Franklin Evans (artist)

Franklin Evans (born in 1967 in Reno, NV) American artist, curator and lecturer on art, who lives and works in New York.
His awards include: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, NYFA Fellowship in Painting, The Fountainhead Residency, Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, LMCC Workspace Residency, and Yaddo. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including “franklinsfootpaths” at the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; “fugitivemisreadings ” at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (with a catalogue essay by Raphael Rubinstein “Franklin Evans: The Studio as Episteme”); “selfportraitas” at FL Gallery - WIZARD, Milan, Italy; “juddrules” at Montserrat College (with a catalogue by Leonie Bradbury Franklin Evans: A Moment of Complexity); “timepaths” at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. His works are included in private and public collections, including, among others, MAXXI (Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo), Rome, El Museo del Barrio, New York, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York.
His painting practice has been described by critics as process-oriented, engaging his art studio as a subject. Often his painting installations surround the viewers (floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall) and invite them to walk on the studio floor, transforming the floor into a painting. According to Evans, his practice embraces “the not-quite-finished, the in-transition, the nearly-emerging, the slowly-evolving, the near-end, and the move-towards-erasure".
== Education and artistic practice ==
Franklin Evans was born in Reno, Nevada in 1967 and has lived and worked in New York City since 1993. He has a BA degree from Stanford University (1989), an MA and an MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa (1992 and 1993), and an MBA from Columbia University (2000).
Since the early 2000s he has been active as an artist and curator. In many of his exhibitions, notably in his timecompressionmachine at MoMA PS1 for Greater New York 2010, Evans employs actual painted colored tape to extend painting into three dimensions. Recreating his studio, he works on the edge of painting and immersive installations. For example, his installation perpetualstudio at MAXXI Museum in Rome (2022) unites artwork, painting, and installation.
In his work, Evans often uses his own images of other artwork, his own documentation images of his own work, and images from the Internet and Instagram. As noted by art critic Raphael Rubinstein: “Provocatively, Evans pursues autobiographical content via appropriated images”. 
== Exhibitions ==
Franklin Evans has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in United States and Europe. He was included in the exhibition series “Selections” at The Drawing Center in New York, LineAge: Selections Fall 2005, and had his first solo show at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York the same year. Since then, his works have been exhibited in MoMA PS1, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, RISD Museum, de Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, MAXXI Museum, among other important institutions.
The titles of his painting and solo exhibitions normally are made up of lowercase letters jammed together into solid blocks, like the stream-of consciousness.
=== Selected Solo Exhibitions ===
* 2005 - Jeff Bailey Gallery, freakout, New York, NY 
* 2007 - Federico Luger, manscape, Milan, Italy 
* 2009 - Sue Scott Gallery, 2008/2009 < 2009/2010, New York, NY 
* 2010 - Federico Luger, times2, Milan, Italy 
* 2011 - PM Foundation, timeoutin, Dorado, Puerto Rico
* 2012 - DiverseWorks, houstontohouston, Houston, TX
* 2012 - Federico Luger, flatbedfactum02, Milan, Italy 
* 2012 - Sue Scott Gallery, eyesontheedge, New York, NY 
* 2013 - Nevada Museum of Art, timepaths, Reno, NV 
* 2014 - Ameringer McEnery Yohe, paintingassupermodel, New York, NY 
* 2014 - Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, juddrules, Beverly, MA (catalogue)
* 2014 - Steven Zevitas Gallery, juddpaintings, Boston, MA
* 2015 - FL Gallery, headandhandinhand, Milan, Italy 
* 2015 - Prosjektrom Normanns, spreadsheetspace, Stavanger, Norway 
* 2017 - Abrons Art Center, XLtime, New York, NY 
* 2017 - Ameringer McEnery Yohe, paintingpainting, New York, NY 
* 2018 - FL Gallery, Drawing Now: paperintheround, Paris, France 
* 2018 - FL Gallery, selfportraitas, Milan, Italy
* 2021 - Miles McEnery Gallery, fugitivemisreadings, New York, NY (catalogue)
* 2021 - Figge Art Museum|Figge Art Museum, franklinsfootpaths, Davenport, Iowa 
=== Selected Group Exhibitions ===
* 2003 - ISE Foundation, Beyond the Flaneur, New York, NY (curator: Yasufumi Nakamori)
* 2004 - Champion Fine Art, Exhibition 10, Los Angeles, CA (curator: Katherine Bernhardt, catalogue)
* 2005 - Guild & Greyshkul, The General’s Jamboree, New York, NY
* 2005 - Rotunda Gallery, Decipher: Hand-Painted Digital, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Yasufumi Nakamori, catalogue)
* 2005 - The Drawing Center, LineAge: Selections Fall 2005, New York, NY (curator: Luis Camnitzer, catalogue)
* 2005 - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Zine Unbound, San Francisco, CA (curator: Scott Hug)
* 2006 - Fuoriuso-Artenova, Metaphysics of Youth, Pescara, Italy (curator: Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, catalogue)
* 2006 - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Art on Paper 2006, Greensboro, NC (curator: Xandra Eden, catalogue)
* 2007 - El Museo del Barrio, El Museo’s 5th Bienal: The (S) Files 007, New York, NY (curators: Elvis Fuentes and E. Carmen Ramos, catalogue)
* 2007 - Miki Wick Contemporary Art, Franklin Evans and Jiha Moon, Zurich, Switzerland 
* 2008 - Art Production Fund – LAB, Blue Balls, New York, NY (curator: Jackie Saccoccio)
* 2010 - Futura, NY/Prague 6, Prague, Czech Republic (curator: Omar Lopez-Chahoud)
* 2010 - MoMA PS1, Greater New York 2010, Long Island City, New York (curators: Klaus Biesenbach, Connie Butler, Neville Wakefield, catalogue)
* 2010 - RISD Museum, Collision, Providence, RI (curator: Jackie Saccoccio)
* 2013 - Abrons Arts Center, Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show, New York, NY (curators: Dan Palmer and Andrianna Campbell-LaFleur)
* 2013 - deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Paint Things, Lincoln, MA (curators: Dina Deitsch and Evan J. Garza, catalogue)
* 2013 - The Immigrants, Experiment 2, Venice, Italy (curators: Federico Luger and Pasquale Lecesse)
* 2014 - Fondation pour l'art contemporain Salomon, Abstraction, Annecy, France
* 2014 - Museo d'arte contemporanea di Lissone, Premio Lissone 2014, Lissone, Italy (catalogue)
* 2015 - La Fondazione Ivan Bruschi, ICASTICA 2015: Cultivating Culture, Arezzo, Italy 
* 2016 - 101/EXHIBIT, Dynamic Pictorial Models, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
* 2017 - Olin Gallery, Legacy: Highlights from the Roanoke College Permanent Collection, Salem, VA (curator: Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, catalogue)
* 2018 - Nevada Museum of Art, Manet to Maya Lin, Reno, NV (curator: JoAnne Northrup)
* 2021 - Orlando Museum of Art, Radical: Abstract, Orlando, FL 
* 2021 - Palazzo Eroclano, Looklock, Bologna, Italy (curator: Chiara Guidi)
* 2021 - Platform, Walk the Line, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Elizabeth Hazan)
* 2022 - Castello Baglioni di Graffignano, Formes & Deformes 2, Viterbo, Italy (curator: Antonio Arévalo)
* 2022 - MAXXI Museum, What a Wonderful World, Rome, Italy (curator: Bartolomeo Pietromarchi)
== Gallery Representation and Publications ==
Franklin Evans is represented by New York's Miles McEnery Gallery, Boston's Steven Zevitas Gallery, and WIZARD - FL Gallery in Milan, and Evans' work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Art in America, New York Magazine, Artforum, The New Yorker, and many other publications.
=== Selected Publications: ===
* Zugazagoitia, J., Fuentes, E., Ramos, Kronfle, R., Chambers, El Museo’s 5th Bienal: The (S) Files 007, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. 2007
* Tannenbaum, Judith and Saccoccio, Jackie, Collision, Wakefield, RISD Museum of Art. 2010
* Biesenbach, K., Butler C., and Wakefield, N., Greater New York 2010, MoMA PS1, New York, NY. 2010
* Garza, E., Franklin Evans: On time, space, Stella, and tape with the New York Painter. New American Paintings No. 98, text by Evan Garza, Open Studio Press, Boston, MA. 2012
* Dunbar E., and Cook, R., Franklin Evans: houstontohouston, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX. 2012
* Kois, D., Deitsch D., Garza, E.J., Paint Things: Beyond The Stretcher, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA. 2013
* Bradbury, L., Neal, P., Moeller, R., juddrules, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. 2015
* Phong Bui and Lisa Kim, Artists to Artists: Volume 2, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY. 2016
* Maxey, Michael, Legacy: Highlights from the Roanoke College Permanent Collection, Roanoke College, Salem, VA. 2017
* Neal, Patrick, The Nature Lab: An Homage to the RISD Nature Lab, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY. 2018
* Pietromarchi, Bartolomeo, Net Jumps, Galleria Allegra Ravizza, Lugano, Switzerland. 2021
* Bradbury, Leonie, The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary Insights on Gridded Modalities in Conversation with the Arts, Liora Bigon (editor) and Nava Shaked (editor), De Gruyter, Berlin. 2021
* Rubenstein, Raphael, Franklin Evans: The Studio as Episteme, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY. 2021
== Collections ==
His works can be found in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including:
* Collection AGI, Verona, Italy
* The Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY
* El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
* Marval Collection, Milan, Italy / Berlin, Germany 
* MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
* Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
* Pizzuti Collection, Columbus
* The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
* Roanoke College, Salem, VA 
* Fondation pour l'art conteporain Salomon, Annecy, France
* Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
* Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
* Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
== Curatorial ==
Franklin Evans has curated since the mid-2000s. Among his curatorial projects is Perverted by Theater, co-curated (with Paul David Yound) at apexart, New York in 2008.
His co-curated (with Omar Lopez-Chahoud) nine-gallery project Lush Life with more than 60 artists was widely reviewed, including by Holland Cotter in the New York Times and by ArtAgenda
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