Found Objects, And THe Missing Pictures

The paintings of Frank Bruckmann
and photographs of Sean Kernan

March 20 — April 19, 2026

Opening Reception: Sunday, March 22, 2–5pm, with Artists’s Talk at 3pm
Gallery Hours: Friday – Sunday, 12–5pm

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Sunday Soup in the Gallery  
Sunday, March 29 — 6-8pm
BYO Bowl and something ready to share (ie: sliced baguette, cookies, wine!) for this “souper” gathering to commune around Found Objects. 
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Frank Bruckmann, with Found Objects, plummeted into the classic painting style of “trompe l’oeil”, a French phrase meaning “to deceive the eye". A novel style for him, Bruckmann has painted items that look realistic enough to reach out and grab, while remaining engaged with mark-making and painting textures to achieve an intriguing abstract background. Quite the learning curve on its own, Bruckmann also works through a condition he has, amblyopia, which affects his binocular vision and depth perception. This has challenged him to attempt comprehension of spatial relationships, aiming to create a sense of depth. Of the subject matter, Bruckmann says, “these represent very distinct aspects of my current life: my painting studio, family, travel, relaxation, and a glimpse into my exercise regimen.”

Sean Kernan has conjured two distinct themes that dwell in the ephemeral - mood, echoes, chill air and moving light, present, then not, now only existing in his photographic images. The Missing Pictures: a mysterious old house in an open field…changes as seasons pass outside. It is both an old building and a space in the mind, brought into liminal existence first by the seeing and then with the images. No place… No date… No caption: a matrix of images made years and miles apart. Viewers are invited to look for the meaning which hovers just at the edge of vision.