Analogue Books

During the 90's Phil Frost devised an immediately recognisable art on the streets of New York, covering walls and scrapped materials - old doors, tables and objets trouvés - with a white texture that fuses primitivism, graffiti, street art and graphic design.

Following this trace of extraordinary visual impact, which recalls Australian and Hawaiian pictorial languages, the book Frost reconstructs the evolution of a graphic cipher rich in abbreviations, symbols and stylised logos that give this self taught artist's works the primordial character of tribal articles.

Born in Jamestown (NY) in 1973, Phil Frost has held several solo exhibitions including at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia (2002) and the Spiral Museum Cultural Center in Tokyo (2001). Through the collective exhibition Beautiful Losers his works have been seen all over the world. He currently lives and works in New York.

text by Carlo McCormick
Published by Damiani Editore
ISBN: 8862080248
162 pp, hardcover, 275mm x 275mm