Drawing
2011
Images in this show were viscerally derived; I knew the piece was ‘done’ when the emotion it expressed equaled the emotion in my gut. I use representation to reach directly to the heart and soul of the viewer.
Fromm’s new drawings possess a near demonic energy...these dark visions, executed with frenzied expressionistic strokes in varying combinations of mixed mediums...are concerned with universal themes...They force us to identify with writhing or contorted figures whose nudity is devoid of sensuality by evoking these moments in life that reduce us to our quivering meat essence.” “Fromm denudes [the act of drawing] of the distancing device of aesthetics.”
– Ed McCormack, Gallery and Studio, Nov/Dec2010/Jan2011
Matriarch – charcoal, wax, ink, oilstick/on acetate, 31”x18”
#1 – pastel, litho crayon/pastel paper, 17.5”x12”
#5 – charcoal, litho crayon/charcoal paper, 18”x23.5”
#6 – charcoal/charcoal paper, 19”x24”
#11 – Pastel, mixed media/charcoal paper, 18”x24”
#7 – charcoal/on paper, 21”x25”
#9 – charcoal/on paper, 18”x23.5”
#15 – Pastel, mixed media/ledger white paper, 9”x12”
#13 – Pastel, mixed media/ledger white paper, 19.5”x12.75”
#12 – charcoal/on paper, 22”x35.5”
#16 – charcoal, litho crayon/charcoal paper, 18”x24”
#19 – charcoal, pastel,pencil, litho crayon/charcoal paper, 17.5x12”
#21 – charcoal/tinted charcoal paper, 12”x4.5”
