Mark Frygell

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View works. Mark Frygell, The Solstice, 2024
The Solstice, 2024
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Mark Frygell’s works depart from the history of painting, sub-cultural images and cartoons. He repeatedly manipulates and reworks gestures, references and materials, inspired by different methodologies of painting. His interest lies in concepts such as caricature, the grotesque and the comic.

 

His most recent works explore his own relationship to the figurative painting, the still-life and landscape painting as carriers of collective consciousness, moral symbols and identity. In line with these interests, his reuse of forms, colours, compositions, themes and expressions of a certain painterly language form an important part of Mark Frygell’s method. Starting with quick drawings made directly on the pages in books that he reads, or on different found materials, he then refines and process the motifs, shifting materials and formats before working with oil on canvas. Through these different stages, he explores the motives and finds new shapes and forms.

 

Mark Frygell (b. 1985 in Umeå, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden) has studied at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria. His work has been shown in the Moderna Exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and other recent exhibitions include Public Art Agency, Stockholm; Västerbotten's Museum, Umeå, Sweden; and Härnösand Art Gallery, Härnösand, Sweden.

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Works
  • Time on the Jetty
    Mark Frygell
    Time on the Jetty, 2024
  • Two in Boat
    Mark Frygell
    Two in Boat, 2024
  • The Builder
    Mark Frygell
    The Builder, 2024
  • An Outlaw
    Mark Frygell
    An Outlaw, 2024
  • At Play
    Mark Frygell
    At Play, 2024
  • Drawing by the Pond
    Mark Frygell
    Drawing by the Pond, 2024
  • Inner Yard
    Mark Frygell
    Inner Yard, 2024
  • On the Bridge
    Mark Frygell
    On the Bridge, 2024
  • Piles and Rubble
    Mark Frygell
    Piles and Rubble, 2024
  • The Homestead
    Mark Frygell
    The Homestead, 2024
  • The Neighbour
    Mark Frygell
    The Neighbour, 2024
  • The Solstice
    Mark Frygell
    The Solstice, 2024
  • The Tower
    Mark Frygell
    The Tower, 2024
  • Tales from the Village in Frames
    Mark Frygell
    Tales from the Village in Frames, 2024
  • Red Square
    Mark Frygell
    Red Square, 2023
  • The Furnace
    Mark Frygell
    The Furnace, 2023
  • Holy Building I
    Mark Frygell
    Holy Building I, 2023
  • Holy Building II
    Mark Frygell
    Holy Building II, 2023
  • Conservatory
    Mark Frygell
    Conservatory, 2023
  • Lobby
    Mark Frygell
    Lobby, 2023
  • Place of Worship
    Mark Frygell
    Place of Worship, 2023
  • Grow House
    Mark Frygell
    Grow House, 2023
  • Meeting Point
    Mark Frygell
    Meeting Point, 2023
  • Suburbs
    Mark Frygell
    Suburbs, 2023
  • Statehouse
    Mark Frygell
    Statehouse, 2023
  • The Bridge
    Mark Frygell
    The Bridge, 2023
  • Bipolar Times (Human)
    Mark Frygell
    Bipolar Times (Human), 2022
  • Camp for People
    Mark Frygell
    Camp for People, 2022
  • Central Outskirts Sweatshop
    Mark Frygell
    Central Outskirts Sweatshop, 2022
  • Blanket Landscape Painting
    Mark Frygell
    Blanket Landscape Painting, 2022
  • Sinking Statues
    Mark Frygell
    Sinking Statues, 2022
  • Dictatorship Square
    Mark Frygell
    Dictatorship Square, 2022
  • Camp for People
    Mark Frygell
    Camp for People, 2022
  • Central Outskirts Sweatshop
    Mark Frygell
    Central Outskirts Sweatshop, 2022
  • Blanket Landscape Painting
    Mark Frygell
    Blanket Landscape Painting, 2022
  • Sinking Statues
    Mark Frygell
    Sinking Statues, 2022
  • Blue Valley
    Mark Frygell
    Blue Valley, 2021
  • Figure with Round Box
    Mark Frygell
    Figure with Round Box, 2021
  • Yellow Group
    Mark Frygell
    Yellow Group, 2021
  • Green City
    Mark Frygell
    Green City, 2021
  • Orange Couple
    Mark Frygell
    Orange Couple, 2021
  • Purple Event
    Mark Frygell
    Purple Event, 2021
  • Red Figure
    Mark Frygell
    Red Figure, 2021
  • Turquoise Place
    Mark Frygell
    Turquoise Place, 2021
  • Awkward Pose
    Mark Frygell
    Awkward Pose, 2021
  • Heads
    Mark Frygell
    Heads, 2021
  • Oasis
    Mark Frygell
    Oasis, 2021
  • Landscape 5
    Mark Frygell
    Landscape 5, 2020
  • The pruner
    Mark Frygell
    The pruner, 2020
  • The plateau
    Mark Frygell
    The plateau, 2020
  • Landscape 1 (Yellow)
    Mark Frygell
    Landscape 1 (Yellow), 2020
  • Landscape 6
    Mark Frygell
    Landscape 6, 2020
  • Group Picture (Night)
    Mark Frygell
    Group Picture (Night), 2019
  • Brawl
    Mark Frygell
    Brawl, 2019
  • Thinker III (Confusion)
    Mark Frygell
    Thinker III (Confusion), 2019
  • Fermenting Janus
    Mark Frygell
    Fermenting Janus, 2019
  • Tall Still Life
    Mark Frygell
    Tall Still Life, 2019
  • The Race
    Mark Frygell
    The Race, 2019
  • Janus runner
    Mark Frygell
    Janus runner, 2019
  • Still Life IV
    Mark Frygell
    Still Life IV, 2019
  • Hands
    Mark Frygell
    Hands, 2019
  • Hero
    Mark Frygell
    Hero, 2018
  • Der Reiter (Mr. Competence)
    Mark Frygell
    Der Reiter (Mr. Competence), 2018
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