliations. Through this distillation, the pictures become a locus for multiple discovered themes: ritual, the uniform as a social mask, death, the fragility of the body, the sacred and even intimacy and vulnerability emerge.
In these pieces, I compose the images starkly, and render the elements phenomenologically to allow exposed paper and pooling watercolor pigments to enter the process as abstraction. The viewer is invited to enjoy the beauty and simple pleasure of watercolor on cotton rag paper and to partake in this transmutation of difficult material into an open circle of possible interpretations. Through my practice I hope to remystify the barrage of fleeting images and sound bytes we are exposed to in digital news cycles. At the same time, the core images retain their potency and remain anchored to the troubled and troubling world beyond the gallery walls.
—Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Contemporary Art Gallery
473 25th St. Oakland
Please email [email protected] with any inquiries
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Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Gallery
July 22 - September 9, 2017
Artist’s Reception: Friday, August 4, 6-9 PM
Informal Artist’s Talk 6 PM
The first word that Alison O.K. Frost’s work might bring to mind is Post-Apocalyptic. These works depict a steady stream of portentous imagery referencing natural disasters and riots—the world in a state of collapse and chaos. However, the execution is mesmerizing, exquisitely rendered, and subtly colored. Her ineffably light touch and dark subjects asserts the importance of art not to escape the world but as a steadfast turning toward it.
My work is a meditation on emotionally charged imagery—most recently, military, police and disaster clean up equipment and uniforms—and an attempt to discover deeper ideas behind these signifiers of violence, authoritarian force and social and environmental conflict. I obsessively collect images of local and global conflict and cull subjects from hundreds of these options. When isolated from context, soldiers and war machines become open-ended emblems, vulnerable to meanings that are distinct from their national or political affiliations. Through this distillation, the pictures become a locus for multiple discovered themes: ritual, the uniform as a social mask, death, the fragility of the body, the sacred and even intimacy and vulnerability emerge.
In these pieces, I compose the images starkly, and render the elements phenomenologically to allow exposed paper and pooling watercolor pigments to enter the process as abstraction. The viewer is invited to enjoy the beauty and simple pleasure of watercolor on cotton rag paper and to partake in this transmutation of difficult material into an open circle of possible interpretations. Through my practice I hope to remystify the barrage of fleeting images and sound bytes we are exposed to in digital news cycles. At the same time, the core images retain their potency and remain anchored to the troubled and troubling world beyond the gallery walls.
—Alison OK Frost
Fourth Wall Contemporary Art Gallery
473 25th St. Oakland
Please email [email protected] with any inquiries
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