Ned Evans: Close Relatives
February 1, 2025 - March 15, 2025
Opening Reception: February 1, 4-6pm
The functional and formal honesty of Ned Evans’ latest paintings reflects his enduring attention to the edge, as both a physical place and an idea—a site of tension, and a source of energy. An avid surfer and student of art and architecture, Evans has spent years contemplating the line between land and sea, between this part and that one. He spent years building artist studios and galleries around Los Angeles; while working on these construction sites, he recorded the process through photographs of the edges and joins, documenting those overlooked points of intersection and intervention essential to these structures. These experiences of the edge are evident in Close Relatives, whose works are animated by the interactions between shape and color and defined by the relationships between individual components. Luminous swatches are stacked and joined to form architectonic images that resist the two-dimensionality of the canvas, and offer lessons in close observation.