Tending Towards the Untamed
@ Wave Hill
Bronx, NY
April 3 - Aug 19
COWDUST
Below is the series of collaborative pieces I did in India with my friend Ajay Sharma, a miniature painter in Jaipur. They were shown at Julie Saul gallery this past winter.
COWDUST was reviewed in Feb. issue of ARTFORUM and Jan. issue of ART in AMERICA
JULIE EVANS + AJAY SHARMA
Collaborative Paintings
@ Julie Saul Gallery
535 W. 22 St NYC 10011
Nov.4 - Dec 23 2010
CrownedLotusBall
FALL/WINTER EXHIBITIONS:
*GOUACHE AND GOUACHE ONLY @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
and Andrea Meislin Gallery Chelsea, NY, curated by Geoffrey Young
*PRELUDE @ Julie Chae Gallery, Boston, MA
*KUF MOLD @ The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey
*PINK @ Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
*WILD FLOWERS @ Buck House, NYC
New Works by JULIE EVANS @ JULIE SAUL GALLERY
MARCH 29 - MAY 5, 2007
Opening reception: Thurs.
March 29th 6-8 PM
The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of new gouache and acrylic paintings on paper and panel by New York artist Julie Evans. Her work brings together influences of contemporary Western abstraction with those of traditional, Eastern miniature painting, combing the most delicate patterning and layering with bold forms and swathes of intensely rich color. The work is deeply sensual and at the same time playful, suggesting both the spiritual and popular nature of ornamentation. They employ complicated palettes that pair those borrowed from traditional Indian miniatures with the brightness of fluorescent pinks and acidic greens, underscoring the double-mindedness of the work.
Evans works slowly and painstakingly, rendering delicate garlands and intricate mandalas, and filling large expanses of color with tiny, countless, vertical strokes. She creates ambiguous spaces within spaces that are at once both micro and macro in realm, keeping the viewer up close to these intimate works, but with the sense of their broader reach into place and time.
She has worked in India and Nepal, including travel and research supported by a Fulbright Scholarship studying with a master of Indian miniature painting. Critic Mario Naves wrote of Evans' work that she "creates vistas infinitely more expansive than the physical parameters of the paintings support. Clearly the conventions of Indian miniature paintings have become second nature to her."
Evans has been exhibiting her work extensively in both the US and abroad since completing her MFA at Brooklyn College in 1992. Her work is included in many private and public collections including the Rubin Musuem of Art, JP Morgan - Chase, the Progressive Corporation, US Trust Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank.
A catalog with 10 plates and an essay by critic Michael Duncan is available. For further information contact Lisa Fontana at 212-627-2410 or mail to lisa@saulgallery.com
VILLAGE VOICE
ART April 30th, 2007
BEST IN SHOW
Where the Mechanical Things Are - Recommendations by R.C. Baker
JULIE EVANS- These sumptuous little paintings lithely entwine dichotomies: East/West, pattern/depth, color/line, sensual/geometric. Evans's images begin with a tool grown dusty in many a basement and attic—the Spirograph. She spins her everyman mandalas with a pencil and sometimes painstakingly fills them in with vibrant flower-petal colors. She has worked in Nepal and India, and blends their rich traditions of patterning with the amorphously scraped color fields familiar from postwar abstraction, against which her lush curves, beads, and necklaces of paint coalesce into the flora of wondrous dreams. Julie Saul, 535 W 22nd, 212-627-2410. Through May 5.
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