Nurturing Human Potential Through The Arts

Adrian Frost
5472 Hwy 62, Apt. A
Eureka Springs, AR 72632
845.247.0026

adrianfroststudio.com
adrianfroststudio@gmail.com

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Art a question?  Rather than an answer, Art a divining rod for cultural exploration…

Empowerment crossing media to tell our stories.  This is not to imply narrative,

but verity in “whatever form”.  Hands on approach, heightened interest allows learning

at an accelerated pace.   Multi-faceted collaborative projects, centering on empowerment.

Education:

1968-71 Saint Martins School of Art, London, England
1964-68 North Oxfordshire School of Art, Banbury, England

Professional Experience:

• 2011-2018 Painting, sculpture, poetry, film and performance.

• 2010-11 Clear Spring School Multiple Projects:  Consultant for Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, performance film by students, featured on NPR/KUAF,  Creative Consultant, Native American Studies, focusing on 3-dimensional design sculptures based on Native American architecture,

• 2002-2010 Counselor at Devereux Foundation, NY:  Using interactive art activities to explore creativity of autistic & emotionally disturbed young adults.  Nurturing human potential through the arts.

• 2001 Sunwise School, New Paltz, NY Visiting Artist: Clay and Theater Project, NY State Funded.

• 2000-01 Woodstock, NY – Journalist/Art Criticism for Woodstock Times, Kingston Times and Chronogram.

• 1999-00 Dutchess County Community College, NY - Instructor: Drawing.

• 1998-99 Baltimore School of the Arts, MD - Instructor: American Poetry Project; Native American and European Colonial Poetry through to present. Hamlet; Interaction with Shakespeare to produce integrative video projects from personal interpretations.

• 1997-99 Academy of New Paltz, NY - Co-Instructor Integrated Bioregional Studies; 2 month Appalachian Trail Hike. Studies in USA field trip. “Unmasking Ourselves, a ritual of Renewal.”

• 1996-97 Susquehanna State Park, MD - Naturalist: Created and Coordinated the Cultural
  Environmental Program for Youth, encompassing a hands-on study of medicinal plants, indigenous culture, and the river, utilizing Science, Art and Performance in creative representation of area findings.

• 1996 Baltimore School of the Arts, MD - Instructor: The Lear Project; 5 performance installations by 11* and 12* grade honor students based on the William Shakespeare tragedy King Lear.

• 1995 School for the Physical City, NYC - Consultant: Bridges Towards Sustainability; Natural Observation, Art Poetry and Design, Ages 13-16, Camp Minisink, Dover Plains NY.

• 1994 Maharishi International University - Visiting Artist: Graduate/Undergraduate Studio visits.

• 1994 University of Wisconsin Center, Richland - Visiting Lecturer: Earthworks; Story, earth mapping, geometrical design and cosmologies (Wisconsin Earth Effigy Mounds and larger context).

• 1992 Rhode Island Community College, Providence, RI - Visiting professor: Drawing.

• 1990 University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC Visiting Artist: Combining Media/Performance Workshop.

• 1990 Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ - Visiting Professor: Mixed Media Workshops.

• 1989-90 The New School for Social Research at Parsons, NYC - Lecturer: Painting

• 1989 University of Victoria, B.C. Canada - Visiting Artist: Advanced Painting/Combining Media.

• 1988-89 University of California, Davis, CA - Visiting Professor: Beginning Drawing, Advanced Life Drawing, Graduate/Independent Studies.

• 1988 University of Chicago, Chicago, DL - Visiting Artist.

• 1987-88 Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston, England - Instructor: Foundations, Life Drawing, Mixed Media.

• 1983-87 University of London, London, England - Instructor: Foundations, Life Drawing, Visual Research Media.

• 1984-87 Reading University, Reading, England - Visiting Instructor: Painting and Sculpture.

• 1984 Voss Summer School, Norway - Visiting Instructor: Large Scale Figure Drawing.

• 1982-83 University of California, Davis, CA - Visiting Professor: Beginning Drawing, Materials and Methods.

• 1976-79 Truro Adult Education, Cornwall, England - Instructor: Life Drawing, Still Life/Landscape Painting.

Solo Exibitions

• 2013 Studio 330, Brooklyn, NY "Old Glory “ (The Silver Screen ) film poetry performance

• 2011 Art Colony , Eureka Springs, Arkansas: installation, " Erinyes "

• 2011 Art Colony, Eureka Springs, Arkansas , "Furies " Sculpture and Painting

• 2007 Cross Gallery Saugerties, NY , Sculpture and Painting, New Work Adrian Frost

• 2006 Wilder, Catskill - An exhibit with Fion Reiley “Leda" Three 20 foot installations with painted text and photographs.

• 2004 239 Partition St., Saugerties, NY - Frost and exhibition of 14 large works entitled collectively 1492.

• 2000-01 Kingston, NY - “Styx”; Sculptural Installation.

• 1993 Dreamtime Village, WI - Earth Over Air: “StarMilk Memory in the Mid-West.”

• 1992 Rhode Island Community College - “Song of the Sea Wind.”

• 1990 Dodjak-Intemation, Tucson, AZ - “Available.”

• 1990 Dodjak-Intemation, Tucson, AZ - “The Curse.”

• 1990 Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - Performance with Jan Gallione.

• 1990 Tucson-Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ - “Silent Night.”

• 1989 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - “Tread Softly Lest You Tread on Their Dreams.”

• 1989 Dodjak-Intemation, Tucson, AZ - “Tread Softly Lest You Tread on Their Dreams.”

• 1989 SOHO 20 Gallery, NYC-Performance.

• 1988 Pentonville Gallery, London, England - “Requiem - Phoenix Rising- Triumph of Aphrodite.”

• 1988 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

• 1988 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA - “Requiem”

• 1987 Slaughterhouse Gallery, London, England.

• 1987 Warehouse Three, London, England.

• 1986 The Falcon Gallery, London, England.

• 1984 Pentonville Gallery, London, England.

• 1982 Pentonville Gallery, London, England.

• 1981 Hogarth Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

Group Exibitions

• 2018 Brews, Eureka Springs, AR "Mish and Mash"

• 2017 Berean Coffee House, Eureka Springs "Fragments"

• 2016 Brews, Eureka Springs, AR

• 2015 Brews, Eureka Springs, AR

• 2014 Indie Film Festival, Eureka Springs, Arkansas "The Return" poem/video bronze award

• 2014 May The Space, May Festival of the Arts, “Mother”

• 2014 May, Banking on Art, Eureka Springs, AR

• 2013 Studio 330, Brooklyn, NY: "Introducing Drew Gentle in NY "

• 2012 Studio 330, Bushwick as part of Open Studio Brooklyn NY

• 2012 Dallas Art Fair Weekend, TH Gallery , Dallas Texas

• 2012 Art Colony Eureka Springs Arkansas ."Memphis Blues Again”, painting/interactive dance performance

• 2011 Enthios Art Venue "Avante Garde in the Ozarks "

• 2009 Cross Gallery Saugerties, New York, painting/sculpture installation

• 2007 Kingston Sculpture Biannual, Kingston Prison, Kingston, NY - “Break Out.”

• 2007 Wilder Catskill - Sculpture. Siddhartha and Adrian Frost.

• 2006 Silent Space Gallery, Kingston, NY - Impact.

• 2006 Inquiring Mind Gallery, 65 Partian St., Saugerties, NY - “EROS” 5 person show.

• 2005 Wilder Catskill - “This is the Winter of our Discontent

• 2004 Bicket Gallery, Raleigh, NC - Selected Works: Six New York Artists.

• 2004 Inquiring Mind Gallery, Saugurties, NY - 5 Abstract Visions.

• 2003 239 Partian St., Saugurties, NY - Holy One.

• 2001 Davis & Hall Gallery, Hudson, NY - Ancestor Shit.

• 2001 Kingston Sculpture Biannual, Kingston, NY - Shelter.

• 2001 Up Front Art Gallery, Kingston, NY - Installation Performance, “/ Don’t Want To Know
  Where l Am, I Just Want To Control Where l Am.”

• 2001 Up Front Art Gallery, Kingston, NY - Installation Performance, “Let The Tears Fall Like Rain.”

• 2001 Up Front Art Gallery, Kingston, NY - Installation Performance, “You Say You Want To Live In Peace And Harmony, Then Don’t Even Recall My Name.”

• 1997 Nobles Mill, Darlington, MD - “Dream Machine/This Land is Your Land This Land is My Land.”

• 1997 Heretic's Gallery, London, England.

• 1991 Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC - “ In the Garden.”

• 1990 Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC - “Gender, Out of the Garden.”

• 1990 Barbara Fendrick Gallery, NYC - “The Book in Art- The Book as Art.”

• 1990 University Arts Gallery, UNC, Asheville, NC - “Concepts of Censorship: Silent Voices.”

• 1989 University of Victoria, B.C. Canada.

• 1987 Natsoulas/Novolosa Gallery, Davis, CA.

• 1987 Chisenhale Galleries, London, England.

• 1987 Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England.

• 1987 Gillian Jason Gallery, London, England.

• 1987 Falcon Gallery, London, England.

• 1985 Lamont Gallery, London, England.

• 1984-85 Cafe Gallery, London, England.

• 1983-84 Pentonville Gallery, London, England.

• 1983 Oxford Gallery, Oxford, England.

• 1980 Croperdy Gallery, Oxford, England.

• 1974-75 Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall, England.

• 1972-79 Penwith Gallery, Cornwall, England.

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Related Work:

• 2018 January “Lysistrata” 2018 International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece

• 2015 December “The Return” International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece

• 2014 October, “The Return”, Pollygrind Underground Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV

• 2014 May, Fresh Gallery, May Festival of the Arts, works related to the Frost/Athorpe award winning film

• “The Return” 2014 Jan, “The Return”, Eureka Springs Independent Film Festival

• 2007 Wilder - Catskill - “What Do You Yearn For?” dance, words, music painting/sculpture.

• 2006 The Colony Woodstock - “Fire in the Head”, narrative poetry music performance.

• 2004 The Pub. 26 Partition St., Saugerties, NY - Fire in the Head - Performance of three songs: “Fire in the Head; Song of the Sea Wind; Whore and the Holy One” with bagpipes and drums.

• 2000-01 New Paltz, NY - Consultant: Street Hamlet; Radical re-presentation of Shakespeare.

• 1999 Rosendale Street Festival, Rosendale NY - Rain Dance; I-Ching Hexagram, Pappage
  Story, TV weather channel verse, rainwear and rain makers, percussion, juggling, communal dance.

• 1998 Badlands 98 - Video documentation of Native American Festival including European Bands for Porcupine Reservation Aid.

• 1998 Academy of New Paltz, NY - Advisor: Burning Man graduation project.  Sculpture/Ritual/Rebirth.

• 1997-98 Academy of New Paltz, NY - Consultant: Building Oneself; 12th grade student's design, obtain planning approval and construct sustainable bale workshop/classroom.

• 1995 Outback Studios, NY - Recording of 4 original songs for “Spirit is Feisty, Spirit is Wild.”

• 1995 Hay Fields, Fairfield, IA - Dear Abby, Ritual performance of death and rebirth with chant and percussion.

• 1994 Schau Farm, Clinton County IA - Installation, documentation of Bill Witherspoon' s Offerings.

• 1994 Ghost Eagle Effigy Mounds Site, Muscoda, WI - Organized presentations by Rocky
  Mountain Institute on Sustainable Systems for the Winnebago/HoChunck Nation.

• 1993 WYOU TV, Madison, WI - Facilitator: Interactive Live Media Show; Poetry, Performance, Coordinate System.

• 1993 Grant from the Dane County Committee for Sensitive Crimes, Madison, WI - Video
  Production Co-Producer/Creator of “Abuse, The Loss of Abundance/The Art of Healing.”

• 1993 Appropriate Technology Workshop. Participant of on-site construction of an octagonal,
  straw bale earth house in Wisconsin. With Taliesin architect, R. Hofmeister.

• 1993 Eagle Township, WI - Participant: Surveying and delineating ancient Eagle Effigy Mounds.

• 1993 Sante Sioux Reservation, Flandeaux, SD - Design and Installation of Sacred Start Organic Garden.

• 1993 Dreamtime Village, West Lima, WI - Artist in Residence.

• 1992-93 Taku Skan Skan, WI - Facilitator: Buffalo Project; Art, Video Performance, Sustainability Research.

• 1992 Dreamtime Village, West Lima, WI - Permaculture Design Course; Integrating Art and Sustainable Living Systems.

• 1991 Human Rights Festival, World Gallery/Broadway Arts Gallery, Asheville, NC
  Collaborative Performance with the homeless, “Hello, We 're not at Home.”

• 1991 City Plaza, Asheville, NC - Earth Day Performance; “On, Sail On, Sale On.”

• 1990 Lenoir, NC - Annual Sculpture in the Park, “First in Flight”, First Prize

• 1990 Earth Day Art Action - "A " Mountain, Tucson, AZ.

• 1990 Tucson Cable Television, AZ - Video Production Workshop.

• 1988 Pentonville Gallery, London, England - Performance; “The Mermaid and the Minotaur.”

• 1988 Pentonville Gallery, London, England - Performance; “The Bride and Groom.”

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Skills:

• Works across all media from drawing, painting, performance, and film poetry.

• Knowledgeable in European, American and World art/literature/culture.

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Reviews:

• 2018 “Ozark Radio Hour” Interview with Daniel Krotz,
  https://www.buzzsprout.com/81205/651175-orh-2-24-17-mp3

• 2014 NPR interview with Christine Thomas, KUAF

• 2013 NPR interview with Jacqui Froelich, KUAF

• Nov 2012 Lovely Country Citizen “Encounter With A Vet”  

       http://www.lovelycitizen.com/story/1912038.html

• 2001 Woodstock Times”Burning Sage."

• 1993 Feminist Voices, “Art of Healing, Video Gives Hope.”

• 1991 Asheville Citizen, “Silent Voices.”

• 1990 Asheville Citizen, “Hello, We're Not at Home.”

• 1990 Tucson Citizen, “The Curse is Performance Art, Metaphor.”

• 1990 Tucson Citizen, “Controversial Art Won't Last Long.”

• 1988 Art Line International Art News, “Requiem.”

• 1988 Morning Star, “Phoenix Rising.”

• 1988 City Limits, Adrian Frost at the Pentonville.

• 1988 Davis Enterprise, “Requiem.”

• 1988 San Francisco, Kenneth Baker.

• 1987 City Limits, Adrian Frost at the Slaughterhouse.

• 1987 Arts Review, New Gallery.

• 1987 The Morning Star, “Sexual Images of Pleasure and Guilt.”

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~~ More Extensive Resume available on request ~~

References Available Upon Request:
Phyllis Poe, former head Clear Springs School,
Mary Springer ESSA,
Christopher Crane, Arkansas Film Commission