A Washington Post review in 2004 added that Frenn is “an artist's artist (as opposed to a critic's artist).”[10] In that same year, in discussing an exhibition of Frenn's works at Darmouth The Lebanon Daily Star newspaper noted that "you might think it would take a lot to upstage an artist like Damien Hirst, but earlier this year Chawky Frenn did so with ease."[44]