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‘SIMON FROST: NIMBUS’ ON VIEW AT PETER BLUM SOHO IN NYC

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NEW YORK CITY — Peter Blum Gallery presents the exhibition “Simon Frost, Nimbus,” on view through May 10, at Peter Blum SoHo, 99 Wooster Street.

For Frost’s third exhibition at Peter Blum Gallery, “Nimbus,” the artist presents a major body of new work with more than 80 drawings and monotypes rendered in gouache, ink, oil pastel, watercolor, silverpoint, graphite and graphite powder.

Frost’s works displays his ever-deliberate examination of mark making. His drawings explore complex repetition of a line or shape that grows into rhythmical, delicate and contemplative form. Circular vortexes, soft arcs, radiating and spilling forms predominate the works exhibited in “Nimbus.”

He has typically worked on drawings for more than a year, each day adding marks, a routine act that he practices to record that particular moment in his life. More recently, Frost’s marks have become larger, a result of utilizing new methods of application such as thumb prints and larger brushes, yet retain the same interest in routine acts of marking, repetition and circular form.

He was inspired to make the new group of monotypes in “Nimbus” after experimenting with the printing technique using found objects. The monotypes reiterate Frost’s interest in rigorous structure, yet here what appears at first as solid form reveals upon closer look the delicate surface and texture of the paper, created by Frost’s variations of pressure during the printing process.

Frost works on a variety of specialty papers that range in thickness, and their inherent textures are often revealed through his marks. Frost will at times rework the paper, rolling or hammering it, creating a battered rough texture.

For more information, www.peterblumgallery.com or 212-343-0441.