Franco Mondini-Ruiz

Franco Mondini-Ruiz is an American artist, born in San Antonio, Texas. He lives and works in San Antonio and New York. Mondini-Ruiz has taken a variety of approaches to creating art, including installations, performances, paintings, sculptures, and short stories. New York Times art critic Roberta Smith wrote in 2005 that "his first works were installations that favored kitschy found objects, then smaller assemblages of same. Accessibility, portability and spontaneity were key concepts." His later work "questions notions of preciousness and art-market exclusivity while delivering a fizzy visual pleasure."