mark franchino…

is an Artist, Designer, Craftsperson, and Educator living in Western PA. Originally from Long Island NY, he received a BFA in 1998 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a MFA from the University of Delaware in 2002. Over the past 2 decades, with a broad approach to media, his drawings, prints, sculptures, and installations have been shown in more than 100 group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work in recent years has expanded into collaborative practice and into furniture and other functional objects, expanding his interests in the blur between art/design, abstraction/figuration, flat/dimensional, art/not-art, work/play, real/not-real.

In 2012 he began a collaboration with Jeremy Boyle to explore common interests in their individual studio practices and artwork. Over this time, they’ve had 6 solo exhibitions of their collaborative work, with each a further blurring of authorship between the two. Both artists have broad interests in studio practice and have expanded their work to include commissions of both art and functional objects, and are exploring alternate contexts of distribution, including the production of open and closed edition works available for direct sale.

Solo Work

Mark Franchino

is an Artist, Designer, Craftsperson, and Educator living in Western PA. Originally from Long Island NY, he received a BFA in 1998 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a MFA from the University of Delaware in 2002. Over the past 2 decades, with a broad approach to media, his drawings, prints, sculptures, and installations have been shown in more than 100 group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work in recent years has expanded into furniture and other functional objects, expanding his interests in the blur between art/design, abstraction/figuration, flat/dimensional, art/not-art, work/play, real/not-real.