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neuralnetoffour (detail) someofsomeofall at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, acylic on canvas, January 30, 2025 to March 15, 2025 Solo Exhibition - someofsomeofall, Miles McEnery Gallery, NYC, January 30 - March 15, 2025 |
| Franklin Evans' paintings and painting installations over the past two decades invoke an expanding network of relationships within a living studio. They juxtapose the now to an always-shifting past. Often his painting installations consider the subject of time - timecompressionmachine (2010 at MoMA PS1, New York), timepaths (2013 at Nevada Art Museum, Reno, Nevada), XLtime (2017 at Abrons Art Center, New York), and perpetualstudio (2022 at MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy). His painting installations also foreground the artists who inspire his practice. He constructs from their inspiration a brainspace atmosphere as a multi-dimensional index of artists past and present. From Alma Thomas, Joan Brown and Dana Schutz to Hector Hyppolite, John Dilg, and Henri Matisse, an abundance of artists live in a generously inspired brainscape world, which also serves as an oblique autobiography. Art critic and poet, John Yau, in his 2021 Hyperallergic review of Evans' solo exhibition fugitivemisreadings wrote: "Evans recognizes that we live in a world where we must constantly translate what we see. It is this chaotic plethora of images and the confusion of competing messages and distortions that he addresses in his work. You might think it is art about art, but it is much more than that." The late artist and art critic, Robert Moeller, in his 2014 Art New England review of Evans' juddrules: "It begins here with Judd and transforms itself fully into Evans. What Judd allows, Evans expands upon. Judd's rules become markers in Evans' story. It's not a question of primacy but rather the natural accrual of information and influence and its reinvestment in new work." Jerry Saltz in his 2012 New York Magazine review of Evans' New York show wrote: "Walk into Franklin Evans's sumptuous new show ... and your perceptions are thrown into a topsy-turvy, skewed polyphonic dumbfounded glee.... It's a living representation of a relentless, restless mind always at work, breaking it all down and putting it back together." Lyra Kilston, in her 2009 Art in America review of his solo show wrote: "Evans's vision of artmaking projects a chaotic, obsessive, freewheeling pursuit that is decidedly, and contagiously, joyful." Born in 1967 in Reno, NV, he has lived and worked in New York, NY since 1993. He has degrees from Stanford University (BA, 1989), University of Iowa (MA and MFA Painting, 1992 and 1993). He has been on the faculty of Cooper Union School of Art in New York as an adjunct professor since 2017. Evans has had nearly thirty solo exhibitions internationally and has participated in group exhibitions at institutional venues, which include, among others: MoMA PS1, New York, NY; MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Futura, Prague, Czech Republic; Museum Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo, Italy; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. His work is included in international museums and collections, including: Orlando Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Nevada Museum of Art; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; El Museo del Barrio; Weatherspoon Art Museum; Pizzuti Collection; The Progressive Art Collection; Roanoke College; Salomon Foundation, Annecy, France; Collection AGI, Verona, Italy; Marval Collection, Milan, Italy. Awards and grants include: Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant; NYFA Fellowship Painting; PM Foundation; Tribesice; MacDowell; Yaddo; The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program; and LMCC Workspace Program. |
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS BRAINSPACE: Recent Works by Franklin Evans - text by David Ebony, 2024 Video - What a Wonderful World MAXXI Museum, Rome, July 2022 LINK perpetualstudio - What a Wonderful World MAXXI Museum, Rome, November 2022 What a Wonderful World MAXXI Museum, Rome, May 26, 2022 - March 12, 2023 franklinsfootpaths Virtual Guided Tour, Figge Art Museum, June 17, 2021 |
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