Graham Franciose 'A Cut Flower Can't Last' I & II Available

Artist: Graham Franciose
Title: A Cut Flower Can't Last l + A Cut Flower Can't Last ll
Medium: Framed Watercolor on Canvas
Size: 7 x 13 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $700 Each

 

Graham Franciose is an American artist born in 1981 who lives and works in the United States. He studied illustration at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design before turning his full attention to painting and drawing. Working primarily in watercolor, ink and graphite on heavy paper, Franciose builds each image through delicate washes and precise line work, allowing the white of the page to glow beneath translucent layers of pigment.

His subject matter drifts between folklore, natural history and quiet human drama. Solitary figures wander moonlit forests, birds carry tiny lanterns and wolves peer from thickets rendered in muted greens, indigos and earthy browns. The scenes feel like half remembered dreams, suspended somewhere between comfort and unease. He begins with small pencil sketches made during long walks in New England woods, then develops the most resonant ideas into larger works that can take weeks to complete.

Recent bodies of work have focused on cycles of growth and decay, where blooming flowers share space with weathered bones and drifting feathers. These paintings record not only visible nature but also emotional weather: the ache of longing, the hush of acceptance, the wonder of finding light in deep shadow. Franciose exhibits widely across the United States and his work is held in private collections worldwide.

When he is not in the studio, he continues to explore rural trails and coastal edges, gathering reference photographs, pressed leaves and fragments of stories that will feed the next drawing. By offering atmosphere ahead of narrative, Franciose invites viewers to step into his world and complete the tale with their own memories and hopes.

Seth Clark 'Wanderer 15' Print Available

Artist: Seth Clark
Title: Wanderer 15
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 28 x 28 Inches
Edition: 15
Price: $325

 

Seth Clark (b. 1986, Seekonk, MA) turns rot and rain soaked trash into architectonic elegies. A BFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design taught him to respect kerning; Pittsburgh’s 2008 housing crash taught him to respect collapse. He begins each piece on littered walks: warped shingles, wallpaper flakes and soaked lottery tickets become the first strata of large wood panels that he builds like shaky houses, stapling, gluing and sometimes torching layers until sagging rooflines and yawning windows emerge. Charcoal, pastel and acrylic follow, but never hide the original scuffs Clark calls them “the neighbourhood’s handwriting".

The shift from flat collage to fractured sculpture felt inevitable: tiny paper strips translated directly into splintered lath, and pedestals now buckle open to reveal internal studs, questioning the white cube’s own mortality . Awards piled up Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Emerging Artist of the Year 2015, Best in Show at Three Rivers Arts Festival, residencies at the Children’s Museum and the Chautauqua Institution yet he still takes a sledgehammer to finished work if it feels “too polite,” preferring the moment when control surrenders to physics.

Recent exhibitions like Passing Through at Paradigm Gallery add playful limbs to his derelict forms, a response to new fatherhood that nods toward hope inside entropy. Whether rendering Johnstown Flood ruins or a buckling row house he spotted on Instagram, Clark’s goal is not nostalgia but presence: to remind viewers that every structure, including the self, is mid-collapse and therefore alive.