“Keep Out,” by Columbia, SC artist Campbell Frost, featured in the Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center’s “Windows in Time” exhibit. (Provided)
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(WCIV) — The Orangeburg Fine Arts Center will celebrate Campbell Frost, the recipient of South Carolina’s highest arts honor, the Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement, with an exhibit showcasing his works.
The exhibit, running until Aug. 11, titled “Windows in Time,” will feature a collection of representational and hyper-realism art created over the past 50 years, along with several newer surrealist pieces.
The exhibition will open on the evening of June 18 with a public gathering at 6 p.m. in the Lusty Gallery, located upstairs in the Fine Arts Center at 649 Riverside Drive, Orangeburg.
Campbell Frost has been a prominent figure in the Orangeburg Arts Community for over 25 years, teaching oil and acrylic painting techniques to many senior artists in the region.
Since earning his fine arts degree in 1972 from the University of Tennessee, Frost has taught more than 20,000 students in various settings, including a maximum-security prison, high school and college classrooms, and even from the back of a truck touring 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, his art is licensed internationally and featured on products ranging from digital jigsaw puzzles to quilting fabric. Recently, Frost decided to offer some of his favorite original paintings, dating back to the early 1970s, to collectors.