Bio
Franklin Einspruch is a visual artist working in painting, drawing, printmaking, and digital media. He is also active in art criticism, comics, and alternative publishing. His art has appeared in 21 solo exhibitions and 42 group exhibitions. He has been a resident artist at programs in Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Nepal, and around the United States, and was the Fulbright-Q21/MuseumsQuartier Artist-In-Residence for 2019 in Vienna.
Einspruch has authored 252 essays and art reviews for many publications including The New Criterion and Art in America. He has been blogging about art since 2001. Einspruch has been involved with comics poetry since the form emerged in the mid-2000s. He edited the first anthology of the genre (Comics as Poetry, 2012) and his work has appeared in the journals Ink Brick, Solstice, and Post Road among others. He is the proprietor of Dissident Muse, a publishing and exhibition project supporting the unsung, the unbowed, and the ineffable. He lives in rural New Hamsphire.