My diverse interests in life have always encompassed a creative component. From dancer to designer and printmaker to chef, these endeavors all embrace line, form, and color at their core. The collision of these varied interests create opportunities for unique self-expression through art.
Artist Bio
Frossene King was born in California, and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband Larry. She has an MFA in Graphic Design and a BFA in Printmaking. She taught design at the Community College level for many years. He is a mechanical engineer and after retiring from his career at Hewlett Packard, he now teaches woodworking at CNM Community College.
To find a path to create artwork together, Frossene is returning to the art and design world after running Kalamata 505, a wholesale pastry and catering business that she owned and operated for 8.5 years. Larry brings his woodworking skills and engineering background to fuse ideas into wood. They have optimized each other’s strengths to form a small artisan company called King Art & Design Studio.
About King Art & Design
King Art & Design Studio is woman owned and operated by Frossene King, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Frossene is an artist, printmaker and designer. She creates colorful SW themed artwork inspired by the surrounding mountains, nature and the culinary scene in ABQ.
Working in a new medium, Frossene creates SW inspired designs that she and her husband build into charcuterie boards, jewelry boxes and other small wood items created from scratch. Iconic images like red and green chiles, the Sandia mountains, olive branches and dragonflies are a few favorites that she has designed to incorporate into their woodworking. Frossene also does the epoxy work. Then, Larry makes magic happen in the shop. Both are learning wood turning!
Our goal is to draw attention to the natural beauty of wood and use it to create functional pieces to bring the outdoors inside. We create jewelry boxes with unique handles and joinery, charcuterie boards with iconic wood or epoxy in-lay imagery, turned bowls and other products that connect my Greek heritage or our Albuquerque surroundings to useful items that bring the outdoors inside. We use traditional and modern techniques to create enduring pieces that celebrate nature’s beauty.
We joke to each other that the woodworking is the Pre-Pulp division of the company, and the printmaking is the Post-Pulp division. That is the best way we can define how our two art mediums come together!
You can find these items for sale at local Albuquerque craft markets including The Railyards and The Daily Grind.
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