James Frost
Featured in the following exhibitions:
Art Is Keeping Us Alive brought together an extraordinary collection of donated artwork from artists who share a common conviction: that independent arts spaces matter, artists deserve places to be seen, and creative communities are worth investing in.
Big Ideas. Tiny scale.
An exhibition dedicated to artwork measuring no larger than 12” x 12”.
Up In Smoke explored smoke as both subject and metaphor: transformation, ritual, rebellion, celebration, escape, destruction, healing, memory, and impermanence. Featuring artists working across a wide range of media, the exhibition embraced the cultural, political, medicinal, and symbolic meanings of smoke without prescribing a single narrative.
Throughout history, artists have documented injustice, challenged power, inspired movements, and given shape to ideas that words alone could not express. Protest: The Art of Activism celebrated that legacy through a powerful exhibition of contemporary protest art and activist artwork from more than 60 artists working across Southern California and beyond.
Red Light District was an adults-only exhibition exploring intimacy, desire, identity, power, fantasy, vulnerability, and the complicated relationship between sexuality and censorship. Featuring artists working across a wide range of mediums, the exhibition invited viewers to move beyond shock value and into conversations that are often hidden behind closed doors.
Mommy Dearest explored the broken, bizarre, painful and occasionally hilarious realities of family life. Through painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture and mixed media, the exhibition confronted motherhood, inherited trauma, grief, control and the complicated relationships that shape who we become.
Pray the Gay Away used humor, satire and fearless honesty to confront conversion therapy, homophobia and the hypocrisy of trying to “fix” queerness. Unapologetic and intentionally uncomfortable, the exhibition celebrated queer voices, allyship and art’s power to rattle cages.
Don’t F&$€%ing Touch Me marked James Frost’s debut solo exhibition at Not Shockboxx. Combining Old Master oil-painting techniques with surreal imagery, pop culture and deeply personal storytelling, Frost created a vivid world that was technically precise, quietly layered and entirely his own.