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Contemporary Art

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Style: Contemporary
Artist: Kim Frohsin
Carnival Faire / 1994 important figurative painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
Dazzling figurative painting, Carnival Faire, from artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 1994. The work features a woman attending an an inner city carnival with purchased food. Brilliant c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Reds In Overdrive: Horse Grid / original large acrylic painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Reds in Overdrive' from Frohsin's Horse Grid series is vibrant and lively, in reds pinks and purples. The work features horses walking, galloping, jumping and standing. The painting...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pigment

Swing Out Sister! / mixed media: acrylic, assemblage
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 Art

Materials

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

Battle Shoes / still life shoe painting
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Battle Shoes ' still life painting of a pair of women's heels by California artist Kim Frohsin, who employs mixed media including acrylic paint, Stabilo pencil, watercolor, gouache,...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper, Gouache, Mixed Media

The Puerto Rican
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 Art

Materials

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

Stephanie with Foothold
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 Art

Materials

Gouache, Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

Tapping Along the Faultline / mixed media: acrylic, assemblage
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 Art

Materials

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

Double-Ticket Silverscreen / mixed media: acrylic, assemblage
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Cone No 5: Sister Twin
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Seattle Musing
Located in Burlingame, CA
Painting on paper is 9 x 12 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 17 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches, with an archival crystal clear case. Frohsin...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Gouache, Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

Brisbane Factory
Located in Burlingame, CA
Architectural rendering in blue, white red and black, features a Bay Area building with blue sky in this Monotype ev edition 2/4 with hand coloring. the plate is 12 1/2 x 21 inches a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Monotype, Monoprint

Swamper / acrylic painting - framed
Located in Burlingame, CA
Abstracted figurative nude painting in mainly greens with purple from Kim Frohsin's "Figures WIth Edges" series. Frohsin, third generation Bay Area Figurative artist—from the movemen...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Mixed Media

Moon Over Garden Chair
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Pinhole

Cone No 5: Brother Twin
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Cones: Married Couple / mixed media painting
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

No 3: Portrait of Number three / acrylic paitning
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 generation Bay Area Figurat...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Pigment, Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media, Gouache

Feet Up / nude - mixed media acrylic on paper
Located in Burlingame, CA
Painting on paper is 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 16 5/8 x 18 3/4 inches, with an archival crystal clear case. ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Gouache, Pigment, Mixed Media, Ink, Acrylic

Oasis in Chaos: CT No 3
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 Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

Coney Island / Coke Work
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Pigment

San Tropez Palette
Located in Burlingame, CA
Gold and orange yellow with black and white emblazon this figurative mixed media 'San Tropez Palette' abstracted figurative nude from Kim Frohsin's "Figures...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Gouache, Pigment, Mixed Media, Ink, Acrylic

The Pastry Chef
Located in Burlingame, CA
Figurative nude with complex color—pink, green, grey and yellow— rhythm, and overall design by Kim Frohsin. 'The Pastry Chef' abstracted nude acrylic and mixed media painting in Froh...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Bottles No 2
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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Monotype, Pastel

Large Mosaic Self Portrait
Located in Burlingame, CA
Experimental photographic work by Kim Frohsin, who is often associated with the Bay Area Figurative movement, 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’ and ‘Portraits of Numbers’— that attract her attention, and which are most often autobiographical in nature. This mixed media work is created from deconstructed pinhole photographs...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Pigment, Pin...

Two Vents No. 2 / Dog Patch San Francisco - acrylic painting
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Pigment, Gouache, Ink

Red Rest
Located in Burlingame, CA
Original acrylic mixed media painting on laid cream paper from 2011 in excellent condition. Sleeping female figure in grey and rust with stripes. Signed and dated on the front lowe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Peace Cones: Debate '68
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Ink

Historic Safety Box: Pier 70/ SF
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Jazz Lover
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 Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Self Portrait No. 2
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...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Masonite

Cosovo No 1
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 Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Pastel, Monotype, Gouache

Mesh No 1 & 2: Cautionary Tales / diptych
Located in Burlingame, CA
Important work from Kim Frohsin's Cautionary Tales series of 2015, that considers the price of progress in our rapidly changing world. Here in this compelling diptych "Mesh No 1 & 2'...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

The Long Road Ahead
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Sucker No 1
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...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

DangeroUS: Cautionary Tales
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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache

Danger Angel: Cautionary Tales
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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

When We Were Children / Coke Work - Coca-Cola painting
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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Ash / mixed media acrylic painting on paper in blue
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stunning composition in blue and black of model Ashlyn's back from Kim Frohsin who is associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement that was started by David Park, Wayne Theibaud,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

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

La Marseillaise
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 ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Noonan Hall Chair No. 1
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 Art

Materials

Acrylic

Last One Standing
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Monotype, Pencil, Paper, Ink

J.E. Hat
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 ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Monotype

Number 50: My Half Century Marker
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 Art

Materials

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

Eternal Mary Jane's / mixed media photography
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Pinhole

J.L. Stripes
Located in Burlingame, CA
An iconic female Frohsin figure with red and white stripes and heavy hand coloring. Monotype EV Ed 4/4. Signed front in pencil by Frohsin, who is strongly associated with the Bay Are...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ink, Pigment, Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pencil

A Crown Frown
Located in Burlingame, CA
Provocative portrait of a young woman, in primarily celadon green and cream, wearing a crown and offering a pensive look, from Kim Frohsin, who is often associated with the Bay Area ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Ink, Color Pencil, Mixed Media, Paper, Pencil

Black Ballet
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Monotype

Silver Bonded
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Roslyn Lane
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 Art

Materials

Monotype

Blocks No 2: With Black
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 Art

Materials

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

Nostalgic: Era Shoes
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 ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Monoprint

Souliers No 2
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 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Monotype

Jane
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...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Gouache, Color Pencil, Ink, Mixed Media, Monotype

CT: Leviathan Cones
Located in Burlingame, CA
gold, orange and honey colored construction cones from Frohsin's Cautionary Tales series from 2015. This mixed media painting is a remarkable work. It is one of three "cone-scapes' t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

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

Cautionary Tale: Big Meshscape
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media

CT: Alert Today Alive Tomorrow
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Gouache, Mixed Media, Ink, Acrylic

Blue Flight / monoprint
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 3/4 with heavy hand coloring. The plate is 28 x 28 inches and the overall paper size is 33 1/2 x 32 inches. Signed, titled and dated. Kim Frohsin spend 12 years w...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Pastel, Monotype, Gouache

Bicks Drops
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...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Monotype

Centennial Flight
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 Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

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