On Saturday, April 26, 2025, painters Kim Frohsin and Sandy Ostrau got together at Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco, California to have a conversation about Frohsin's paintings in her exhibition "Kim Frohsin: Selected Figures from the 1990s".
Artist Information
Kim Frohsin was born and raised in Atlanta, GA, and went on to study at l’Institut pour les Etudiants Etrangers in Aix-en-Provence, France, and San Diego State University, where she earned a BA in Humanities and French. She later earned a BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco in 1988. She has received numerous awards and honors throughout her over thirty-year career, including nominations for the 2014 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Grant, the 2013 Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, and the 1995 SECA Award at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Kim Frohsin’s works can be found in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA; Harnett-Hall Gallery, Minot State University, Minot, ND; Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA; and the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR.
San Francisco based painter Sandy Ostrau earned her BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has received awards from the Gualala Art Center in 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2011, as well as an honorable mention in the Statewide Painting Competition Exhibition at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, CA, in 2012. Her works have been exhibited extensively in California and the East Coast, and can be found in many private collections.