Exhibitions

The Peale is Baltimore’s Community Museum.

Trust the Paint | Paintings, Works on Paper

Francine Halvorsen

On View June 25 – August 16, 2026

2nd Floor | Latrobe and Garden View Galleries

Gallery wall with three large abstract paintings, each with a vertical wooden edge, left-to-right blue, black, and orange-toned works with a white wall background.
Abstract painting with a pale blue-gray background and two horizontal color blocks: gold on top and teal below.

Left: Pictured from left to right, Luciform Blue, Luciform Black, Luciform Variegated.

Above: Lucarne II

About the Artist:

Francine Halvorsen is a Baltimore resident and skilled artist. A graduate of Columbia University, Halvorsen has exhibited in New York at PS 1 of the Museum of Modern Art, The Clocktower, Cooper Union, and Pace University Gallery. During her time in Baltimore, she has exhibited  at Works on Paper in Philadelphia, the Walter Gomez Gallery, Gallery de Botschaft in Baltimore and the Creative Alliance. 

Halvorsen on her works:

Each painting reflects innumerable echoes and afterimages, as filled with itself as a landscape. I want to generate not only a visual impression but a place, lucid and generous, first seen in the eye/I of the painter and then by the viewer, caught unaware, as when walking you see yourself reflected in some surface that causes you to pause, stop still, and look at the view. 

Exhibition poster for Francine Halvorsen 'Trust the Paint' with paintings and works on paper; Parallax I: oil and powdered pigment on linen. At The Peale Museum, 225 Holiday St, Baltimore, MD 21202. Opening: Saturday, June 27, 2026, 2–4pm. Showing June 27–August 16, 2026.
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