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Franklin Einspruch photographed at his 2008 exhibition "The Importance of What We Care About" at Common Sense, a gallery in Edmonton, Canada.
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Born | 1968 Dallas, Texas |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Painting, drawing, writing |
Movement | Modernism |
Franklin Einspruch (born 1968) is an American artist and writer based in Boston.
Franklin Einspruch was born in Dallas, Texas. Einspruch completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Miami, where he studied with Walter Darby Bannard. Einspruch is a member of the United States chapter of the International Association of Art Critics.
Franklin Einspruch has been an artist in residence at the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, the Morris Graves Foundation, and the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts. The critic Don Wilkinson has described his work as "handsome expressionist painting, grounded in reality, yet veering toward the abstract."
Einspruch is the author of hundreds of essays on art and culture, and his writing has appeared in many notable publications including The New Criterion,The New York Sun,The Miami New Times,The Federalist,Art Critical,City Journal,The Arts Fuse, and Art in America.
Einspruch's blog, Artblog.net, began in 2003 and is one of the longest-running blogs about visual art. He edits the Walter Darby Bannard Archive and edited a compilation of Bannard's art advice, Aphorisms for Artists.