Francesco Longenecker

FRANCESCO LONGENECKER’S recent drawings inspired by traditional cel animation look at the relationship between architecture and landscape through invented space. Where cel animation uses physical layering to separate the background from subject, he is using the layers to connect the background and subject. Longenecker is creating a type of spatial netting that continually shifts from deep to shallow space, linking both setting and subject and conveying a sense of immediacy and discovery. Longenecker received his MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2007. His work has recently exhibited at Quint Contemporary, La Jolla CA, Factory Fresh, Brooklyn, NY, RARE Gallery and at Asya Geisberg Gallery in NY. francescolongenecker.net