VISUAL FINE ARTIST
Kim Frohsin
Figurative painting, drawing, monoprints and mixed media
A practiced eye and hand invite you to deeply experience the sensuality and wonder of everyday life.
ABOUT
Atlanta, San Francisco and Aix-en-Provence cradled Kim as a multidisciplinary visual artist, athlete, scholar and photographer. Considered a third generation Bay Area Figurative artist early in her career, she has won prestigious awards, exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and is in international private and public collections.
WHAT ART CRITICS SAY
“… she is among the relatively few legitimate heirs of the Bay Area Figurative School. Among her predecessors are Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell … she and her distinguished predecessors share in common … a complete control of line and form as means to construct an unmistakably individual personal world in their art.”
— Paul J. Karlstrom
author, editor and former west coast regional director
Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
ART PRACTICE
Private drawing sessions with female models are essential to the gestalt of Frohsin’s work. Her exploration of the figure has become highly idiosyncratic, continuously pushing boundaries, evolving via success and challenges, to give meaning to her creative existence.
“Kim Frohsin draws with absolute authority, every line precisely what it should be. She elevates drawing to a level of expressive accomplishment that makes the individual sheets of paper that happily bear her marks fully realized works of art.”
— Paul J. Karlstrom
author, editor and former west coast regional director
Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
SERIES
Frohsin’s series span time, focus and medium. She considers her media to be interdependent and continually presses forth to self-challenge, innovate, and investigate new ideas and subjects.
WORKS
The body of Frohsin’s subjects include the female figure, landscapes and cityscapes, as well as ”objects” and concepts that attract her attention, and which are most often autobiographical in nature. She is at home with painting, drawing, monoprinting, and mixed media.
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Inherited Forms
March 28, 2026 - May 9, 2026
opening reception
March 28, 2026 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Pamela Walsh Gallery
540 Ramona Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
States of Being
April 11, 2026 - May 10, 2026
opening reception
April 11, 2026 | 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Epperson Gallery
1400 Pomona Street
Crockett, CA 94525
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Meditative Mind: Reflections in Stillness
September 20, 2025 - January 10, 2026
opening reception
September 18 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm
UC Irvine Jack and Shanaz Langson
Institute and Museum of California Art
University of California, Irvine
18881 Von Karman Avenue
Irvine, CA 92612
ALL EXHIBITIONS
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.
CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
REVEL / Issue 4 / Fall 2025
12 of my paintings, drawings, collage and pinhole photograhy are featured in the published literary journal, Revel No. 4.
Edited by the acclaimed poet and critic Peter Campion, Revel features the best in new poetry, fiction, literary essays, criticism, and art.
