Featured Artists Exhibit for July/August 2020

Featuring Charlie Dupee, Susan Finer, Rosalie Midyette, Theresa Pastoriza-Tan

JULY 9TH-SEPTEMBER 5TH

Please join us on July 9th for the new exhibit in the gallery featuring Charlie Dupee, Susan Finer, Rosalie Midyette, and Theresa Pastoriza-Tan. In their debut featured show at the gallery, FRANK is excited to showcase the work of the four artists in a highly creative and stunning exhibit showcasing a variety of mediums.

Charlie Dupee has been the “emerging apprentice artist” at FRANK for the last year, and as a cumulation of the program with the gallery, Charlie will be the featured artist for the July and August exhibit. Creativity knows no bounds with the artists current body of work, combining his own life experiences, experimentation with materials, systematic racism, and the playfulness of color, Charlie is able to visually tell a story with a supremely unique and creative approach. In his own words; “Unquestioned intuition, capitalism, and the KKK have influenced my current work direction: queer, kitsch American-nonsense.” FRANK is really proud of Charlie and excited that he will be staying around town to start his MFA program with UNC in the Fall.

Showing for the first time at FRANK, Susan Finer, is a fiber and mixed media artist. Susan draws inspiration from …“ ancient craft 20th century masters of painting, sculpture, illustration, textiles, and music; and textures found in nature.” Combining fabric pieced and stitched together, both hand and machine stitched, Susan creates elegant abstract fiber works mixing purposeful and organic stitchery in a muted color palette often with pops of color.

Also exhibiting for the first time at FRANK is ceramic artist Rosalie Midyette. Drawing directly from her background of growing up in North Carolina and being inspired by a childhood spent playing in creeks and the woods, Rosalie’s sculptures are organically shaped with lustruous, pearly mica finished. Rosalie’s sense of tranquility and calmness when creating each piece comes through when viewing her work, each with a sensuous finish and rounded form evokes feelings of her life experiences.

A favorite artist during the last holiday show, Theresa Pastoriza-Tan will be a featured artist for the first time at FRANK for this July/August exhibit. A member of the Durham Art Guild, Theresa’s mixed media work is as much about the end result as the process itself. Ethereal abstract landscape’s with a luscious color palate often dabbed with bits of gold and bright colors and using a variety of materials all lead to a beautiful, dreamy work of art.

We hope that you can visit this exceptional exhibit when it will be up from July 9th-September 5th. We will be practicing safety and health precautions in the gallery and in doing so will not be having an opening reception nor in-gallery artist talks.