Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg

This expansive debut survey showcases the visual work of Rick Fröberg (1968–2023), an artist and musician best known for his fliers, posters, and other artwork promoting the Southern California punk scene. Fröberg’s experimental offset printing techniques, parodies of animation art and corporate logos, and frantic compositions graced posters for bands like Rocket from the Crypt and the New Pornographers, and labels like Headhunter Records and Sub Pop. But this volume goes well beyond Fröberg’s rock art, devoting chapters to his fine art prints, sketches, paintings, digital art, and more. Despite his embrace of imperfection and “direct stokes, not masterstrokes,” Fröberg was an exceptional craftsman, the collection shows, equally capable of startlingly realistic traditional illustration, Cubism-inspired abstract art, and outlandish cartoon pastiches in the style of 1960s underground comix. The only disappointment is the book’s lack of text; aside from a foreword, an afterword, and a brief artist’s statement, there’s no commentary on the art, not even labels explaining when or why a piece was produced. It’s a vivid retrospective of an eclectic artist that will leave some fans itching to know more. (Jan.)