James Evans

Statement

b. 1989

My work looks for a consistency of distance and feeling, regardless of whether the result is representational or non representational. There’s an internal energy, an autonomy that drives each one of us. My paintings are meant to explore the ways in which we move through the world, as well as the ways in which the world evolves beyond us.

There’s an immediacy to a sketch that I find fascinating. When I sketch landscapes in pastel, I do them as quickly and unconsciously as possible. Later, I return to the studio and identify tiny portions that have a particular resonance. These become the groundwork for my paintings. Little sections are blown up and larger images are scaled down, detailed elements run up against big swathes of color and exposed canvas. My work explores the connection between figuration and abstraction, it seeks out moments of poetry in everyday landscapes.

GlogauAIR Project

Our increasingly digital reality has altered our social dynamic in many ways, blurring much of the lines between past and present, self and other. Berlin is unique in its claim to both a winding cultural history as well as a modern reinvention. It manages to be both old and very new simultaneously. I will be using my time at GlogauAIR to locate moments of vibrancy and energy within our urban structures, making a series of paintings that probe the boundary between internal and external reality.

Painting

CV Summary

Education

• CU Boulder BFA

Solo Exhibitions

• 2020 – Manner of Forgetting – GR Gallery, New York City
• 2020 – A Ghost That Won’t Play Dead – Fabrica29, Mexico City

Group Exhibitions

• 2019 – We Good (Aug. 2019) – Ultrasupernew Gallery – Tokyo
• 2019 – Art Bookshop – Procell Gallery Space – New York City
• 2018 – Kinfolk 10 Year Show – Kinfolk – Brooklyn, Ny
• 2015 – Yourewelcome – Kinfolk – Brooklyn, Ny
• 2015 – Jars – (Blank Space) at The Hole – New York City

Residencies / Other

• 2023 – (Upcoming) glogauAIR , Berlin
• 2023 – (Finalist) NXTHVN – New Haven
• 2023 – (Finalist) NARS – New York
• 2021 – Installation – Miami art week, Miami
• 2019 – Fabrica 29 Residency, Mexico City
• 2019 – Its Fun In The End – Spring Place, New York City
• 2016 – Ace Hotel Artist In Residence Nyc
• 2016 – Opening Ceremony Prints
• 2016 – CR Fashion Book Mask E

Selected Press

• 2020 – Sight Unseen – Interview on ‘Constraint Equation’ paintings
• 2020 – Monster Children – Profile from Mexico City Studio , Print
• 2020 – Hypebeast – ‘A Ghost that Won’t Play Dead’ preview
• 2019 – Milk – Profile / studio interview
• 2016 – Purple – Salad Daze show review

Gallery