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Email PageNicholas Evans-Cato 2006
October 10, 2006- November 11, 2006
Reception: October 12, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nicholas Evans-Cato
George Billis Gallery
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Brooklyn-based artist Nicholas Evans-Cato draws his inspiration from the continually changing landscape of New York City. ³These paintings represent an effort to exploit the pictorial potential of the urban grid.² The artist is fascinated by the many different perspectives through which the city can be viewed. At street level, Evans-Cato enjoys depicting shadow and detail, but occasionally feels limited by the narrow horizons dictated by the layout of the streets. He often prefers to climb high above the restrictions of the ground below in search of a loftier view of the city, where he can capture a more satisfying panoramic outlook. High altitudes and wide angles allow him to alter the straight path of the streets below. As the artists states, ³While box-like canyons of space at street-level present motifs best captured in a [square] format, in aerial views these tight spaces are exploded by the distortions of panoramic perspective in which curvilinear trajectories mirror the dome of the sky.²
Just as height affords an altered perspective of the city, so does weather. In continued pursuit of veiling the hard edges and straight lines commonly associated with urban landscapes, Nicholas Evans-Cato frequently chooses to paint New York City in the rain and snow. He explains that ³while the rectangular building and orthogonal street grid may be the ultimate manifestation of the urban environment¹s presumed inner logic, in the rain and fog even the most brutally straight lines are softened.² Reflecting his love for the city, Nicholas Evans-Cato continually seeks out situations in which its harsh silhouettes are dulled and its fast pace is subdued.
Nicholas Evans-Cato holds and MFA from Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design. He has received coverage from the New York Times, New York Sun, Greenwich Times, and Art and among others. This is the artist¹s third solo exhibition with the George Billis Gallery.
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