FRANK Featured Artists Exhibit | April - May 2026
Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Venue: FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill
Price: Free
Category: Arts
The gallery is featuring the work of member artists Amy Deystone, Susan Finer, & Susan Paulsen as well as guest artists Jane Filer, Selden Lamoureux, & Gadisse Lee. Opening reception is on April 10, 2026. - 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