EAST LIVERPOOL -- The Ohio Valley Regional Arts Council opens its 2009 season with a reception for Columbiana fine art photographer Bob Frost from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Kent State University’s Mary Patterson Gallery, 213 E. Fourth Street, downtown.
The exhibit features 28 color and black and white prints drawn from the artist’s body of work. Frost will give a brief talk and answer questions about his craft at Thursday’s reception. Anyone interested in photography and the arts is encouraged to attend this free event.Frost uses a traditional 4x5 view camera and develops his own prints using Pyro-Metol Kodalk—a high definition-developing agent for black and white prints.
Born in Franklin County Tennessee, Frost studied math and chemistry in college. Although his grandfather introduced him to photography, it was his involvement with a local photography club when he was 20 years old that inspired him to pursue photography as an art form.
Beyond the East Liverpool showing, Frost is busy organizing an upcoming exhibit at Youngstown’s Butler Institute of American Art—a series titled “Artist Portraits” that features photographic portraits of artists of all kinds, from painters to musicians.
He has exhibited at the Butler before and currently has prints for sale in the museum’s shop. Frost also has shown his work at the Butler Museum Salem branch as well as the Friends Rosteri in Salem.
The Kent State exhibit runs Feb. 12 to March 5. Gallery hours are noon to 2 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
