Ned Evans

Ned Evans is a painter and life-long surfer who lives and works in Venice, California. He received his BFA and MFA from the University of California Irvine in the 1970s, when local legends Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, Larry Bell, and Craig Kauffman taught there. Like other artists in LA’s Finish Fetish and Light and Space groups, the ability to blend materials and sensibilities of life in the ocean with life in the studio, led to artistic inventions now considered original to California art. Evans’ resin drips and pools are unique and suggestively figurative extensions of Peter Alexander’s cubes, while his H20 paintings of simple striped and patterned seascapes are playful and fresh, with a flat, abstracted realism akin to Milton Avery’s.

Evans’ work has been displayed in galleries and museums like Andrea Schwartz Gallery, Gallery 169, William Turner Gallery, the Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Perrotin Gallery, the Bakersfield Art Museum, the Weisman Museum, and Gallery 1307. 

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