Justine Frischmann

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Justine Frischmann with Elastica (1995)

Justine Elinor Frischmann (born September 16, 1969 in Twickenham ) is a British-American musician and contemporary visual artist . She became known in the 1990s as the front woman of the British band Elastica . She has lived in the USA since 2005 and is dedicated to painting .

life and work

Justine Frischmann's mother is of Jewish-Russian origin. Her father, Wilem William Frischmann (born in Hungary in 1931 ), survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and was liberated by Soviet soldiers in 1945. At the age of 15 he emigrated to Great Britain. He became a successful civil engineer and was responsible for striking London structures such as the Center Point high-rise, Tower 42 and Drapers' Gardens . Justine Frischmann describes him in an interview in 2016 as a “positive” and “world-hugging” person. She attended St Paul's School in London and wanted to be an artist, but at the request of her parents, she studied architecture at University College with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1989. She has been engaged in music and writing songs since she was eleven .

music

In London she was involved with her boyfriend Brett Anderson in founding the Britpop band Suede , in which she played the second guitar. In the following years she formed her own band Elastica together with Damon Albarn , the singer of Blur , which released the debut album of the same name in 1995, for which Frischmann wrote all the pieces. It became number one in the UK charts, was nominated for the Mercury Prize and was also successful in the US. Elastica was one of the leading alternative rock bands of the 1990s, known for the androgynous glamor of their members, which Frischmann shaped. She was a guitarist and singer, the lead singer of the band whose sound of monochromatic Punk - aesthetics and its monotonous voice in which she Sex was determined sang. The music press called her "The First Lady of Britpop". Their importance is compared to that of Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse . After the second album, The Menace , released in 2000, she ended her music career. Drugs, jealousy, and problems resulting from Damon Albarn's bipolar disorder caused Elastica to break down . During this time Justine Frischmann learned that mental health ( English sanity ) is more important than success.

She then worked as a journalist, television and radio presenter . In 2003 she hosted the BBC's architecture program Dreamspacers . In the same year she was a juror for the Stirling Prize . In 2004 she presented the art show The South Bank Show on Independent Television . She has published articles on art and culture for the British fashion magazine iD and the pop magazine The Face . For the last time she wrote a song called Galang for her friend MIA in 2003

painting

2005 Justine Frischmann moved to the US to conform to the private Tibetan Buddhist Naropa University in Boulder (Colorado) in contemplation to make informed and the San Francisco Art Institute Fine Arts to study. Her series of abstract paintings with the title Lambent ( German:  gently glowing, shimmering ) are inspired by the experiences and feelings of her spiritual search during this time. To do this, she used photographs on thin aluminum plates, which she alienated in light colors with oil, acrylic and enamel spray. For Frischmann, painting is a meditative process. Your subject is light. She works with mixed media , combining airbrush with oil paint on masonite , wood or canvas. For her Demiurge series, she sprayed neon colors in pink, yellow and green, which created a fluorescent effect, and painted over them with broad brushstrokes in white and black oil paint. She has been exhibiting in the USA since 2010. In 2016, the George Lawson Gallery in San Francisco held its first solo exhibition and presented its work at the international art fair Volta in New York. In a 2016 interview with The Guardian , she said that she no longer had any desire to make music. She found her medium in painting.

Justine Frischmann has lived with her husband, a scientist, in San Rafael in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2008 .

Web links

Commons : Justine Frischmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Justine Frischmann , in: Rubinstein, W., Jolles, Michael A. (Ed.): The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History , Palgrave Macmillan (UK), 2011, ISBN 978-1-4039-3910- 4 , p. 305
  2. ^ A b c d Andrew Smith: Elastica limits , The Observer, March 10, 2002
  3. ↑ Elastica , Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic
  4. ↑ The rubber soul of Frischmann comes bouncing back, The Independent, April 24, 2017
  5. ↑ Anthony Leaver: Elastica Review , BBC Music, 2007
  6. ^ A b Alex Needham: Justine Frischmann: waking up from Elastica to art in America , The Guardian, May 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Justine Frischmann, short biography on Artslant
  8. ↑ George Lawson: In Multimedia Works, Justine Frischmann Captures the Effects of Light , George Lawson Gallery website, San Francisco, April 22, 2016
  9. ↑ Meet the Painter Justine Frischmann , Eclectic Magazine, October 12, 2013 ( Memento from September 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Frischmann, Justine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frischmann, Justine Elinor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American Britpop musician (Elastica) and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 16th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Twickenham , London