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| Franklin Evans has spent more than two decades developing paintings and immersive painting installations that function like living studios - layered, dynamic spaces where past and present constantly intersect. His projects often explore the subject of time, as in timecompressionmachine (MoMA PS1, 2010), timepaths (Nevada Art Museum, 2013), XLtime (Abrons Art Center, 2017), and perpetualstudio (MAXXI Museum, Rome, 2022). Equally central to his work is the presence of other artists. Evans builds an expansive "brainspace" from their influence, indexing figures as diverse as Alma Thomas, Joan Brown, Dana Schutz, Hector Hyppolite, John Dilg, and Henri Matisse. This constellation of references becomes both a landscape of inspiration and a kind of oblique autobiography. Critics have described the restless, polyphonic energy of his work. John Yau wrote in Hyperallergic (2021): "You might think it is art about art, but it is much more than that." Jerry Saltz, in New York Magazine (2012), called Evans's installations "a living representation of a relentless, restless mind always at work, breaking it all down and putting it back together." Born in Reno, Nevada, in 1967, Evans has lived and worked in New York City since 1993. He holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa and has taught at Cooper Union since 2017. He has presented nearly thirty solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows at institutions including MoMA PS1, MAXXI Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, and The Drawing Center. His work is held in major museum and private collections internationally. |
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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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