Franco
Works
Synchro Drive
12’’
Sympathetic Sensitivity
12’’
Endothelial Plasmodium
22’’
Hypnotic Siren
22’’
Spellbound
22’’
Emanation
33’’
Fixed Paralysis
33’’
Distillate
44’’
Amalgam
44’’
Galvanized
44’’
Karmeleon
18’’ x 18’’
Burst
18’’ x 18’’
Harmonic Overlay
18’’ x 18’’
Cognitive Infiltration
18’’ x 18’’
Syncopated Pulse
18’’ x 18’’
Episodic Sensory
18’’ x 18’’
Stimuli
18’’ x 18’’
Exteroceptive
18’’ x 18’’
Retrograde Signal
18’’ x 18’’
Self Illuminating
18’’ x 18’’
Interoceptive
18’’ x 18’’
Presence
18’’ x 18’’
Syncopated Interval
18’’ x 18’’
Cognitive Dispersion
18’’ x 18’’
Introspect
18’’ x 18’’
Motor Cortex
18’’ x 18’’
GoTo
12’’
Network Flow
12’’
Control Flow
16’’
Subgradients
16’’
Remote Source
22’’
Data Mine
33’’
Hypergeometric
39’’
Polyphonic Sensitizer
44’’
Argon
51’’
Transmutation
12’’
Transduction
12’’
Interfacial Tension
12’’
Taus
12’’
Muon
16’’
Reactive Flux
22’’
Resonance Energy
33’’
Arcturus
39 1/4’’
Synthase
59’’
Virion
12’’
Reaction Centre
12’’
Cosmotron
16’’
Prism
39’’
Veilance
33’’
Virtual Tunnel
33’’
Cyber Polygon
44’’
Hydrolysis
12’’
Mitochron
12’’
Zymogen
12’’
Method Crystal
16’’
Osmos
22’’
Pseudoconvexity
33’’
Differential
33’’
Time Invariant
33’’
Intramolecular
16’’
Linear Accelerator
12’’
Kinetic
16’’
Continuum Scale
22’’
Fluid Phase
22’’
Phthalo Diffusion
33’’
Cyclotron
16’’
Neuronal Reflex
44’’
Ubiquitin
12’’
Velocity Field
39’’
Thrombocyte
12’’
Vesicle
12’’
Chromatin
16’’
Electromagnetic Interaction
12’’
Fragmented Nuclei
12’’
Positron
12’’
Ring Accelerator
12’’
Synchrotron
12’’
Cyclotron Deux
16’’
Neuralpath Epicentre
33’’
Perpetual Enigma
39’’
Polygen
44’’
Fulcrum
44’’
Radio Diagnostic
16’’
Memetic Motion
16’’
Thermal Expansion
18’’ x 18’’
Nuclei
18’’ x 18’’
Crypto Code
30’’ x 30’’
Immobilize
18’’ x 18’’
Staring Spell
18’’ x 18’’
Lumo
18’’ x 18’’
Polymerized Confusion
18’’ x 18’’
Seize
18’’ x 18’’
Stimulacra
30’’ x 30’’
Tempered Distribution
48’’ x 48’’
Flommox
48’’ x 48’’
Atomistic Simulation
18’’ x 18’’
Mumbo Jumbo
18’’ x 18’’
Computational Domain
18’’ x 18’’
Bounded Interval
30’’ x 30’’
Geyser
48’’ x 48’’
Microfiche
18’’ x 18’’
Holomorphic
18’’ x 18’’
Locking Differentials
18’’ x 18’’
Random Access Float
18’’ x 18’’
Ubber
18’’ x 18’’
Twilight
18’’ x 18’’
Morphogenetic
18’’ x 18’’
Expansion Vessel
18’’ x 18’’
Revoluptuous
18’’ x 18’’
Bounded Variation
48’’ x 48’’
Neuro
18’’ x 18’’
Rotodynamic
18’’ x 18’’
Cumulative Frequency
30’’ x 30’’
Metronode
23’’ x 60’’
Mag Flux
36’’ x 48’’
Adaptome
42’’ x 42’’
Teknis
42’’ x 42’’
Pathnogenic Priming
20’’ x 72’’
Destabilized Perception
20’’ x 72’’
Memory Mole
20’’ x 72’’
Derivative Doppelganger
20’’ x 72’’
Sic Septus Tyranis
20’’ x 72’’
Biography
Born in 1967 in Toronto, and a graduate of OCAD and University of Guelph, multidisciplinary artist Franco DeFrancesca investigates the links between art and technology, using digital imaging to navigate between photography and painting. His vibrant-coloured minimalist work acknowledges the colour field and geometric work of the mid-to-late 20th century.
Franco DeFrancesca explores digital/mixed media as a mode of creating abstraction in the form of an art object. His artwork investigates the links between art, memory, history and technology, using digital imaging as a means to navigate the territory between photography and painting. As a result of mixing references to photography and painting, these multi-media artworks represent reflections on contemporary visual culture charmed by minimalism, modernism, technology and futurism.
DeFrancesca’s artwork highlights the visual, temporal, and spatial qualities combined with the physical and tactile. Applying a keen sense towards craft and a reverence towards materials and processes, the abstract image is integrated with an exposed support of layered plywood, then encapsulated beneath crystalline resin, creating an ‘object of desire’. With its physical depth and highly polished glean, these works reference minimalist industrial design and refer obliquely to the urbane.
DeFrancesca has exhibited in Canada and the United States and his work can be found in corporate and public collections world-wide, including Cenovus Energy Inc., Repsol, Ovintiv (formerly Encana), Enbridge Inc. (Calgary, AB), and Rodin Law Firm Litigation Counsel (Calgary, AB), amongst others.
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