Frank Brunner

FRANK BRUNNER (1971-) is a well-established artist with education from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, Ilja Repin State Academy in St. Petersburg and Yale University in New Haven, USA.

The volatile is a red line in Brunner’s subjects, quiet moments that exist here and now and are gone again in the next second. Often depicted through mood-bearing lights, shadows and mirrors.

During Frank Brunner’s major debut exhibition at the Stenersen Museum in 2000, all the paintings in the New Haven series were acquired by Gallery Haaken. Since then he has been closely associated with Gallery Haaken and exhibited in reputable galleries in both the United States and Europe. Brunner’s paintings are found in public and private collections both nationally and internationally. In Norway, he has exhibited at the Henie Onstad Art Center and the Stenersen Museum, and in 2012 he had a big solo exhibition at the Haugar Vestfold Art Museum.

Printmaking are an important part of Brunner’s oeuvre and he works with great craft precision, and is skilled in both the making if etchings and litographs. Not uncommonly, he mixes various graphical techniques in one and the same pressure, which gives a depth effect and a tactility that enhances the visual expression.

Brunner is always looking to combine the contradictions between the calculated and the impulsive. The motifs themselves often have an ambiguity, balancing between urban and rural, between culture and nature.

(source: https://www.fineart.no/kunstner/frank-brunner)