Summer exhibition to honor Campbell Frost

See lifetime achievement recipient’s artworks in Orangeburg

The Orangeburg Fine Arts Center is set to recognize Campbell Frost, lifetime achievement recipient of South Carolina’s highest arts honor—The Governor’s Award for the Arts—with an exhibit of his works titled Windows in Time.

Campbell Frost in action.

Frost’s works will appear in the Center’s Lusty Gallery. The exhibition opens with a public gathering at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 18 and runs through Aug. 11. The show includes works of representational and hyper-realism created over the past 50 years and several newer surrealist pieces.

The Lusty Gallery is located upstairs in the Fine Arts Center (649 Riverside Dr., Orangeburg).

Though a Columbia resident, Frost has been affiliated with Orangeburg’s arts community for more than 25 years. It is estimated that he has taught oil and acrylic painting techniques to more than 20,000 people over the years, including many members of the Orangeburg area’s senior artist population. That dedication was a major contributor to his being recognized with the Governor’s Award. He taught classes in venues ranging from a maximum-security prison to a high school and college classrooms, and from the back of a truck touring some of South Carolina’s underserved communities.

Frost’s first published work, a pencil sketch, appeared in the late Robert Ripley’s daily “Believe it or Not” newspaper feature in the mid 1950s. Today, images of Frost’s art are licensed internationally and appear on products ranging from digital jigsaw puzzles to quilting fabric. In the last year, he decided to finally offer his favorite original paintings, some dating back to the early 1970s, to collectors.

Learn more about Frost on his website.

Keep Out (detail) | Campbell Frost | Oil