Re: Rick Froberg.
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2026 5:37 pm
Every time I hear his voice it courses through me like a thousand volts AC.
I really thought I would just stumble into this living in San Diego, but here I am, ordering it onlineIsaac wrote: Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:42 amGot weirdly emotional going through this book last night. A very scant amount of writing, but what's there hits hard. Sohrab's piece was lovely, as was Rick's own 'artist statement' at the start of the book.tallchris wrote: Wed Jun 25, 2025 1:04 pm There's a book of Froberg's art getting published late this year. You can pre-order just the book or get an extra print and zine:
https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/plenty-for-all/
https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/pl ... -preorder/
Super prolific. Don't know why that was a surprise, but here we are. Just so much work. Little nuggets of things that would show up earlier in his artistic life that would reverberate later on. Something of a feel akin to seeing old tatoo parlors from the 20's and 30's, or at times like Russian prison tats? But a lot more, of course. I don't shit about fuck when it comes to art, but it has HEART. All of it.
Anyway, only met the dude a couple times. He was lit the second time I met him, and the Obits show was weird because of it. But even in that state he shined bright.
Hot Snakes forever and always.