Christopher Evans 'Seems like a nice spot to be alone'
"Seems like a nice spot to be alone" Oil on canvas, 10"x10", 2020.
Artist Statement
“My work is a Post-Neo-Dadaistic response to current national and global crises - and the delusions, fantasies, and toxic emotions that are attached to that relationship framed within a dystopian parallel universe. There is a repetition of self-flagellation in a frustrated response to media consumption, targeted marketing, socially embedded masculinity, and general capitalist blight. Imbedded within, is a macabre, mercurial and humorously self-deprecating grotesqueness often used to mask a dangerous mix of fear and frustrated anger.”
Artist Bio
Christopher Evans (b.1985, Schenectady, NY, USA) is an artist, educator, and writer. Christopher holds an MA in Studio Arts from the University at Albany and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida. His work and writings focus on mental health disorders, body image, and where they interact. He draws from his own depression, anxiety, and unique evangelical upbringing. His work is saturated with obviousness, grotesqueness, clichés, and bad jokes as he tries to visually navigate causations and contradictions. Christopher currently works and resides in Saratoga Springs, NY.
"Seems like a nice spot to be alone" Oil on canvas, 10"x10", 2020.
Artist Statement
“My work is a Post-Neo-Dadaistic response to current national and global crises - and the delusions, fantasies, and toxic emotions that are attached to that relationship framed within a dystopian parallel universe. There is a repetition of self-flagellation in a frustrated response to media consumption, targeted marketing, socially embedded masculinity, and general capitalist blight. Imbedded within, is a macabre, mercurial and humorously self-deprecating grotesqueness often used to mask a dangerous mix of fear and frustrated anger.”
Artist Bio
Christopher Evans (b.1985, Schenectady, NY, USA) is an artist, educator, and writer. Christopher holds an MA in Studio Arts from the University at Albany and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida. His work and writings focus on mental health disorders, body image, and where they interact. He draws from his own depression, anxiety, and unique evangelical upbringing. His work is saturated with obviousness, grotesqueness, clichés, and bad jokes as he tries to visually navigate causations and contradictions. Christopher currently works and resides in Saratoga Springs, NY.
"Seems like a nice spot to be alone" Oil on canvas, 10"x10", 2020.
Artist Statement
“My work is a Post-Neo-Dadaistic response to current national and global crises - and the delusions, fantasies, and toxic emotions that are attached to that relationship framed within a dystopian parallel universe. There is a repetition of self-flagellation in a frustrated response to media consumption, targeted marketing, socially embedded masculinity, and general capitalist blight. Imbedded within, is a macabre, mercurial and humorously self-deprecating grotesqueness often used to mask a dangerous mix of fear and frustrated anger.”
Artist Bio
Christopher Evans (b.1985, Schenectady, NY, USA) is an artist, educator, and writer. Christopher holds an MA in Studio Arts from the University at Albany and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida. His work and writings focus on mental health disorders, body image, and where they interact. He draws from his own depression, anxiety, and unique evangelical upbringing. His work is saturated with obviousness, grotesqueness, clichés, and bad jokes as he tries to visually navigate causations and contradictions. Christopher currently works and resides in Saratoga Springs, NY.