Ben Frost
| September 01, 2008

Ben Frost (1979),  visual and performing artist. Original from Sydney, Australia. If by any chances Andy Warhol and Roy Liechtenstein had a kid and raised him together, that kid would now be Ben Frost.

Ben Frost is most well known for his confronting and often controversial Pop Art paintings. Using a ‘collage’ style of unlikely juxtapositions, his dynamic paintings are complex mash-ups of popular culture that savagely critique our media and advertising obsessed society.



Ben’s work has appeared in countless magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Australian Art Collector, Empty, Monster Children, and the Sydney Morning Herald and was a contributing illustrator for over 3 years to Black + White Magazine.





Revitalized pop art used as a critique to mass produced media, concepts and behaviour. I've been studying pop art for my BD's and Ben's work is an objective reflection of all the idealism from this particular movement. The usage of comics, disney and anime commercial characters, the naive pornography, the advertisement thing like logos, everything about his paintings provoke a certain feel of anxiety and a moral itch.

And I perfectly love to scratch moral itches.

Link:  Ben Frost is Dead

Tags:  ben frost, design, illustration, painting, pop art

Topic: Fine Art