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Kim Frohsin Paintings

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
Carnival Suburbian / 2008 framed figurative painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Blue and grey with peach abstracted figurative painting in neutral cool colors from Kim Frohsin's "Figures WIth Edges" series. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—fr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache

The Puerto Rican
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
artwork is 11 1/2 x 9 inches, Professionally matted in an 8ply museum mat and backing and comes in an archival sleeve. Ready for framing or for presentation. All archival materials u...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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

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...
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2010s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Acrylic

The Long Road Ahead
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'The Long Road Ahead', features an iconic Kim Frohsin female figure, created with mixed media on paper - Stabilo pencil, Prismacolour, watercolor, water crayon, gouache, ink, dry pig...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Mixed Media

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 Paintings

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

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 Paintings

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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pigment

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 Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media

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 Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Vintage Camisole: A.P. / mixed media
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
mixed media on paper - Stabilo pencil, Prismacolour, watercolor, water crayon, gouache, ink, dry pigment. The artwork is 12 x 9 inches. The outer dimension of the frame (white washed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Mixed Media

CT: Compound Fissures
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Vibrant orange flourescent mixed media painting from Kim Frohsin, whose important and provocative Cautionary Tales series of 2015, considers the true price of progress and its reperc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Mixed Media

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...
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2010s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

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

Backflipping Stop / assemblage painting
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Diver diving, doing a backflip, in the blue and black, grey and green vertical work of original art, 'Backflipping Stop' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

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

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

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

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 Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wax

Compression: Cautionary Tales
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Exquisite work from Frohsin's Cautionary Tales, with the appearance of a Navajo Blanket or three dimensional urban street signs that are bold, strong, colorful. The painting is mainl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

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...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Acrylic

La Marseillaise
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Nude female figure in vibrant and bold red and white, with pink, grey, purple, painting from Kim Frohsin, who is a third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movement that ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Acrylic

Swing Out Sister! / mixed media: acrylic, assemblage
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Swing Out Sister!' from multidisciplinary visual artist Kim Frohsin, who created the series, 'Dancers and Athletes', from a variety of media—acrylic ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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 Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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 Paintings

Materials

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

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 Paintings

Materials

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

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 Paintings

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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 Paintings

Materials

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

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media

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 Paintings

Materials

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

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 Paintings

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, 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 Paintings

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

DangeroUS: 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 Paintings

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache

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 Paintings

Deco Cola
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of the few remaining works from Frohsin's "Coke Work" series, where she incorporates found Coke cups into the her paintings that include mixed media and collage. Frohsin bega...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

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

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 Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Mixed Media, Pigment

Stephanie with Foothold
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Painting on paper is 10 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 19 x 16 1/4 inches, with an archival crystal clear case. Fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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 Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

CT: International Orange
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
"CT: International Orange', is an abstracted collage created in late 2015. The small-scale, dynamic, mixed-media works are among the last of Frohs...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Kim Frohsin paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Kim Frohsin paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of paintings to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of orange, red, blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Kim Frohsin in acrylic paint, mixed media, 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Bruce Adams, Andrei Petrov, and Aimée Farnet Siegel. Kim Frohsin paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,500 and tops out at $15,000, while the average work can sell for $4,200.

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