Kevin Evans

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About the Artists:

In his painting and intaglio artwork Kevin Evans looks to the concealed natural world for inspiration. He moves forward through projects with a combination of instinct and imagination.

Biography:

Kevin Evans is a published illustrator, fine artist and a 16+ years video game industry veteran.

Evans holds a BFA in illustration and painting. His company affiliations include: Lucas Arts / Lucas film, Marvel Comics, Sega, Sony, Activision, Take2 and Mondo Media. Highlights of the 17+ titles he has worked on include: “Afterlife”, “Outlaws”, “Jedi Knight”, “Star Wars Starfighter”, “Gladius”, and “Republic Commando”. Evans is also a consultant to San Francisco City College’s emerging computer arts program.

Freelance illustration clients include, among many others, San Francisco Chronicle, Mondo 2000, The Nose, American Brewer, East Bay Express, S.F. Bay Guardian, Sacramento News & Review, City Magazine, and Project H.E.A.R.

In addition to work in the games industry and illustration, Evans' artwork has been included in many fine art exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Highlights include Varnish Fine Art and Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, The Kellogg University Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Arts Council of Sonoma County Gallery, Nicolet College Art Gallery and Maison d'Ailleurs Museum of Utopia in Switzerland. In 2009 he co-curated a group show with Carrie Galbraith, "Kinkade Cannibalized," as the inaugural opening of Winston Smith’s "Grant's Tomb Gallery" in San Francisco.

Evans' artwork has been featured in various publications including a Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by HP Lovecraft, Centipede Press, and Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos, Gakken, Japan.

Résumé:

Selected Exhibitions:

Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco

Winston Smith's Grant's Tomb Gallery

Meridian Gallery, San Francisco

Somar Gallery, San Francisco

Maison d'Ailleurs, Museum of Utopia in Switzerland

Nicolet College Art Gallery

Arts Council of Sonoma County Gallery

University of Wisconsin-Parkside

The Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly CA

ArtSPACE @ 16, Malden MA

Periscope Cellars, Emeryville CA

Rhythmix K Gallery, Alameda CA

Miscellaneous References:

A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by HP Lovecraft, Centipede Press

Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos, Gakken, Japan

RE/Search Publications: "PRANKS 2!"

This Is Burning Man (By Brian Doherty)

Dust And Illusions (film) by Olivier Bonin

Statement:

My imagery is a concoction of influence from the natural concealed world, instinct, and the cavernous depths of imagination and subconscious. The process is a provoking push and pull journey within medium and self with sporadic introductions of chaos to ensure an unpredictable voyage towards the concluding outcome. When working, I investigate the interior terrain favoring an existence within a silent emblematic space. I deposit symbols, characters, and texture -following an intuitive voice leading to unanticipated and surprising consequence. In essence, the images I create are a field guide picture album of haphazardly collaged bits and pieces of things that have imbedded themselves in my conscious and subconscious, evoking arcane and primordial ripples. The creation first begins as a sequence of visual ramblings in sketchbook. Intermittently, unsystematic rudiments and marks of disorder are introduced; on occasion regions destroyed or erased acting as a reaction trigger. It’s a procedure of embracing an atmosphere of unpredictability and Memento Mori. When the illustration has attained a condition of termination, it is then transmitted to canvass, panel, or printed in the intaglio method.