April 6 Lecture at the School of Art Institute of Chicago

Introduction to my work by David R. Harper

Featured along with some amazing DC artists on ApartmentTherapy.com (the picture is from my studio in 2008).

Last week I installed work in SAIC’s Betty Rymer Gallery. I’m part of a group exhibit called Hypothetical Planets. The show runs October 13th through November 20th.

More info on my blog.

World of Queer Craft Steven Frost

I’m in a group show called World of QueerCraft at the Craftland Gallery in Providence, RI. I’m showing 6 small Vignette Badges (3 never before exhibited). The show also features work by Liz Collins, Michael DiPietro, Monica Panzarino, Christopher Schulz, Anna Shapiro, Jason Tranchida, and Matt Underwood. Monica, Matt, and I graduated from Alfred University together. Christopher Schulz founded PinUps Magazine which I am a huge fan of. I wasn’t able to attend the opening but check out some of Matt’s photos from the opening. This exhibit runs through November 21.

Photos from the opening over on my blog.

Artists like Joseph Beuys have built catalogs of work looking at rites of passage. Reincorpartion Jamboree draws from the work of five young artists who have emerged from what could be considered contemporary American rites of passage like: middle school dances, under employment, financing higher education and urban survival. Curator and DC artist, Steven Frost examines this emergence with a group of young artists from several regions of the US. The work of Kristina Bilonick (Washington, DC), Ben Fino-Radin (Providence, RI), Hatnim Lee (Brooklyn, NY), Sean M. Johnson (Boston, MA), and Theo Knox (San Francisco, CA) premiers at Honfleur Gallery in this incisive body of contemporary study of Reincorporation.

Building on themes addressed in his own studio practice curator, Steven Frost’s  Reincorporation Jamboree gathers artists who in the twilight of there adulthood reexamine themes of passage, ambition, experimentation, and family ties. Reincorporation is the act rejoining society after experiences separating one from it as defined by French ethnographer and folklorist, Arnold van Gennep. Frost selected artist’s whose work was anthropological, each of them touches on contemporary popular culture, the artists own rites-of-passage and subsequent emergence of unique perspectives. The exhibition includes photography, mixed media installation and interactive works. Visitors may see the show at Honfleur starting June 22, 2009.

The grand closing reception will be held July, 24th at 7pm

Honfleur Gallery, Historic Anacostia’s contemporary art space, is located at 1241 Good Hope Road SE.  Its close proximity to 395, Capitol Hill and to the Anacostia Green Line Metro makes it easily accessible from downtown DC. For further inquiries, please contact Amy Cavanaugh, Honfleur Gallery Director, at 202-580-5972. Be sure to visit these websites for details: www.honfleurgallery.com.

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Artist Steven Frost is devising his own set of merit badges. Forget the Boy Scouts’ promotion of civic virtues and handy skills, like first aid and, umm, archery. In their place, Frost offers a celebration of human foibles and personal fantasies, like the Looking for Yourself in Missed Connections Badge. Yet beneath wry titles and colorful exuberance, Frost’s works on paper and fabric have a sharper edge. What appear to be line drawings are actually sown with thread, and by using a medium traditionally thought of as feminine, Frost tacitly ridicules the Scouts’ notorious positions on gender and homosexuality. With that in mind, the Mapplethorpe Is My Daddy Badge comes across as a brash wink.

– Karsten Lund