Doug Frohman Df_1

Welcome!
Usually artists will tell insiders, other artists (in confidence) "I don't want to sell such and such a work because it is among my best pieces." Then they're surprised when nothing happens. I like to take the opposite approach. I have selected 10 of my finest** pieces for ArtMajeur, which along w.1st Dibs.com & Saatchi (because I love Rebecca Wilson) are the only group sites I exhibit my work. Otherwise, I limit my presentation to my artist website, www.DougFrohman.com, my gallery, Ai Bo Gallery and public exhibitions like Art Basel Miami, select individual or curated group shows.

** When I say these 10 works on ArtMajeur.com are among the finest pieces I've done, what I mean is they have realized a quintessential blend of color, atmospheric ambience, structure and that "x-factor" which can make my heart flutter momentarily and open even further.

I hope you enjoy these pieces and all I can say about acquiring one of them is if a piece resonates with you "Acquiring art is a lot like falling in love."

Utilizing the language of abstraction, my work draws upon an amalgam of minimalism, color-field and aspects of architecture. I tend to work thematically drawing upon a series of concepts while engaging with different materials, surface and themes.

Since 2007, I switched from painting with brushes to using cement trowels of different sizes, experimenting extensively with different mediums and painting on hard wood panels instead of stretched canvas. The thicker, richer volume of paint and its application via the trowels multiplied my options, suggesting new ways of creating and “treating” the surface.

From selectively-scraped passages revealing the work’s back-story and layered development to open fields of seductively smooth, glossy color, the added variety of paint handling and new surface treatments opened the way to more sophisticated and nuanced compositions.

My past three series have been based around the square. From the series of four sequential panels and squares in “Abstract Narratives”, to the boldly-colored, large geometric squares of “Equations” to the small, individual panels of “Particles”, the square and its combinations has remained a constant in the work.

Spatial architecture has emerged as a special focus in my current work. Re-conceiving the surface as a 3-D spherical space vs. a flat plane adds dimensionality to the relative position of the forms while increasing the dynamic tension they create.

"VITALITY RISING": A Five-Artist Dialogue
March 16 - April 14, 2018
@ Zhou Brothers Galleries
1029 W. 35th Street Chicago, !L 60609

"The gathering of these five artists, as individually accomplished as they are varied in style and execution all produce a heightened quality of vitality in the objects they create. This exhibition demonstrates how the individual character, craft and passion their work summons is greatly enhanced by proximity and the resulting dialogue amongst the works. The notion of two plus two equaling five applies here and then some...

Though we often think of time as our most valuable commodity, it turns out that vitality or life itself actually takes the top spot. Time can race or it can drag whereas the presence of vitality makes or breaks the quality or lack thereof in one’s experience of life. Each of these artists reach for nothing less than the greatest possible expression of that ineffable quality."

Artists:
Darrell Roberts
Pamela Stager
Douglas Frohman
Rebecca Moy
Ford Crull, NYC