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SAIC Alum Featured in Chicago Tribune for Abstract Paintings
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Nick Franco (MAAE 2013) makes paintings using microscopic images from his dermatologist father's medical books. The Chicago Tribune explains that Franco uses a graphic design program to alter the images that he prints onto canvas and then works over with acrylic paint. In March these paintings were featured inDermatology Times Magazine.