80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction to Benefit the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
James Benjamin Franklin
Loophole
Lot Closed
February 8, 10:19 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
James Benjamin Franklin
b. 1972 Tacoma, WA
Loophole
Signed and dated 2019 on verso
Acrylic, sand, fabric, and apoxie sculpt on rigid wrap
17 1/4 diameter x 2 in depth
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Courtesy of REYES | FINN
James Benjamin Franklin builds flat, shaped forms out of plaster cloth. Some of them, covered in loud patterns of bright color and epoxy and with other flat objects glued on, look like Papuan spirit boards from the future. According to the artist, "My compositions are marked by a kind of detached voyeurism. They're snapshots into the psychological interiors of the suburban mind. I attempt to inject a sense of unease into seemingly innocuous settings by pointing to the anxiety and awkwardness that lies just below the surface of my characters' humdrum lives."
Franklin's artistic influences include Shirley Jaffe, Thornton Dial, Richard Diebenkorn, Alexander Calder and Agnes Martin among others. Recent exhibitions include Whole in the Dust at Reyes (Detroit) and FRONT International, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.