05/23/2026
Alessandro Berni Gallery is pleased to announce Gesture, Perception, Identity, a three-person exhibition featuring Lauralee Franco, Eva March and Denise Jones Adler.
Lauralee Franco’s () powerful abstract works will be featured in this exhibition. Franco engages directly with the enduring legacy of Abstract Expressionism while resisting its gravitational pull toward repetition. As critic Peter Frank observed, “Lauralee Franco, for instance, has inherited the Abstract Expressionist mantle without disappearing into it. She has fit its energy to her vision and refined her vision with its energy.” Franco’s paintings carry the force of gesture without collapsing into spectacle. Their choreographies of marks, eruptions, and suspended forms evoke what Frank described as “the chaos of your brushes and paints is the true gesture.” Her canvases hover between cosmic vastness and personal intimacy, where abstraction becomes both emotional record and existential navigation.
✨Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 6–9 PM
🗓️Exhibition Dates: June 4 – June 14, 2026
📍511 West 25th Street, New York, NY
📸 Lady Rider, 2024, Oil paint, charcoal, pencil on linen, 58" x 78"