Franklin Evans creates painting installations with his studio as his subject. He was born in Reno, Nevada and has degrees from Stanford University, the University of Iowa where he got an MFA in painting and Columbia University where he received an MBA. Since 2005, he has had twenty solo exhibition in the United States and Europe and numerous group exhibitions at venues, which include, among others: MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; amongst many others. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Art in America, New York Magazine, Artforum, The New Yorker, Modern Painters, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, among other publications. Awards and grants include the Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant a NYFA Fellowship in Painting, the PM Foundation, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program and LMCC Workspace Program. Franklin’s work is included in the public collections of the Orlando Museum of Art, the Yale Univesity Art Gallery, the Museo del Barrio, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and many others. He is represented by Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York, FL Gallery in Milan, and Steven Zevitas Gallery. Brian stopped by Franklin’s Lower East Side studio and they talked about the speed of society, the realization of being an artist, Robert Smith hair and art as work and art as play.