FRANK: inFocus Presents: Light Gestures
2024-09-24 00:00 - 2024-11-09 23:59 (America/New_York) | FRANK Gallery, 370 E. Main St #130, Carrboro, NC, 27510, United States
FRANK:inFocus is proud to be part of the annual Triangle-wide CLICK! Photography Festival showcasing the talents of photographers from around the world.

The month of October is an exciting celebration of photography with FRANK:inFocus “The Click! Photography Festival celebrates the medium of photography and its cultural influence by engaging the photography community with exceptional photo-based works, artists, and programming.” FRANK:inFocus will also feature FRANK member and guest photographers; Peter Filene, Bill McAllister, Barbara Tyroler, Ashlie Johnson Coggins, and Dan Gottlieb.

Please join us for this exciting month filled with engaging photography related events!

Opening Reception; September 27th 6-9pm

Artist Talk: October 19th 2-3pm; Ashlie Johnson Coggins, Barbara Tyroler, Dan Gottlieb, and Peter Filene talk about photography, their processes, and work on display at FRANK.

Sounds Bath Experience: October 19th 3:15pm; After the artist talk, stay for a sound bath experience led by Amanda Richardson.

2024 Holiday Exhibit
2024-11-12 00:00 - 2025-01-05 23:59
Excellent work from our FRANK member artists, guests, and many new artists will be on display in the gallery. This your perfect opportunity to find the right creative gifts for your loved ones. You’ll find a mix of large and small works at many price ranges. Gift local!

Featured Artists Exhibit Jan/Feb 2025
2025-01-07 00:00 - 2025-02-15 23:59
Join us as we ring in the new year with featured artists Gordon Jameson, Ley Killeya, and guest furniture maker Pete Rodrigues.

Opening Reception January 17, 6-9 pm

Gordon Jameson

An established abstract painter, Gordon relies on strong color and compositions of unique shapes. Much of his work’s narrative references western interpretations of Christian imagery, primarily the Annunciation and Enthroned Madonna. And so the figure emerges in Gordon’s paintings, shifting his works slightly away from complete abstraction.

Ley Killeya

Ley uses acrylic paint, ink, and gold metallic leaf to create her abstract figurative paintings. She focuses on the use of line and composition to represent parts of the body, adding unexpected dashes of color to break the surface and disturb expectations. Elements of gold leaf indicate the value we and others place on them. Her work helps us consider how our bodies, and the perceptions of them, confer power, limit rights, exercise control, and interrogate identity.

Pete Rodrigues

Pete crafts his fine furniture with a focus on both function and natural beauty. And within each piece of wood he sees similarities to human faults in the material’s cracks, twist, bows and rough cut edges. However, when worked by the master craftsman, the wood can be turned into something beautiful.

Featured Artists Exhibit Feb/Mar 2025
2025-02-18 00:00 - 2025-03-29 23:59
The gallery is featuring member artists Luna Lee Ray and Peg Bachenheimer, and guest artists Karli Pendergraft and William Moore.

Also on exhibit is a special selection of works by Cameroon artist Jean Michel Dissake.

Opening reception is on Feb. 21

Luna Lee Ray

Take a close look at the deep complexity of Luna’s layered mixed media surfaces. Then step back and let the mood and mystery of these abstract works reveal a truth in nature that cannot be conveyed through realism. Luna is inspired by the forms and processes of the natural world: cells and pods and clouds, wind and light and mist and rain.

Peg Bachenheimer

An intuitive painter, Peg starts thinking about color and feeling. She brings back memories of places she’s been, music she hears, and her experiences of place – especially in nature. The rich and vibrant applications of encaustic paint in Peg’s exhibited work explores the lush beauty of the garden. A colorful reminder that spring is on its way.

Karli Pendergraft

Karli’s organic sculptures seem to reach out and return on themselves — showing the interconnectedness of life, from the unseen networks beneath the earth to the vast, ever-changing rivers and oceans. The recent hurricane that devastated western North Carolina, where Karli lives and works, impacted all aspects of her world. It was a stark reminder of the power and fragility of nature.

William Moore

These wonderful works by William show how he pushes his materials of clay, glass and metals to their extreme. The resulting colors and textures are sublime. Shown internationally, William Moore’s work graces private and public collections, which locally include Duke University Chapel, Progress Energy headquarters, SAS Corporation, Glaxco Wellcome and the City Cary.

Jean Michel Dissake

Cameroonian artist Jean Michel Dissake’s sculptural works use found and recycled materials to represent a balance between nature and technology. He recently participated in this year’s Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art expo. It’s an honor to have Dissake’s work available here at FRANK Gallery, considering he is on the verge of becoming very well known internationally.

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Jean Michel Dissake
2025-02-18 00:00 - 2025-03-29 23:59
Sculptural Works

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Cameroonian artist Jean Michel Dissake’s sculptural works use found and recycled materials to represent a balance between nature and technology by weaving natural objects such as wood, vines, termite dust, water hyacinths, and palm fronds together with computer boards, aluminum wire, license plates, and car parts. These objects that embody energy from people around the world are sewn together with wire to celebrate diversity, restore souls and bring unity.

Informed by his cultural heritage as well as wisdom gained from living for nine years in a forest on the Mungo River, Dissake’s work invokes a dialogue on ecological and spiritual matters and speaks to timely issues of unity, love, and oneness with nature. Dissake asserts that “everything is linked” and seeks, through his art, to heal the Tree of Life.

These works are selections from a recent exhibit at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design called BABENGA: The Sacred Forest. The Gregg exhibit was co-curated by Marriott Sheldon, a Raleigh artist and guest artist at FRANK Gallery, and Roger Manley, former director of the Gregg Museum.

Babenga refers both to the village where Dissake’s grandfather was the local king for over fifty years as well as the idea of the continuity of humans – a ceremonial invocation of a future land and new spirituality where humans and nature thrive. Dissake’s understanding and deep respect for the natural world imbue the works with symbolism that serves as a wakeup call to realize our interdependence with nature.

Dissake is recognized as a visionary artist, philosopher and activist. He recently represented Cameroon with works exhibited in the 2024 Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art exposition. Jean Michel Dissake’s works were exhibited at the 2024 Dakar Biennale and included in many exhibitions in Europe. It is an honor to exhibit and offer Dissake’s works for sale here at FRANK Gallery, considering he is on the verge of becoming very well known internationally.

FROM THE EXHIBITION

Featured Artists Exhibit Apr/May 2025
2025-04-01 00:00 - 2025-05-17 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of photographers Peter Filene and Dan Gottlieb, and woodworker Keith Allen.

Opening Reception on April 11.

Peter Filene

In this vibrant series, Peter grapples with personal identities behind portraiture. He asks, “what is a portrait?” For the past two years, Peter has been collaging torn pieces of his previous photos to create new images. Does a photograph of a woman, set against a collaged background, portray her? When you look at Peter’s almost-abstract figures, do you see portraits?

Dan Gottlieb

The dream-like landscapes in Dan’s exhibit touch upon important places in his life. They share his aesthetic perspective of nature and our fleeting place within it – moving with light, wind, and breath. More gestural than documentary, Dan’s pictures reside in that gap between information and subjective perception.

Keith Allen

Keith’s wood furniture often features natural aspects of the material. His designs may be motivated by the material itself, or by the language found in songs, or everyday phrases. His intuitive way of understanding relationships and details helps his pieces evolve into something new and unique.

Featured Artists Exhibit May-July 2025
2025-05-20 00:00 - 2025-07-05 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Carol Retsch-Bogart, Nerys Levy, Linda Prager, and guest artists Leif Gann-Matzen and Pete Sack.

Opening Reception on May 23, 2025.

This show will also be the spotlight of a special event, The Artistic Palate: A Fusion of Art, Food, Poetry & Song, on June 1, 2025! Tickets are available now!

Carol Retsch-Bogart

A recent visit to Japan has inspired Carol’s encaustic wax, mixed media and printmaking work. She reacts to Japanese woodblock prints, graphic illustrations, amazing textiles of indigo, and floral silks. Carol’s own work is bold and colorful with a strong connection to nature and an emphasis on the simplicity and beauty of ordinary objects.

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Nerys Levy

Nerys’ work is inspired by her summer travel sketches in Great Britain and northern Italy. She then captures the energy of those sketches in paintings with bold lines and strong colors. The works in this exhibit show how, with simplicity of form and line, Nerys effortlessly conveys the mood and dimensionality of place.

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Linda Prager

Reacting to complexity in the world, Linda presents us rounded, simplified clay forms that bring a sense of quiet. These pieces abstractly speak of trees, sky, and birds. It is definitely Linda’s most painterly series of work. The painted surfaces show her expressive brushstrokes as color layers with color.

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Leif Gann-Matzen

Leif carves wooden sculptures from trees felled a stone’s throw from the Eno River. In the process of carving, he works not to impose but to follow. The long, flowing forms of Leif’s pieces present his memories of tree and river in solid beauty.

Learn more about Leif and view recent works on his website.

Pete Sack

This is the first time these pieces by Pete have hung together on exhibit. They represent his figurative and abstract works expressing both an internal reflection of personal experiences and external observations of the ways in which we engage with others.

Learn more about Pete and view recent works on his website.

"Scapes" Group Exhibit July-August 2025
2025-07-06 00:00 - 2025-08-16 23:59
Group Landscape show

This group exhibition will feature many of our FRANK member artists as well as several guest artists, including …

Peg Gignoux

Leslie Pruneau

Jane Filer

Karen Sosa

Sarah Graham

Alan Dehmer

Clarke Munford

Michael Winslow

Opening Reception on July 11, 2025.

This exhibition will be on view alongside our featured show July 6 – August 16.

Join us as we explore the definition of “Scapes” through different mediums and interpretations.

Featured Artists Exhibit July-August 2025
2025-07-08 00:00 - 2025-08-16 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artist R. Scott Horner, emerging artist in residence Lucas Bernard, and guest artists Chris Boerner, Paul Reamey, and Kerry Schroeder.

The gallery also features a group landscape show, “SCAPES”.

Opening Reception on July 11, 2025.

Lucas Bernard

As an oil painter, Lucas’ motivation to create stems from a desire to engage more intimately with the world around him. By spending hours closely observing an object, person, plant, or landscape, Lucas is able to build a personal connection to both his subject and the physical art he creates. Through this process, Lucas aims to highlight aspects of life that may seem insignificant or overlooked, inviting a deeper appreciation of the mundane.

Chris Boerner

Chris Boerner is an artistic woodturner, specializing in creating beautiful one-of-a-kind pieces of artwork from a variety of rare and unusual wood. Basically self-taught, Chris enjoys creating intricately and technically advanced artistic pieces. He searches for unusual wood from downed trees with dynamic color and grain which may have burls, holes, or bark inclusions. Though these characteristics add to the difficulty and danger turning the wood, it increases Chris’ excitement and determination to create a piece that is truly unique.

R. Scott Horner

In this exhibit, Scott is visualizing the many echos of self found in the things we create and the enduring actions that leave behind traces of our being. Our selves echo in the digital world, too. Giant data centers build virtual selves by assembling our online activities. Through repetition of key shapes, and creation of container-like forms, Scott explores the concept of self-related artifacts.

Paul Reamey

Paul is an artist and industrial designer currently working in glass, wood, and stone. He’s drawn to these materials both by the puzzle of joining them together and by a simple fascination of how they continue to interact in a finished piece. There’s something about the fragility of cold glass, the heaviness of stone and the soft, approachable nature of wood that makes coupling these materials particularly compelling.

Kerry Schroeder

Kerry Schroeder’s work is a metaphor for the search for answers in a world where they feel both close at hand and impossibly distant. She turns to nature as her visual language��layered, ever-changing, and complex, much like life itself. She considers her work expressionistic, blending gestural brushstrokes and spontaneous marks with representational forms, existing in the space between the tangible and the abstract. Her process is a constant push and pull—allowing what wants to emerge, working with what appears, and letting go of what doesn’t belong.

Featured Artists Exhibit August-September 2025
2025-08-19 00:00 - 2025-09-27 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Shelly Hehenberger, Karen Day, Natalie Boorman, Mary Lee Kerr and guest artist Alan Dehmer.

Opening Reception on August 22, 2025.

Alan Dehmer

Alan Dehmer’s work uses the gum bichromate printing process. Embracing both photography and printmaking this process leverages image making as time transforms layers of each piece. The end work carries an archetypal quality, like something from an old memory or a dream one can’t quite remember.

Alan Dehmer is a founding member of the FRANK Gallery, a published author, and a guest lecturer at NC State University.

Karen Day

Much of Karen’s work is rooted in a kind of personal excavation – visual and emotional. She thinks of her paintings as artifacts of an interior world, shaped by her dreamings of time and memory. Instead of something static or sealed, she imagines reliquaries in motion: shifting forms dissolving, evolving and reforming.

She builds layers of texture early on, then continues adding – sometimes scraping or masking areas to create visual moments of clarity, opacity, and depth. Her interest is in what is revealed, what remains hidden, and how meaning can live in the spaces between.

Mary Lee Kerr

For 40 years, Mary Lee Kerr has studied and created clay sculptures, gradually mastering the technical aspects of the medium and constantly searching for the best way to express her ideas.

Recently her larger work has focused on protection–of herself, her family and her community–and warding off the dangers of a threatening world. These figures are protected by shells, spines and claws, or hold talismans to ward off evil.

Natalie Boorman

Natalie Boorman has worked with clay for the past 40 years. Using the “Pinch Pot” method is meditative for her, allowing her to relax with the clay, interact with it, forming a relationship which is not always consciously developed.

Her finishing process includes burnishing, bisque firing the vessels in an electric kiln and then either fire them in a pit or a raku kiln, both variations of what’s known as smoke firing. Smoke firings are unpredictable, spontaneous and intriguing. Not for anyone needing a sense of control!

Shelly Hehenberger

Shelly’s recent work is inspired by the quiet but always industrious processes of regeneration at work in the earth around and below our feet. Sometimes slowly, sometimes with remarkable speed, forces break apart one form of life to make another, like a child assembling her blocks to build a form that is at once demolished to make another, and another. Her art process reflects this means of invention as her surfaces are composed of elements carved from other compositions and then reconstructed, creating a snapshot of life mid-leap from one embodiment to the next.

FRANK: inFocus
2025-09-30 00:00 - 2025-11-08 23:59
FRANK: inFocus is proud to be part of the annual Triangle-wide CLICK! Photography Festival showcasing the talents of photographers from around the world.

The month of October is an exciting celebration of photography with FRANK:inFocus “The Click! Photography Festival celebrates the medium of photography and its cultural influence by engaging the photography community with exceptional photo-based works, artists, and programming.”

FRANK:inFocus will feature FRANK member and guest photographers; Barbara Tyroler, Dan Gotlieb, Tama Hochbaum, Tim Walter, and Gadisse Lee.

Please join us for this exciting month filled with engaging photography related events!

Opening Reception and Second Friday: October 10th 6-9pm

Photography Panel Discussion: October 29th 6-7pm 2-3pm

Featured Artists Exhibit September-November 2025
2025-09-30 00:00 - 2025-11-08 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Barbara Tyroler and Donna Stubbs, and guest artists Tama Hochbaum, Wyatt Speight Rhue and Carmen Elliott.

Opening Reception on October 10, 2025.

Barbara Tyroler

Barbara’s practice embraces dual nature—photography’s grounding in reality and its capacity for transformation. She explores how the camera can reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary, how technical choices can shift meaning, and how the act of selection itself becomes a form of interpretation. Her work explores the tension between documentation and expression, between the world as it appears and as it might be understood.

Carmen Elliot

Carmen creates terra cotta sculpture and pottery for home and garden. She is particularly interested in making forms that are expressive, and that may evoke a sense of mystery or humor, the fragile or the wild, or a kind of renewal that can unfold between maker, viewer, and the thing created.

Donna Stubbs

Donna’s paintings emerge from an exploration of color, materials, and line. Through repeated layering of drawn marks, organic shapes, and shifting tones, she creates compositions that carry both rhythm and movement. Her work builds abstract spaces that invite close looking, offering viewers layered narratives of memory, intuition, and discovery.

Tama Hochbaum

Tama Hochbaum creates photo-art that internally alludes to drawing and painting sensibilities, which she layers and aligns with photographic processes. This body of work uses a combination of photography and drawing and pulls beauty and joy from the artist’s garden, an Arcadian site of inspiration and pleasure. Tama works to make a final image that exists as if it were assembled from remembered scenes; an image that presents as if it were composed from manifold bits and layers over many hours at an easel.

Wyatt Speight Rhue

Wyatt designs, builds, and sculpts furniture in his studio in eastern North Carolina. His practice explores traditional modern forms while embracing playful and unexpected uses of materials and construction methods. For his body of work, Wyatt presents a collection of bowls and vessels turned on the lathe, as well as side tables carved, turned, and sculpted directly from logs. These works highlight his dialogue with raw wood — where natural shapes and irregularities become guides for form rather than obstacles to overcome.

2025 Holiday Exhibit
2025-11-11 00:00 - 2026-01-04 23:59

Featured Artists Exhibit January-February 2026
2026-01-06 00:00 - 2026-02-14 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Bill McAllister, Carroll Lassiter, and Ley Killeya.

Opening reception is on January 9, 2026.

Bill McAllister

This series features photographs from Bill’s 2009 trip to Siem Reap, Cambodia, which was one of the most memorable and productive photographic experiences of his life. Using infrared and pinhole cameras, Bill captured images of 13th-century temples, among other subjects. This group of photographs includes a mix of the historical architecture, landscape, and the people who inhabit this amazing country.

Carroll Lassiter

The landscapes Carroll paints are places where she feels most alive, and many are tied to family roots in eastern North Carolina. She remembers creek fishing trips — first with her father and later with her son — as hours of contentment with bursts of excitement thrown in. Carroll’s oil paintings convey the physical and emotional essences of these specific places.

Ley Killeya

Across cultures and traditions, the songbird carries symbolic meaning. In Ley’s new paintings, the songbird symbolizes her deeply felt connection with her sons, who fill her with unending joy, happiness, and optimism. The limited primary palette in this collection closely ties the pieces together, weaving them with threads of color that speak to and support one another, representing the complex interpersonal fabric of our lives. The titles of individual pieces are drawn from poems and song lyrics.

Featured Artists Exhibit February-April 2026
2026-02-17 00:00 - 2026-04-04 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Luna Lee Ray and Gordon Jameson, as well as guest artist Ronan Peterson.

Opening reception on February 27, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.

Luna Lee Ray

Water is Life. In this body of mixed media work, Luna has drawn inspiration from her longstanding love of water in all of its forms: rain, ocean, river, and mist. Her newest pieces call to mind the play of light through moisture in the air and the smell of the ground when dampened.

Gordon Jameson

Gordon’s work is informed by divergent sources, from the cult imagery of the Virgin Mary to multi-thousand-year-old Native American pictographs, to current events and early Renaissance art. Through these sources, he engages his paintings in a conversation that is intuitive, cathartic, and serendipitous. Gordon’s acrylic paintings develop over time, sometimes months or years, like a garden, always alive and changing.

Ronan Peterson

Using red earthenware clay, Ronan layers slips, terra sigillatas, and glazes, with wax resist patterning, to create highly decorated earthenware vessels. While his ceramics start with a functional basis, they feature cartoon representations of compositions you might find lying on the forest floor, crawling across the bottom of the ocean, or hovering in space over the surface of a gas giant planet. Ronan hopes viewers and users get a sense that his pots could just slither away if they avert their gaze for too long.

Featured Artists Exhibit April-May 2026
2026-04-07 00:00 - 2026-05-16 23:59
The gallery is proud to feature the work of member artists Amy Deystone, Susan Finer, and Susan Paulsen, as well as guest artists Jane Filer, Selden Lamoureux, and Gadisse Lee.

Opening reception on April 10, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.

Susan Paulsen

Joe Paquet urged artists to “paint the Grand Canyon in your own backyard,” and Susan has taken this advice to heart with her oil paintings. The animals, fields, and farms of Orange County are some of her favorite subjects. Susan’s second passion is still life painting, which allows her to freely explore color, composition, and viewpoint. Every material offers a challenge and an opportunity to explore the quality of light.

Susan Finer

Responding to visual and tactile memories, Susan constructs abstract terrains on fabric, mark by mark, stitch by stitch, and layer by layer. She draws, paints, and sews — by hand and machine — on material that she finds, buys, or creates herself by sewing together scavenged scraps. In Susan’s work, ragged rips and untidy snippets interact with orderly lines and grids. These encounters reflect her fascination with the connections and disconnections between chaos and order, and natural and built environments.

Amy Deystone

This collection of ceramic work gives voice to Amy’s complicated process of grieving the passing of her abusive father. It is a part of her ancestral healing path, exposing what has long been hidden, tending to her inner child, and offering her what no one else could. These ceramics lean into Amy’s interest in the human emotional experience and how our ideas, thoughts, and feelings take up space and bubble out into the world. Amy hopes the resonance of these vessels reaches your inner landscape and helps you to feel more deeply.

Jane Filer

Jane believes the vehicle to a higher plateau in human consciousness is understanding that infinite, unfathomable realities exist. This knowledge helps her approach painting with wonder and discovery, allowing her work to speak to her. It can tell her new kinds of stories and take her to other places.

Gadisse Lee

With an emphasis on solace, isolation, and experimentation, Gadisse bases her fine art photography on life experiences she’s had and how she chooses to resolve them. Self-portraiture is her lifelong project because it is Gadisse’s way of connecting with her inner child, and she hopes it connects with others.

Selden Lamoureux

With a background in archaeology, Selden is drawn to objects that seem both ancient and outside of time. Her handcrafted pottery reflects influences from the ancient Dead Sea Scroll jars to contemporary paintings and fellow North Carolina potters. Above all, Selden tries to stay focused and honest while working, because that is what becomes embedded in the clay.

Featured Artists Exhibit May-June 2026
2026-05-19 00:00 - 2026-06-27 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Peg Bachenheimer, Elijah Kell, and Carol Retsch-Bogart, as well as guest artists Sasha Bakaric and Clarke Munford.

Opening reception on May 22nd from 6 to 9 PM.

Carol Retsch-Bogart

Carol’s artistic curiosity has led her into printmaking, silk-screening, encaustic wax, and painting. But it is her love of collage that is most apparent in her work. For this exhibition, Carol has combined textiles, prints, inks, paint, and more. To provide some structure (and a challenge), she has limited herself to working on nine vertical panels that evoke totems.

Peg Bachenheimer

An intuitive, nature-inspired artist, Peg paints with encaustic, oil and cold wax, and acrylic. Building up and scraping back many layers of color and texture, she works on a painting until it feels complete and expresses what she sees and feels. With her latest series, Peg attempts to bring some light into the world at this chaotic and dark time in our country.

Elijah KellKELL GLASS

Elijah creates intricate glass sculptures that capture light, color, and movement — balancing fragility with strength. He crafts and fires each piece meticulously, transforming flat sheets of glass into fluid, sculptural forms. Elijah first worked with glass art at the age of ten, and that experience sparked a deep connection that has since defined his artistic journey and career.

Visit KellGlassArt.com to learn more.

Clarke Munford

Working with oil paint and drawing from archival black-and-white photographs, Clarke depicts the unforgiving nature of early agricultural life in North Carolina. Following his last series of monochromatic underpaintings, Clarke’s current work features full-palette imaginings of obscure historical scenes. This collection investigates the degree to which modern agriculture has departed from the practices of a century ago.

Reference Image Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina

Sasha Bakaric

Inspired by the vibrant colors of tropical oceans and lush vegetation, Sasha’s newest collection of ceramics highlights the beauty of nature in a world that has felt dark and heavy to her for some time. Working with white stoneware clay coated with colored terra sigillatas, Sasha uses slip trailing, sgraffito, and a mix of commercial and custom glazes to build intricate surfaces.

Second Annual Scapes Exhibit June-August 2026
2026-06-30 00:00 - 2026-08-15 23:59
Group Landscape Show

Join us as we explore the definition of “Scapes” through different mediums and interpretations.

This group exhibition will feature many of our member artists and guest artists, and it will be on view alongside our Featured Artists Exhibit from June 30 through August 15. Opening reception on July 10, 2026.

TrainScapes by member artist Barbara Tyroler

Scapes Guest Artists

Alan Dehmer

Alison Gilbert

Clarke Munford

Dan Gottlieb

Jane Filer

Joan Meade

John Rosenthal

Leslie Pruneau

Lucas Bernard

Luke Buchanan

Mary Rountree Moore

Sarah Graham

Suzan Scribner-Reed

Will Taylor

Featured Artists Exhibit June-August 2026
2026-06-30 00:00 - 2026-08-15 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Natalie Boorman and Nerys Levy, as well as FRANK Emerging Artist Lah Boh and our Youth Art Group.

We are also featuring a group landscape show, our Second Annual Scapes Exhibit.

Opening reception on July 10, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.

Nerys Levy

Nerys is a plein air artist who has traveled extensively documenting Earth’s landscapes. Her largest bodies of work focus on the Polar regions, Italy, and Great Britain, particularly Wales. This exhibition features two elements of Nerys’ British series: the Cardiff Bay series and the Crowhurst, Surrey series. The Crowhurst paintings were executed on site using mixed media watercolor on paper.

Natalie Boorman

For ceramicist Natalie, who’s been around sheep most of her life, sheep have a calming influence and remind her that humans aren’t the only species on earth. Working alongside the FRANK Youth Art Group for the past few months, Natalie has created imaginative ceramic sheep, glazed and fired in her raku kiln. This show also features Natalie’s traditional pinch pot forms fired with the “naked raku” method. This special kind of raku firing is “naked” because the glaze pops off at the end of the firing, and what’s left is a clay slip, sometimes stained blue.

Lah Boh

BP’s 2010 oil spill was the largest in human history. In this series of oil paintings, FRANK Emerging Artist Lah focuses on the environmental impacts of such disasters. His work explores the quiet, suffocating violence that pollution inflicts on the natural world. By combining that theme with surrealism, Lah aims to expose the unvarnished reality of our ecological footprint, transforming abstract environmental statistics into visceral landscapes of neglect.

Youth Art Group

Fourteen years ago, FRANK Gallery formed the Karen Youth Art Group to support newly arrived refugee students. Now called the FRANK Youth Art Group, most of its students are still from the Karen Community, and the program continues to provide educational enrichment to and serve as artistic inspiration for the students. The current cohort has students between 9 and 20 years old. To date, the program has worked with close to 200 students, many of whom have gone on to further and higher education as a result of this educational enrichment program.

Recognition: Contemporary Lumbee Art
2026-08-18 00:00 - 2026-09-26 23:59
This special exhibition is in honor and celebration of the Lumbee people becoming the 575th federally recognized Tribe. Our featured artists include Karina McMillan, Christopher Kennedy, James D Malcolm, Jesalyn Keziah, and Ariana Chavis.

This showcase will be on view alongside our Featured Artists Exhibit from August 18 through September 26.

Opening reception on August 21, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.

Karina McMillan

Karina’s work explores identity, memory, and cultural continuity through the lens of her experience as a Lumbee artist. Through drawing, printmaking, painting, and mixed media, she creates visual narratives that reflect the connections between personal history, Indigenous heritage, and the stories carried across generations.

Christopher Kennedy

Over the years, Christopher has worked in oils, graphite, and colored pencil mediums. This show, celebrating the recognition of the Lumbee people, has allowed Christopher to revisit memories that helped shape him as a man and artist. His featured art offers glimpses into those memories.

James D Malcolm

James is inspired by the unique pattern of the Longleaf Pinecone, which serves as the insignia of his tribe, the Lumbee. His work explores the creative possibilities of foldable materials, especially silk ties. James primarily designs and creates Longleaf Patchwork for Regalia worn by girls and young women competing in annual Lumbee Pageants.

Jesalyn Keziah

As an Indigenous artist, Jesalyn is drawn to clay for the naturally grounding and centering practice of working directly with the soil of the earth. Her pottery and other art frequently feature native plants, animals, symbolism, and stories from the natural world as an exploration of these relationships.

Ariana Chavis

In her paintings, Ariana crafts a narrative of Indigenous resilience symbolized by corn and feathers. Used for survival and in spiritual traditions, these objects impacted generations of her ancestors, and Ariana explores that legacy in her work.

Featured Artists Exhibit August-September 2026
2026-08-18 00:00 - 2026-09-26 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artist R. Scott Horner, FRANK Emerging Artist Julia Nagle, and guest artist Ivana Beck.

We are also featuring an exhibition of Contemporary Lumbee Art in recognition of the Lumbee people becoming the 575th federally recognized Tribe.

Opening reception on August 21, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.

R. Scott Horner

Scott’s new series of abstract paintings urges us to find the human form in seemingly random sets of shapes, lines, and values. He isn’t representing the body, but reacting to it. This work focuses on bodies at rest to eliminate as much context as possible — beyond the body itself.

Julia Nagle

When viewed from a unique vantage point, everyday vistas can feel alien. In her new series of oil paintings, FRANK Emerging Artist Julia Nagle highlights this mystic beauty. Inspired by photos taken while traveling, her atmospheric paintings depict terrain from around the world.

Ivana Beck

Through her sculptures and drawings, Ivana portrays the resilience, flexibility, and adaptability passed down by the women in her family over generations. Materials that she continues to use — brick, wax, and mortar — remind her that what is strong and durable can also be vulnerable and ephemeral.

FRANK:inFocus 2026
2026-09-29 00:00 - 2026-11-14 23:59
FRANK:inFocus showcases the work of artists, educators, and photographers who use the lens as a stimulus for creating meaningful imagery in their professional practices. This year, our featured artists are Tim Duffy, Bettina Molina, Jo Ann Tomaselli, and Wojtek Wojdynski.

This showcase will be on view alongside our Featured Artists Exhibit from September 29 through November 14.

Opening reception on October 9, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.

Tim Duffy

Tim Duffy is a renowned photographer and folklorist who has documented traditional artists in the South for nearly five decades. He and his wife Denise founded Music Maker Foundation in 1994 to assist roots musicians in need and preserve American musical traditions.

Tim creates one-of-a-kind direct positive tintype portraits of American artists, musicians who are the living expression of our nation’s cultural legacy yet remain little known. Shot with a large format camera using a tintype process that dates back to the nineteenth century, Tim’s masterful photographs celebrate these creators, custodians, purveyors, and performers of American music.

Bettina Molina

Bettina’s series documents the everyday lives of women in India, from the quiet concentration of daily labor to the shared rituals of tea that welcome a stranger into the home. It is not travel photography, but a study of hospitality, resilience, and the dignity found in ordinary work and connection between women.

Bettina is a Colombian documentary photographer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, trained at EFTI in Madrid, whose work explores culture, identity, and the human experience. Her practice spans documentary, commercial, and portrait photography, with a recurring focus on women, ritual, and everyday resilience.

Jo Ann Tomaselli

A visit with the Suri in Ethiopia introduced Jo Ann to women untouched by modernity, living in deep connection with their ceremonial traditions and heritage. These portraits invite you into their secluded world — resilient, beautiful, profoundly human and full of grace.

“Defining myself as a particular type of photographer is not possible as every moment behind the lens offers an opportunity to share images of the people, cultures and landscapes that touch me deeply. My inspiration? Color, shape, design and the most delightful factor of all ~ fun!”

Wojtek Wojdynski

Wojtek is a fine art photographer based in Chapel Hill. His work celebrates the beauty and emotion found in everyday life, with a special focus on people, inviting the viewer to slow down, reflect, and discover the beauty and meaning with fresh eyes.

Wojtek’s work offers a glimpse into the lives of women in the streets of Havana, Cuba. Through moments of work, resilience, and everyday life, these photographs celebrate the strength, dignity, and spirit of the women who shape the city’s vibrant rhythm.

FRANK:inFocus is a project of the FRANK Gallery Community Outreach program, offering innovative and inclusive art and photography events, while forming partnerships among a diverse population of artists and our neighbors. We thank the UBS Bank for supporting FRANK:inFocus 2026.

Featured Artists Exhibit September-November 2026
2026-09-29 00:00 - 2026-11-14 23:59
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Shelly Hehenberger, Mary Lee Kerr, and Donna Stubbs, as well as guest artist Polina Varlamova.

This exhibit will be on view alongside FRANK:inFocus from September 29 through November 14. Opening reception on October 9, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.

2026 Holiday Group Show
2026-11-17 00:00 - 2027-01-02 23:59
Excellent work from our FRANK member artists and guests will be on display in the gallery. This is your perfect opportunity to find the right creative gifts for your loved ones. You’ll find a mix of large and small works at many price ranges. Gift local!

Opening reception on November 20, 2026 from 6 to 9 PM.
