Norwegian artist Frank Brunner's exhibition “New Works” on view from April 16th to May 20th at Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts Gallery in New York.
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 image making.
Frank’s paintings may be referred as visual poems. They are a dictionary of psychic spaces and rites of passage. Many of his ideas about paintings are reflections, windows and mirrors that act as metaphors. They allow the artist to break up and deconstruct the image, in various ways.
This exhibition will include 5 somber studies of the suitcase, derived from photographs. Like Gerhard Richter, Brunner’s images are composed of progressively blurred objects that give the impression of memories fading with the passage of time.
The works are "melancholy and atmospheric...often about death, pain, and memory."
In this newest works, Frank continues his examination the nature of painting, expanding its boundaries by combining sculpture on the painted surface.
For more information about the artist, please see frankbrunner.com.