Paintings, Drawings, Sculptural Wall Reliefs and Photography
Born 1950 Burbank, California
Lives and works in Venice, California
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"There is an overpowering honesty in these paintings. They are works of color inter-action whose subject is color inter-action, nothing more. Yet looking at them can also provide a lesson in looking, encouraging us to notice the undercurrent of vibrations that animate the world."
RICHARD DAVEY, 2020
"[Ned Evans] pursues meaning through opticality. A lifetime spent watching the water, skies and mountains of California has built an acute optical sensibility. He 'looks' at the glazes of atmosphere that cause the shimmering of west coast light. He 'looks' at the way water ripples over and distorts the vision of his surfboard as it moves through the waves. He 'looks' into waves to read their design and intent."
PROFESSOR JILL GIEGERICH, 2006
"Influenced by the same California light and landscape made famous by hordes of Los Angeles artists, and living just blocks away from the beach at Venice that has spawned more than its fair share of artwork, one finds the works of Ned Evans are rich with the sense of depth and atmosphere that the oceanfront geography evokes."
ROBERT BRANDER, 2005
"Evans' artwork is infused with the light, space and rhythms of southern California. This unique topography of sand, sea and sun-drenched color provides the structural soul of the works...The seeds of origin for much of the current work can be traced to Evans’ love of the outdoors and a desire to transmute the physicality of experience to the work of art. The paintings retain a strong sense of the hand of the artist. They are as much lovingly crafted sculptural objects as they are works engaging in the abstract language of painting."
WILLIAM TURNER, 2005
"Emotive rather than purely visual, the surf-inspired paintings of Venice, California's Ned Evans are obviously evocative of the ocean's sway, but are not depictions so much as a collective of physical and sensory reinterpretations of the surf. After nearly five decades of surfing and painting, a symbiosis occurs between the two, a deeply interwoven relationship feeds both passions."
REBECCA COX