Franco
Works
Episodic Sensory
18’’ x 18’’
Introspect
18’’ x 18’’
Motor Cortex
18’’ x 18’’
Presence
18’’ x 18’’
Retrograde Signal
18’’ x 18’’
Syncopated Pulse
18’’ x 18’’
Positron
12’’
Cyclotron
16’’
Subgradients
16’’
Elastic Container
22’’
Flicker
22’’
Remote Source
22’’
Automaticity
22’’
Burst
18’’ x 18’’
Harmonic Overlay
18’’ x 18’’
Suspension
18’’ x 18’’
Self Illuminating
18’’ x 18’’
Ultraviolet
18’’ x 18’’
Syncopated Interval
18’’ x 18’’
Einstellung
18’’ x 18’’
Cognitive Dispersion
18’’ x 18’’
Interoceptive
18’’ x 18’’
Stimuli
18’’ x 18’’
Blink
18’’ x 18’’
Karmeleon
18’’ x 18’’
Exteroceptive
18’’ x 18’’
Totem
18’’ x 18’’
Transmutation
12’’
GoTo
12’’
Network Flow
12’’
Retransmit
12’’
Thermodynamic Field
12’’
Control Flow
16’’
Metron
22’’
Thymos
22’’
Data Mine
33’’
Ionic Bond
33’’
Hypergeometric
39’’
Polyphonic Sensitizer
44’’
Argon
51’’
Transduction
12’’
Radionuclide
12’’
Antares
33’’
Juice
59’’
Facilitated Diffusion
12’’
Taus
12’’
Muon
16’’
Hyperparameter
22’’
Reactive Flux
22’’
Borealis
33’’
Resonance Energy
33’’
Arcturus
39 1/4’’
Synthase
59’’
Virion
12’’
Reaction Centre
12’’
Prion
16’’
Jiggle
22’’
Veilance
33’’
Virtual Tunnel
33’’
Prism
39’’
Cyber Polygon
44’’
Symbiotic Confusion
44’’
Chloroplast
12’’
Hydrolysis
12’’
Zymogen
12’’
Mitochron
12’’
Method Crystal
16’’
Pseudoconvexity
33’’
Osmosis
22’’
Differential
33’’
Time Invariant
33’’
Rubiconem Suum
44’’
Electromagnetic Field
12’’
Intramolecular
16’’
Multiphase Transport
22’’
Ferrocyanide
33’’
Wave Propagation
33’’
Ubiquitin
12’’
Flirt
22’’
Vesicle
12’’
Thrombocyte
12’’
Chronomancer
16’’
Chromatin
16’’
Changeless
22’’
Gravity
44’’
Velocity Field
39’’
Neuronal Reflex
44’’
Electromagnetic Interaction
12’’
Fragmented Nuclei
12’’
Ring Accelerator
12’’
Synchrotron
12’’
Collider
12’’
Roseuem
22’’
Pynknosis
33’’
Neuralpath Epicentre
33’’
Semipermeable
44’’
Plastomatic
33’’
Perpetual Enigma
39’’
Polygen
44’’
Fulcrum
44’’
Radio Diagnostic
16’’
Sequential Spectrum
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’’
Neuro
18’’ x 18’’
Bounded Variation
48’’ x 48’’
Rotodynamic
18’’ x 18’’
Inhalation
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’’
Silicon Voyeur
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, Encana and Enbridge Inc. (Calgary, AB), Rodin Law Firm Litigation Counsel (Calgary, AB), amongst others.
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