April 12 – May 19, 2012
Opening: Thursday, April 12, 6:30–8:30 p.m.
OPEN STUDIO GALLERY
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Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8
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Toronto Open Studio is pleased to present Proof, an exhibition by Clarion, PA-based artist, Mark Franchino, from April 12 until May 19, 2012. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Pittsburgh, PA-based writer Kurt Shaw.
Franchino’s work explores our constructions of everyday environments and events, and the nature of human dynamics that evolve within, around, and through them. His work addresses seemingly mundane spaces and activities as physical constructions that reinforce and perpetuate implicit value systems. What are the rules? What purpose do they serve? In the Proof series, cloud images were generated from of an organization of randomized patterns created by a computer program. Those images were then rendered in 3D software and moved through time. As in the youthful game of finding images in clouds, Franchino selected the ones in which he could “see” something and then printed the images in subtle shades of white and iridescent ink through halftone patterns. The clouds are at once present and absent. The images alluded to in their titles are fictions, as is the notion that they are anything more than random. In addition to prints on paper, Proof also includes a site-specific installation screenprinted directly on the walls of the gallery.
Mark Franchino received a BFA in 1998 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MFA from the University of Delaware in 2002. In the last ten years his works have been shown in more than fifty group and solo exhibitions in the US and internationally,
Showing Concurrently:
George Gilmour Members’ Gallery: Kurt Pammer: Lakeland Drive: A tribute to
family, time and place
Print Sales Gallery: Brenda Joy Lem: longing and belonging