Franklin Einspruch

Franklin Einspruch
Franklin Einspruch photographed at his 2008 exhibition "The Importance of What We Care About" at Common Sense, a gallery in Edmonton, Canada.
Born	1968 Dallas, Texas
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting, drawing, writing
Movement	Modernism

Franklin Einspruch (born 1968)^[1] is an American artist and writer based in Boston.^[2][3][4]

Biography

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.^[5]

Work

Franklin Einspruch has been an artist in residence at the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, ^[6] the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation,^[7] the Morris Graves Foundation,^[1] and the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts.^[8] The critic Don Wilkinson has described his work as "handsome expressionist painting, grounded in reality, yet veering toward the abstract."^[9]

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,^[10] The New York Sun,^[11] The Miami New Times,^[12] The Federalist,^[2] Art Critical,^[3] City Journal,^[13] The Arts Fuse,^[14] and Art in America.^[15]

Einspruch's blog, Artblog.net, began in 2003 and is one of the longest-running blogs about visual art. ^[16] He edits the Walter Darby Bannard Archive^[17] and edited a compilation of Bannard's art advice, Aphorisms for Artists.^[18]

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