<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494</id><updated>2012-01-10T15:32:33.168-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mark Franchino</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494.post-8341158983768358045</id><published>2012-01-10T15:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T15:32:33.185-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dumpster 2 at UB</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZC7627sZP5k/TwzKipNLz5I/AAAAAAAAARg/McXOIyKPyKc/s1600/dumpsterview2.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZC7627sZP5k/TwzKipNLz5I/AAAAAAAAARg/McXOIyKPyKc/s320/dumpsterview2.1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696150325242351506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never posted an image from the new work I built at University at Buffalo for the alumni show this fall. So here it is. Special thanks to the curator,Bill Maynes, for inviting me to exhibit, and the University for sponsoring a new work!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The catalogue can be downloaded from &lt;a href="http://www.ubartgalleries.org/#?gallery=art&amp;amp;select=event&amp;amp;eventID=189"&gt;http://www.ubartgalleries.org/#?gallery=art&amp;amp;select=event&amp;amp;eventID=189&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4301122726206387494-8341158983768358045?l=markfranchino.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/8341158983768358045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4301122726206387494&amp;postID=8341158983768358045' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/8341158983768358045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/8341158983768358045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/2012/01/dumpster-2-at-ub.html' title='Dumpster 2 at UB'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZC7627sZP5k/TwzKipNLz5I/AAAAAAAAARg/McXOIyKPyKc/s72-c/dumpsterview2.1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494.post-3238073383012432938</id><published>2012-01-10T15:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-10T15:24:32.976-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Proof at SNAP</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2P3cm-j-hK8/TwzIpgUrPwI/AAAAAAAAARU/qcr9MKFqabA/s1600/cloud6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2P3cm-j-hK8/TwzIpgUrPwI/AAAAAAAAARU/qcr9MKFqabA/s320/cloud6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696148244093681410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ui6dXkJ294g/TwzIR72uBLI/AAAAAAAAARI/yRyRo3Ik4R0/s1600/cloud6.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;My solo exhibition in Edmonton is up this week. I'll be at the University of Alberta giving a lecture on Thursday January 12 and the opening is later that night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://snapartists.com/gallery/"&gt;http://snapartists.com/gallery/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4301122726206387494-3238073383012432938?l=markfranchino.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/3238073383012432938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4301122726206387494&amp;postID=3238073383012432938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/3238073383012432938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/3238073383012432938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/2012/01/httpsnapartists.html' title='Proof at SNAP'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2P3cm-j-hK8/TwzIpgUrPwI/AAAAAAAAARU/qcr9MKFqabA/s72-c/cloud6.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494.post-7829568389799537804</id><published>2011-05-19T11:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-19T11:40:11.248-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pittsburgh Biennial</title><content type='html'>I have been included in the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial! This year it will be hosted by five venues across the city. My piece will be at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. The opening is June 10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pittsburghbiennial.org/"&gt;http://pittsburghbiennial.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4301122726206387494-7829568389799537804?l=markfranchino.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/7829568389799537804/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4301122726206387494&amp;postID=7829568389799537804' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/7829568389799537804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/7829568389799537804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/2011/05/pittsburgh-biennial.html' title='Pittsburgh Biennial'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494.post-4090887161281083957</id><published>2011-03-12T17:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T18:07:07.901-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Donald Judd Remix" at Fe Gallery</title><content type='html'>This show opens in Pittsburgh on March 18. Special thanks to the curator Vicky Clark for including me in the exhibition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Select the link below for more information on the show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/458067/bc8dcab9a0/1711501144/90567016fb/"&gt;http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/458067/bc8dcab9a0/1711501144/90567016fb/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 style="border: 0pt none black; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px; padding: 0pt; width: 100%; background-color: transparent; font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;                 Fe Arts Gallery&lt;img style="width: 127px; min-height: 127px;" title="FeLogo" alt="FeLogo" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/3/9/1/39184d221d/bc8dcab9a0/62122266e7/library/fe%203.jpg?__nocache__=1" align="left" border="0" height="127" hspace="7" vspace="7" width="127" /&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;address&lt;/span&gt;~ 4102 Butler St. Pgh PA 15201&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;email&lt;/span&gt;~ &lt;a href="mailto:info@fegallery.org" target="_blank"&gt;info@fegallery.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;website&lt;/span&gt;~ &lt;a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FeArtsGallery/bc8dcab9a0/90567016fb/b921386f96" target="_blank"&gt;www.fegallery.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;like&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;us&lt;/span&gt;~ &lt;a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?FeArtsGallery/bc8dcab9a0/90567016fb/12b45b7816" target="_blank"&gt;facebook.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4301122726206387494-4090887161281083957?l=markfranchino.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/4090887161281083957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4301122726206387494&amp;postID=4090887161281083957' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/4090887161281083957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/4090887161281083957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/2011/03/fe-arts-gallery-fe-gallery-presents.html' title='&quot;Donald Judd Remix&quot; at Fe Gallery'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494.post-4619141489135472475</id><published>2011-03-10T17:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T17:14:04.157-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Contained" at the Boston Center for the Arts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JmInE-0Bd2M/TXl2mRQ-ThI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/EOiVQeTxlvs/s1600/walnutdumpster2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JmInE-0Bd2M/TXl2mRQ-ThI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/EOiVQeTxlvs/s320/walnutdumpster2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582623612944141842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a new piece from a series made for a show that opens March 18 in Boston. Special thanks to the curator John Pyper for including me in the exhibition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bcaonline.org/visualarts/mills-gallery/now-showing.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.bcaonline.org/visualarts/mills-gallery/now-showing.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4301122726206387494-4619141489135472475?l=markfranchino.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/4619141489135472475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4301122726206387494&amp;postID=4619141489135472475' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/4619141489135472475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/4619141489135472475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/2011/03/contained-at-boston-center-for-arts.html' title='&quot;Contained&quot; at the Boston Center for the Arts'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JmInE-0Bd2M/TXl2mRQ-ThI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/EOiVQeTxlvs/s72-c/walnutdumpster2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494.post-3544378359113740703</id><published>2010-03-14T15:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T16:31:14.173-07:00</updated><title type='text'>2009 Resident Artists' Projects @ AIR</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HAOcEuvw20E/S51qvRX6nQI/AAAAAAAAAQA/59Fh0j8V-GQ/s1600-h/installation+shot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HAOcEuvw20E/S51qvRX6nQI/AAAAAAAAAQA/59Fh0j8V-GQ/s320/installation+shot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448628484538277122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The opening reception for the 2009 Resident Artists Projects Exhibition was snowed out but &lt;a href="http://www.artistsimageresource.org/"&gt;Artists Image Resource&lt;/a&gt; has rescheduled a reception for &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 20, 7 - 10 p.m.&lt;/span&gt; The exhibition received a great review from Kurt Shaw in the &lt;a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_668756.html"&gt;Pittsburgh Tribune-Review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4301122726206387494-3544378359113740703?l=markfranchino.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/3544378359113740703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4301122726206387494&amp;postID=3544378359113740703' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/3544378359113740703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/3544378359113740703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/2010/03/opening-reception-for-2009-resident.html' title='2009 Resident Artists&apos; Projects @ AIR'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HAOcEuvw20E/S51qvRX6nQI/AAAAAAAAAQA/59Fh0j8V-GQ/s72-c/installation+shot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4301122726206387494.post-5453746910440040630</id><published>2010-03-13T13:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T18:55:56.437-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Project at UNC Charlotte</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HAOcEuvw20E/S5xOvG7T--I/AAAAAAAAAP4/vbSnfOntbyM/s1600-h/img_08-img_Layer-33-copy-2_.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HAOcEuvw20E/S5xOvG7T--I/AAAAAAAAAP4/vbSnfOntbyM/s400/img_08-img_Layer-33-copy-2_.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448316220431662050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My exhibition at UNC Charlotte will be up until the of March 24. A very special thanks to John Ford for making the project come together and to the fantastic group of students that helped work on it - I could not have done it without them. John posted some videos of &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dumpster1&lt;/span&gt; on his class website. Check them out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://printmediastudio.ning.com/video/mark-franchino-dumpster-1"&gt;http://printmediastudio.ning.com/video/mark-franchino-dumpster-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4301122726206387494-5453746910440040630?l=markfranchino.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/feeds/5453746910440040630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4301122726206387494&amp;postID=5453746910440040630' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/5453746910440040630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4301122726206387494/posts/default/5453746910440040630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://markfranchino.blogspot.com/2010/03/project-at-unc-charlotte.html' title='Project at UNC Charlotte'/><author><name>Mark Franchino</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10084144503073844275</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HAOcEuvw20E/S5xOvG7T--I/AAAAAAAAAP4/vbSnfOntbyM/s72-c/img_08-img_Layer-33-copy-2_.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
