Eduardo Arranz-Bravo

A Rock in the Landscape

Franklin Bowles Galleries is pleased to host this expansive collection of paintings and works on paper of Eduardo Arranz-Bravo to commemorate our nearly 30 years of artistic collaboration.

Zane York

A Delicate Balance

Zane deftly walks the line between playfulness and profundity. His paintings imbue seemingly quotidian scenes with elements of the fantastical and unreal, calling into question the distinction between the grotesque and beautiful, the real and artificial, and death and life.

Pierre Boncompain

winter exhibition 2024

Pierre Boncompain inevitably returns to explore a beloved repertoire of motifs.
He unfolds them for us --and sees them with us --with each new painting.

pierre marie brisson

Flight of Fancy

Saturday, November.18, 2023

Flight of Fancy is the new collection of paintings by Pierre Marie Brisson celebrating decades of presence at Franklin Bowles Gallery. In 1985, a soaring young French painter, Brisson was given his first solo exhibition by the American art dealer in his San Francisco gallery. Spanning over forty years, this exhibition is a reverence to the artist’s fantastic journey that has since unfolded.

Miquel Gelabert

AFTER THE LANDSCAPE 2023

. Miquel Gelabert's painting evolves from an analytical and purifying perspective towards a spontaneous and warm expression of the same forms as always – triangles, gestures, layers, horizon lines. His painting is governed, thus, by an incorruptible internal coherence based on a difficult balance between change and permanence.

Larry Horowitz

Between Nature and Abstraction

“My secret is my ability to blend the plein air tradition as practiced by Corot and Monet with contemporary push/pull abstraction brought to the United States by Hans Hoffman and handed down to Wolf Kahn and others.” -Larry Horowitz

Agusti Puig

Episodes in Painting

In this collection, Puig reveals an examined life thoughtfully portrayed. Heads are often a single, voyeuristic eye. Portraits are icons. Lust is a muse. Numbers and grids lament our symbiotic relationship with technology. Allusions to music, both written and played, resound ecstatically as a concert. These episodes invite us to reflect on our place in the world through our relationship with others and ultimately ourselves. 

eduardo arranz-bravo

big love

Franklin Bowles Gallery is proud to present our first comprehensive solo exhibition of work from Barcelona-based Eduardo Arranz-Bravo since 2019.  These recent paintings, most created during the pandemic times to recent months, offer a deep look into a time of explosive creativity from the artist.  Never one to rest on his laurels (of which there are many), these recent paintings perfectly capture the hallmark elements of the artist’s work: Energy, passion, poetry, and then love.

LISA LEBOFSKY

Lisa Lebofsky’s recent paintings present serene representations of nature, but populated by struggling landscapes visually dominated and dissected by varied brush work and exposed layers of paint. To convey the ephemeral environment, Lebofsky paints on grounds that permeate the image.

miquel gelabert

"The theme of Forgotten landscapes comes from my imagination as always. Memories, light, space, atmospheres, colors, shapes, geometries...the environment that surrounds me.”

PIERRE BONCOMPAIN

Pierre Boncompain (Valence, b 1938) is a contemporary French painter with a distinguished career and an extensive international exhibition history spanning more than five decades. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Musée de Valence and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montélimar, France as well as numerous public collections throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Franklin Bowles Galleries has proudly represented Pierre Boncompain since 2009.

LARRY HOROWITZ

In plein air, there are thousands of stimuli bombarding me; the constantly changing light, the sounds and animals inhabiting the woods, the briny smells of the distant sea…they all influence the truth I tell. I cast a wide net, collecting more information than I will ever need. The unedited manuscript is then brought into my studio for a long distillation process. I spend months creating light and space. At some point the painting develops a heartbeat, a life of its own where feelings can exist.

ZANE YORK

Zane York’s work is instilled with a passive unreality. They are quiet paintings that veil their intent. While the viewer sees expected scenarios of traditional still life painting, elements are shifted, heightened, or otherwise transformed. Key to this altered state is the transmogrification of insects into flower forms, which build into bouquets suspended over typical and atypical vessels. The interest is not in creating the surreal; rather, seating real elements in an unreal scenario; evoking a fresh consideration of the otherwise staid or mundane. Fully embraced in this conceit is the idea that beauty and absurdity are not counterpoints, but rather intertwined and complimentary components of our reality.