Ben Frost: Friends In High Places

Just one may perhaps not know what identify the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological Issues (DSM-5) would give to Ben Frost’s obsession with pharmaceutical packing containers. In truth, there is certainly a medication proscribed for a little something like this.

Frost’s check out is a subversive and brightly provocative look of heading off-brand name if you will. “Super Mario flies higher via a k-gap, Fred Flintstone and Grogu pass joints, and it is disclosed what type of ‘power pills’ Pac-Man is definitely gobbling,” says the push release from the Melbourne-dependent road artist/studio artist.

“Friends in Significant Locations is both of those a satirical critique of customer culture and a begrudging celebration of it,” suggests Frost. “Blurring the strains amongst the visceral and addictive working experience of drug use with the seductive products of consumerism, the exhibition explores our appreciate/detest romance with these goods and the people who market them to us.”

Opening at LA’s Corey Helford Gallery upcoming week, the new exhibition intently follows one more pop-influenced graphic artist, D*Deal with, whose skewering of industrial society is perhaps more subconscious, tinged with unhappiness. That would need a slightly distinct analysis and prescription.

Ben Frost. Close friends in Superior Places, opening at Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) on Saturday, September 17^th. Los Angeles, CA.