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Phil Frost lives and works in New York. His original work on the streets has grown and matured into exquisitely beautiful complex pieces of art.

Using anything from old barn doors, window panes, leaves, paper, sticks, feathers, ink, aerosol, gouache and oils, he produces textured multilayered paintings and sculptures that combine flat repetitive organic shapes with his trademark portraiture, and heavily textured worked areas, reminiscent of tribal shields and artefacts from Melanesia and Australasia.

Phil Frost is a sophisticated self taught artist who served his apprenticeship during the 90s creating elaborate installations on the street of New York. Locations were scouted and measured before he painstakingly created the artwork in his studio. The work, which could consist of many panels, were then taken to the selected site under cover of darkness. His notoriety led to a PBS documentary being made about his work in 1994 when he was only 21, and his transition to galleries followed rapidly.

He has continued to move back and forth between culture and counter-culture, operating both inside and outside the system, and has exhibited widely in both commercial galleries and museum spaces in USA, Europe and Far East.

At the end of 2005 Phil Frost's work was exhibited alongside artists such as Picasso, Dalí, Magritte and Warhol in the acclaimed exhibition "Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper" at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

The exhibition of works on paper traced the history of the presence of the written word in works of art during the last century. Phil's work has been included in many group exhibitions at Elms Lesters, and two solo shows "Seeing is Believing" in 2006 and a salon show in April 2008 to mark the launch of his monograph 'Phil Frost' published by DAMIANI.

Art historian Ben Jones' fascinating and in depth interview with Phil Frost is published in The Elms Lesters Book

Elms Lesters is a primary source of works by Phil Frost