Franklin Evans

MOTI HASSON GALLERY is very pleased to announce the representation of FRANKLIN EVANS.

FRANKLIN EVANS is a New York-based artist whose work includes drawings, videos, and increasingly, site-specific pieces combining both. Ranging in scale and format, Evans' works are consistently bound by their distinct color palate and intricate compositions that are showcased both as discrete works, and as part of large-scale installations.

Often containing a precarious mix of materials ranging from thread, masking tape, nails, sheetrock, and time-based elements, Evans' work speaks to transitory states of being. Drawing from his creative experiences, as well as iconic images from art history and his multicultural background, Evans raises questions about lineage and place in order to reveal what possibilities exist for transcendence and regeneration, both as an artist and as an individual. Evans states: "As a mixed-ethnicity artist, I wonder whether [...] I may be seen as one person with two or more identities, recombinant, fragile, decaying, transient."

Through multi-dimensional works that simultaneously highlight, counteract, and document his life in ways that are both obvious and abstract, Evans reveals the interconnectedness between vision, experience, and his increasingly complex role as a contemporary artist living in an age of global flux.

FRANKLIN EVANS (Born 1967, Reno, NV. Lives and works in New York, NY) received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1993. His work has been showcased in prominent exhibitions including The (S) Files 007, El Museo del Barrio (New York, 2007); Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, 2006); LineAge: Selections Fall 2005, The Drawing Center (New York, 2005); The Zine Unbound, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, 2005); as well as recent Gallery exhibitions: Greener Pastures, Permanent Midnight, Moti Hasson Gallery (New York, 2007); Franklin Evans and Jiha Moon, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art (Zurich, 2007); True Faith, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery (New York, 2007); Summer Kamp: K48, John Connelly Presents (New York, 2006); freakout, Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York, 2005); and The General's Jamboree, Guild & Greyshkul (New York, 2005).

Evans has received numerous awards including a residency at LMCC/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, 2004) and has organized curatorial projects including Twist It Twice, Moti Hasson Gallery (New York, 2006) and Regeneration Room, LMAKprojects (New York, 2006), among others. His work is in such public collections as the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, and the Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, and has received critical acclaim in The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, The New York Times, and Time Out New York among other publications.