New York-based Frank Brunner is a contemporary painter who fuses traditional paintings with ideas drawn from recent history. His work has been dealing with the artificiality of nature and the complexity of imagemaking. This is his first major New York exhibition of paintings.
45˚ is a series of paintings revolving around the artists' exploration of pictorial elements inspired by the composition of liquid reflections in New York parks and public spaces. Such spaces include the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Central Park, the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art and the front entrance of the Metropolitan Museum. In this new body of work, the artist has expanded and challenged his style: the surface of the paintings have been worked over and over again; employing a dripping device whilst the canvas lay horizontal on the ground and re-introducing figures into his repertoire, an element he has not embraced in over ten years of his artistic career.
After completing his degree in painting at the National Academy in Oslo, Norway, Frank Brunner spent a year studying at the Iliya Repin State Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. He then relocated to the US to study at Yale University, where he graduated with a MFA in 2000.
Opening reception: Thursday, November 10, 6-9 pm
When: Thursday, November 10 – Friday, December 23. Tues-Sat, 10am-6pm
Where: Cynthia Broan Gallery, 546 West 29th St, NYC
Info: (212) 760-0809