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October 11, 2007- November 20, 2007
Christopher Evans
Fischbach Gallery
210 11th Ave Christopher Evans Valley Oaks, Silver Clouds (2006) |
In 2005, after four years of living in the New York area, Evans returned to a house situated on the banks of the Russian River in Northern California’s Sonoma County. This trans-continental shift re-oriented his personal and aesthetic perspectives, bringing him fresh appreciation of once familiar vistas and inspiration to begin a new series of landscape paintings.
Away from New York and influenced by his rural environment, Evan’s paintings primarily focus on the purely natural California landscapes surrounding him. These lands, existing beyond the edges of cities, towns and farmland in boundary zones are referred to as “open space.” Whether slated for future development, legally protected, or merely overlooked, these are profound places where life goes on independent of human culture.
“I have been working large in response to the experience of seeing wide expanses of land and sky. My challenge and joy in landscape painting is to capture sensations of color and light. I love seeing the way light fills the sky with certain shades of blue, how it tints the whiteness of clouds with color at different times of day, falls upon the forms of trees, rolls over the hillsides, and reflects on water. I see its effect in the depth of air between near and far. I see it in open space when I look out into a landscape.” Evans 2007.
Born in 1954 in Bremerton, WA, Evans trained in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He currently resides in Healdsburg, CA.
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