Franklin Evans
Extraction from C/S/SS: A Year of Magical Thinking, 2009
Digital print on Arches cold pressed paper with hand additions in watercolor and ink.
22 x 30 inches
Edition of 30 unique, signed works
$800 (Price includes packing and shipping within the United States.)
Element Editions is pleased to present a new print, "Extraction from C/S/SS: A Year of Magical Thinking" by the artist Franklin Evans. The title of the work refers to the artist’s one year project "Component/System/Sub-System: A Year of Magical Thinking" at The Space Program sponsored by The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in DUMBO (Brooklyn).
In C/S/SS Evans explores the studio as subject. In this exploration, one area of interest has been the layering of painting/art-making processes adjacent to one another and how this layering (both in making and thinking) informs the active processes. These various processes frame how the work is understood, viewed and made. For Element Editions, Evans has made a two-tone digital print of one of his own watercolors and has consciously arranged for a two inch border to frame his work and has allowed for a small rectilinear central area to be left unprinted (framed by the print of the original watercolor). In these two unprinted areas Evans paints with watercolor. The print was executed over the course of the year ("of magical thinking") in DUMBO (an extraction from the year) and thus in the watercolor areas each print moves through all the surrounding framing information of the other active painting processes in the studio over the year. In a sense it, like most of his work, is a measurement of time.
Franklin Evans' work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and Fuoriuso-Artenova, Pescara, Italy. He has had solo exhibitions at Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy; Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Katherine Mulherin Projects, Toronto, Canada; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, and Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art (two-person with Jiha Moon), Zurich, Switzerland. His solo exhibition "2008/2009 < 2009/2010" opens at Sue Scott Gallery in New York in September 2009. In October he will collaborate on the set design with Trajal Harrell for "Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (s)" at The New Museum in New York. Evans has been selected for residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Millay Colony for the Arts, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, and Yaddo. His work is in the permanent collections of Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY and Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA.