June 13 – July 18, 2026

The exhibition, the artist explains, “consists of examples from six years of work, continuing my ongoing investigation into various facets of Mexican American/Chicano culture as it relates to the American experience. I utilize found objects and found images to create a series of non-linear narratives that investigate notions of memory, loss, trauma, resilience, and a certain undeniable presence (and at times very deliberate absence and/or erasure) within the larger culture.”

June 13 – July 18, 2026

Each of Brane’s five modestly scaled (typically 22 x 18 inches) artworks centers a semi- abstract / semi-representational image which remains somewhat vague if always richly suggestive. Each of these is then set into its own thickly painted “frame”—the frame itself often much more densely and elaborately rendered than the painting it ostensibly frames—and each is “illuminated” by one or more decorative light fixtures fed by an electrical cord dangling down to the plug below, this functional element thus completing the comic ensemble.