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Jeremy Boyle &
Mark Franchino
The Studio
Jeremy Boyle
Mark FRANchino
LEarning Store
JEREMY BOYLE & MARK FRANCHINO
The two artists began a collaborative practice in 2012 to explore common interests in their individual studio practices and artwork. Over this time, they’ve had 6 solo exhibitions of their collaborative work, with each a further blurring of authorship between the two. Both artists have broad interests in studio practice and have expanded their work to include commissions of both art and functional objects, and are exploring alternate contexts of distribution, including the production of open and closed edition works available for direct sale here.
The Studio
The Studio: Materials, Tools, Processes, Parts, Custom
The studio is central to all that we do. For over two decades we’ve been investing in tools and equipment, and learning and developing processes and methods of working in a wide variety of media. We are beginning a process to document many of the materials, tools, and processes we use in the studio, not intending this documentation to be comprehensive of all that can be done, but to become comprehensive of the specific range of things that we do. Over time, we intend this to grow to become a rich resource of information layered in categories. We are interested in making all of the processes as visible as possible, and will share openly all methods we’ve developed or learned over time.
We believe it is important to be aware of what goes into making the objects that fill and make the built environment we’re all within - knowing where things come from and how they exist helps us to appreciate and make better decisions about the things that we choose to have surround us..
JEREMY BOYLE: ART / MUSIC
Jeremy Boyle is a visual artist and musician whose work explores technology as means, material and content. He was a founding and recent member of the Chicago group Joan of Arc, performing and recording with a series of self-designed analog and digital synthesizers. His artwork often bridges between music, art and performance and has been exhibited in major cities across the US, including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, Miami, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He received the Heinz Creative Heights Award, was PCA Emerging Artist of the Year, completed a residency at the Mattress Factory and has received funding for his art and technology-focused education work from the Grable Foundation, Heinz Endowments, Sprout Fund.
MARK FRANCHINO: ART / DESIGN
Mark Franchino is an Artist, Designer, Craftsperson, and Educator living in Western PA. Originally from Long Island NY, he received a BFA in 1998 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a MFA from the University of Delaware in 2002. Over the past 2 decades, with a broad approach to media, his drawings, prints, sculptures, and installations have been shown in more than 100 group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. His work in recent years has expanded into collaborative practice and into furniture and other functional objects, expanding his interests in the blur between art/design, abstraction/figuration, flat/dimensional, art/not-art, work/play, real/not-real.
LEARNING STORE: CIRCUIT BLOCKS
Circuit Blocks are hand-made in Pennsylvania from mixed varieties of locally and sustainably sourced hardwoods. Our Circuit Blocks have been iteratively designed as part of the teaching and learning work of the Children's Innovation Project beginning in 2010. The commercial production of Circuit Blocks is a project of Spiral Bound Design - whose commitment to high quality in-house production mirrors the ethos of the learning work of Children’s Innovation Project, implementing slow and careful methods of crafting these materials and improving designs iteratively with each block that is made.
Circuit Blocks are designed with the intention of supporting meaningful, rigorous learning opportunities for children both inside and outside of classrooms. Using Circuit Blocks with this intention affords children opportunities to slow down, dig into struggles of not-knowing and find and follow their internally-motivated curiosities.