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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
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

Materials

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

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

Feet Up / nude - mixed media acrylic on paper
By Kim Frohsin
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. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

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

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

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

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

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Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

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

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

The Rose
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Figurative painting from the artist's "Figures with Edges" series. This painting is featured in the book, Figures with Edges, pg 1. Acrylic paitning is 10 3/8 x 9 7/8. Professionally...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Acrylic

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

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Masonite, Oil, Acrylic

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

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

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 Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Pastry Chef
By Kim Frohsin
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil, 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 Paintings

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

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 Paintings

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Mixed Media

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

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

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

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Ink, Mixed Media, 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

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

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...
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20th Century Abstract Geometric Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

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

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

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 Paintings

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Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media

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

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Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, 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

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Acrylic, Gouache, Mixed Media, Pigment

The Ponytail
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Painting on paper is 7 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches, with an archival crystal clear case. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Ink, Mixed Media, Pigment

Sombrero Figurine
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Sombrero Figurine' is a 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 artist's signature, title of the painting, and year of its making - 2008. Ready for hanging and also suitable to sit of a table as a sculpture. 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 the United States Department of State. Her work is also in numerous corporate and private collections, among them the Morgan Flagg Family Collection, Buck Fine Arts, Adobe Systems, Inc Neiman Marcus and the Gap, Inc. 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 Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Ink, 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 Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Pigment

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

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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

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 Paintings

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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 Paintings

Over the Drapeau
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Painting on paper is 11 1/2 x 9 inches. Professionally hinged into an 8ply museum mat with an outer dimension of 20 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches, with an archival crystal clear case. Fro...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Kim Frohsin Paintings

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Acrylic, 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

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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

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Mixed Media

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

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Acrylic, 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

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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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