Franklin Einspruch is an American artist and writer based in

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Biography

Franklin Einspruch was born in

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. Einspruch completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the

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, and a Master of Fine Arts at the

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, where he studied with

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. Einspruch is a member of the United States chapter of the

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Work

Franklin Einspruch has been an

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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's art criticism and other writing has appeared in publications including ''

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. 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'' which was published in 2022 by Letter16 Press. An interview with Einspruch was featured on the .art domain website as an early adopter of that

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Comics Poetry

Einspruch has been involved in

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since the form emerged in the mid-2000s, when he began posting comics poems online at The Moon Fell On Me. He edited and published the first anthology of comics poetry, ''Comics as Poetry'', in 2012. In 2018 he was chosen to be the Fulbright/Q21- MuseumsQuartier Artist-in-Residence for the 2018-19 award year. His project as a Fulbright scholar was a cycle of comics poems about

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, titled (and published at) Regarding Th.at. Einspruch published a work of comics poetry in 2018 titled ''Cloud on a Mountain''.

References

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