Ashley Frost

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Ashley Frost lives, paints and teaches painting between Sydney Australia and Long Island NY creating paintings and curatorial arrangements that question and expand traditional notions of artistic media. Reveling in the viscosity and plasticity of oil paint, the artist states his works “are grounded in traditional ideas of composition”. From this grounding, Frost aims to expand the notion of painting’s composition structure through a rigorous manipulation of paint and color in both single works and collections of paintings that can be arranged and disassembled. Situating his work across the historical timeline of Japanese woodblock prints, French Impressionism, and American East and West Coast post-war painting, Frost also questions the academic and cultural dialects of compositional painting. Creating paintings and curatorial compositions that are open-ended and allow audiences to become final contributors to the finished work.