SoWa First Friday: March 6th 5-8:30

Reception & Artist’s Talk: Saturday, March 14th 2-5

Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11-5

In Debris, his ninth solo exhibition at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Chris Frost examines the residual material culture produced by everyday life. The exhibition considers detritus not as refuse, but as evidence; objects and fragments that register personal, social and historical experience. Markers of celebration, intimacy, loss and conflict persist long after their originating events creating an archive of lived behavior.

Frost works primarily in ceramics, a medium historically associated with utility, ornament and domesticity. His practice draws formally and conceptually from 18th century European figurative porcelains, particularly it’s depictions of everyday scenes and rituals. Like these historical precedents, Frost’s sculptures operate as cultural artifacts coding contemporary values and systems of consumption within materially fragile forms.

The works in Debris include freestanding sculptures, mixed media wall works and collage. Across these formats, Frost investigates the tension between permanence and disposability, labor and ornament, and material excess and aesthetic restraint. Ceramics, durable yet breakable, become a critical vehicle through which the artist addresses the contradictions embedded in material culture.