About

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Franco works out of his Toronto studio where he sifts through the ignored bones of our recently discarded past. Typical of someone with an architectural design education, his creative process searches for graphic patterns of the physical world to serve as material for our interpretation.
The paintings in this exhibition start out from an extensive photographic collection of decaying industrial structures that he found in his early work and travels through Asia,  Europe and North America. After time away from direct contact with these original images, Franco intuitively dives into a creative process that treats these images as objects whose material and graphic qualities are dissected, reassembled and distilled. At the end of this process the images  are more like an archeological artifact, revealed partly serving as evidence of the rate of physical obsolescence characteristic of our culture.