James Benjamin Franklin: Primary pushes Franklin's cast-resin paintings into new asymmetry and textural adventurousness, with shapes ranging from destabilized rhomboids to what the gallery describes as demented shamrocks. Carefully pre-planned through preparatory drawings, the works are then built through spraying, pouring, scraping, and squeegeeing across inlaid fabrics — exactitude colliding with improvisation. The title resists its own premise: rather than proposing a return to origins, the paintings locate the "primary" as something buried, partially visible, and continually redefined through accumulation and erasure.
