Mediums - mixed, drawing,

Artist's Statement -Most of my work doesn’t look like anything in the world outside my own head. Someone said it is “self-referential.” I sit alone and listen to music, usually “The Art of the Fugue” by Bach or the “Day of the Hunt” by Mozart. I make a mark on the paper….then another …and then another each one building on the next in little units. I never know where these units are going. I just let the building happen while the music plays. I know when it’s finished because as I look at it there aren’t any more marks to make. My art is the exact opposite of representational art. Mine is entirely my own…. personal. I don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. I want my drawings to take me into a new dimension, not the one most people live in…It’s sort of like atoms, building to molecules, building to larger units that we all can then recognize as something. I can look at something and draw it.. I can do that, but I don’t, because then my drawing won’t truly be my own. My drawings start with something that doesn’t exist before I mark it down. If I just copy something like a vase or a leaf for instance, that work will belong as much to the object as to me. I want to create something organically Franco. I work in sort of a feedback loop…I make a mark and that sends a signal for more marks. I really like when people say nice things about me and buy my work, but quite honestly, I do this because I have to…I don’t want to live another way. Franco is a former student of the Chicago Art Institute and University of Illinois. For more information about Franco and his work, visit www.francoink.com

Biography - Franco Nicholas Muscarella Emerging artist Name: Franco Nicholas Muscarella Address: Lincolnshire IL. Phone: 847-940-9576 Email: franco@francoink.com Website: www.francoink.com City of Birth: Chicago Education: Chicago Art Institute University of Illinois

Gallery Affiliations - Exhibitions: Andersonville Galleria, Chicago IL. Private Collections: Everett Campbell, New Mexico ChristopherE.Lim,Esq., New York

Exhibitions - Exhibitions: Andersonville Galleria, Chicago IL. Waukegan Main Street Art Wilmette Art Guild/Don Olson State Farm Office/Wilmette Library Starbucks. Deerfield IL. Wilmette Library Metropolis Café Chicago