DiFronzo’s highly detailed paintings depict imagined landscapes inspired by his travels through the California desert and memories of childhood road-trips in the family station wagon. His hauntingly beautiful paintings alternate between reality and the surreal as they present desolate and mysterious places reminiscent of the iconic American West. The paintings are meticulously painted and wander from familiar and mundane to the surreal.
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Fundamentally a storyteller, DiFronzo transports the viewer into a world of his own creation. As one moves from painting to painting across DiFronzo’s oeuvre, the viewer vicariously experiences the depth and breadth of a world full of stories that DiFronzo has conjured into being.

FRANCIS DiFRONZO (b. 1969, San Pedro, CA) received his BFA from the University of California, Fullerton, in 1994 and his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1996. DiFronzo’s painting have been exhibited throughout the United States and are included in numerous private collections. His works have been published in American Art Collector, Western Art + Architecture, and Fine Art Connoisseur, among others. He has been awarded several prestigious grants including the Stobbart Foundation Fellowship in the Arts in 1998 and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2004. He lives and works in Irvine, CA.