“Endless Summer” Solo Exhibition debuts new paintings by Frank Lepkowski, opening to the public on Saturday, June 7 from 6-9PM.
His second solo exhibition with the gallery continues a deeply personal exploration into memory, media, and the act of image-making.
Building on his previous series of work presented in Afterimage (2021), where media and collective visual experience served as a primary lens, his new body of work turns inward again—toward the intimacy of individual memory and the emotional resonance of moments we strive to preserve.
The paintings in ”Endless Summer” are a reflection on how we freeze time: first through the immediacy of a smartphone photo, and then through the slow, interpretive act of painting. What begins as a digital image becomes transformed—embellished, romanticized, reimagined—until it’s no longer just a captured moment, but a memory distilled.
At the heart of “Endless Summer” is the tension between the fleeting nature of lived experience and the permanence we try to assign to it. The glossy, hyper-corrected digital photo becomes a metaphor for nostalgia itself—a polished, perfected version of a moment that may have been far more complex in reality. These paintings are not merely nostalgic; they interrogate nostalgia’s illusions.
They ask what it means to want a moment to last forever, and what we lose in that pursuit. As the title suggests, there’s a yearning here—for an eternal beauty, an unbroken serenity, an endless summer—that digital life tempts us with, but ultimately cannot provide.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, June 7 from 6-9PM to experience Frank Lepkowski’s luminous, memory-soaked works in person.
About the Artist
Frank Lepkowski explores the role of modern technology in society, both in his subject matter and his artistic process. He builds software and web applications that rely on human touch as the primary form of interaction. Intertwining these digital tools and analog techniques, he creates multi-layered compositions that reflect the noise and stimuli of the digital age.
His work has been commissioned publicly by Louis Vuitton, Takoi and Complex Media. He is a recipient of the 20/20 Emerging Artists Fellowship through Playground Detroit and the Knight Foundation. His work has been featured in Complex Media, Acclaim Magazine and Oyster Magazine. He has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at Playground Detroit (Detroit, MI), LVL3 Gallery (Chicago, IL), and Skylab Gallery (Columbus, OH) and has shown his work internationally in group shows. He most recently had a solo booth presentation at Future Fair in New York City. Frank is also a special lecturer in Oakland University’s department of Art and Art History.
