FRANCO DEFRANCESCA SYLPHS AND STRANDS
WILLIAM TURNER GALLERY BERGAMOT STATION ARTS CENTER 2525 MICHIGAN AVE., E-1 SANTA MONICA, CA 90404 P 310-453-0909 F 310-453-0908 www.williamturnergallery.com
SYLPHS AND STRANDS The William Turner Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works from Toronto based artist, Franco DeFrancesca. DeFrancesca’s mixed media “picture-objects” explore the intersections between digital media and painting. Working in hyper-saturated, supernatural shades, DeFrancesca creates fluorescent, atmospheric compositions that reference themes of 21st-century visual culture including urbanity, technology and the digital revolution. Though these works are highly contemporary in medium and approach, DeFrancesca’s practice draws on the concepts and aesthetic practices set forth by the Post Painterly Abstraction and Op-Art movements of the 1960s. Like Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, DeFrancesa seeks to remove the artist’s hand by eliminating the tactile application of paint, allowing color, rather than creator, to take center stage as subject. These hybrid art-objects are coated with resin and mounted on layers of plywood, combining traditional craftsmanship with digital innovation. DeFrancesca’s picture-objects vibrate with color, dazzling the viewer with visualizations of ephemeral and elusive environments of light. Their luminous, neon quality suggests city lights, glowing screens, fleeting scenery, electrical impulses and energy fields. These works are meditations on our rapidly changing, everevolving world. Franco DeFrancesca graduated from the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD) in 1990 and returned to the University of Guelph in 2004-05. He lives and works in Toronto.
Klystron Harmonic, 2014, 30�x 30�, mixed media on panel
Piezoelectric, 2014, 30”x 40”, mixed media on panel
Generated Ionized Cloud, 2014, 30”x30”, mixed media on panel
Nuclei Conductor, 2014, 30”x 40”, mixed media on panel
Nexrad Doppler, 2014, 30”x 30”, mixed media on panel
Crystal Modulation, 2014, 40”x 60”, mixed media on panel
Scalar Band, 2014, 30”x 30”, mixed media on panel
In HAL We Trust, 2013, 42”x 42”, mixed media on panel
Two Guitars 1, wood, metal & stain, 19”x 31”x 6” HOLES, mixed media on panel, available by commission in any square size
HOLES, mixed media on panel, available by commission in any square size
HOLES, mixed media on panel, available by commission in any square size
Untitled Diptych, 60”x 100”, mixed media on panel
Untitled, 2013, 30”x 80”, mixed media on panel
Untitled, 2013, 40”x 60”, mixed media on panel
Untitled Dyptich, 60”x 100”, mixed media on panel
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