Franklin Evans

Adjunct Instructor

Franklin Evans creates paintings and immersive painting installations that operate as living studios (layered environments where images, histories, and fragments of past work accumulate, collide, and recombine). Born in 1967 in Reno, Nevada, he lives and works in New York.
 
Evans’ projects often examine the compression and circulation of time within painting, a theme explored in installations including timecompressionmachine (MoMA PS1, 2010), timepaths (Nevada Art Museum, 2013), XLtime (Abrons Art Center, 2017), and perpetualstudio (MAXXI Museum, Rome, 2022).
 
Since 2005 he has exhibited internationally at venues including The Drawing Center and El Museo del Barrio, New York; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; DiverseWorks, Houston; and RISD Museum, Providence. He holds degrees from Stanford University (BA), University of Iowa (MA and MFA in Painting), and Columbia University (MBA).
 

Image credit: perpetualstudio, 2022, painting, collage, site-specific installation, commission by MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome

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