PRESS RELEASE
September 2008
For Immediate Release

“As a boy, I loved reading adventure books: Huck Finn, The Last of the Mohicans, Treasure Island. The excitement engendered by these tales of exploration and intrigue was not easily contained. I responded by creating objects and structures, sets to be used in my own personal reenactments of the stories.” –C. Frost

Frost is enamored with the child’s approach to playfulness, with its immediate connection between perception and action. His new work seeks to revisit these childhood creations, in which elements of everyday reality become strongholds of the imagination. Beyond simply disclosing the playful, carefree, make-believe of the child, he also wants to inject the more serious needs of the adult. Onto straightforward creations of pure play are grafted elements of permanence, obsessiveness and value, perhaps even grandeur, characteristics that exceed the scope of a young boy, but for an adult have come to define the importance of objects. The result is a hybrid of the care-free and the care-full: structures and objects that reference the child’s world of spontaneous fantasy while standing firmly in the world of “grown-up” contingency.

Frost’s work will be showing concurrently with the sculpture of Maggie Stark.

Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, September 3 – October 5.

First Friday Receptions: September 5 and October 3, 5 – 8pm.
South End Open Studios: September 20 & 21, 11 – 6pm

Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12 – 6pm

Contact:
Jean Mineo, Director
617-482-7781
info@bostonsculptors.com

or

email Christopher Frost