I just returned from a visit to Cranbrook where I gave a lecture on my work and did studio visits with the Print Media students. What a GREAT trip. Artist in Residence Randy Bolton took great care of me and the students were wonderful.
lFeb 1 - April 7, 2013 Opening Reception Fri. Feb 1 from 5:30-9:00pm, $5 Admission
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
6300 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Untitled I is a first collaboration between artists Jeremy Boyle and Mark Franchino. The central work, also titled Untitled I, combines their decade long creative interests (systems, communication, definition, context and value) into a sculptural installation. With the conflation of cheap material, careful construction, high and low tech, the work arrives in a simultaneous space of cynical observation and playful/imaginative thought. In addition to the central collaborative installation, both artists have included bodies of independent work in a wide range of media (drawing, sound, video, sculpture) that reinforces the broad range of thematic interest investigated within Untitled I.
Artist/musician Boyle is currently the co-director of the Children's Innovation Project at the CREATE Lab of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Assistant Professor of Art at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Franchino, a curator and artist working in sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and video, is an Associate Professor of Art at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.