Ned Evans

Ned Evans (b. 1950) 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 movements, Evans blends materials and sensibilities of life along the ocean with life in the studio, creating an aesthetic now considered original to California art.

Evans’ paintings, drawings, and resin sculptures have been displayed in museums and galleries including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Laguna Museum of Art, the Weisman Museum, the Bakersfield Museum of Art.