About

Franklin Einspruch has a creative practice that spans traditional and digital media, images and words, and various recombinations thereof: paintings, drawings, watercolors, essays, comics, programming, and Web art.

Einspruch earned a B.F.A. in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. in Painting from the University of Miami. His senior year at RISD took place at the school's European Honors Program in Rome and the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Paros, Greece. Since then, his work has appeared in fourteen solo exhibitions and over two dozen group shows, and Martin Z. Margulies, the Florida Department of State, and many other collections in the US and abroad have acquired it. He has received several notable grants, and completed artist residencies at the Aegean Center and Stock 20 in Taichung, Taiwan. Scott White Contemporary Art and G2 Gallery represent his fine art.

Einspruch is a member of AICA USA and has authored over a hundred published essays and art reviews, which have appeared in Art in America, the New Criterion, the Boston Globe, the Miami New Times, and elsewhere. He has been exploring Web-based arts publishing since 2000, and produced one of the earliest blogs about visual art, Artblog.net, which ran from 2003 to 2010. He edits the online archive of the writings of Walter Darby Bannard. Top Shelf 2.0 and two issues of Inbound, the anthology of the Boston Comics Roundtable, have featured his comics work, which has garnered favorable reviews from Fleen and Comixtalk.

He lives in Boston.