Mediums - oil, acrylic, graphite, pastel

Artist's Statement -For the last two decades I have worked exclusively with representational imagery in a variety of media. My work explores such themes as the inevitability of change, the passaage of time, and the cycles of life, death, growth and decay. By pulling unconventional metaphor from the commonplace people, places and things that surround me it is my hope to create a body of work that has relevence in the contemporary art realm.

Biography - Rob Evans is an artist and independent curator who lives and works near Wrightsville, PA. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in 1981 and has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the E.D. Foundation, the Eben Demarest Trust and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. His paintings have been featured in numerous books, newspapers and magazines and on public radio and television. As an independent curator Evans recently organized the traveling exhibition "Visions of the Susquehanna: 250 Years of Paintings by American Masters" which included works by Benjamin West, Thomas Moran, Jasper Francis Cropsey, George Inness, William Sanford Gifford, Charles Demuth, Mark Innerst, Leonard Koscianski, Debra Bermingham, Randall Exon, George Sorrels and Matthew Daub. The exhibit traveled to six venues and was accompanied by an 80 page catalog. More info about this exhibit and book can be found at http://www.robevansart.net/id175.html.

Gallery Affiliations - Evans' work can be found in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, Evansville, IN; Portland (OR) Art Museum; State Museum of Pennsylvania; Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Lancaster(PA) Museum of Art; Allentown (PA) Art Museum; and the University of Delaware.

Exhibitions - Evans' meticulous paintings and drawings have been featured in numerous solo and curated group exhibitions at such places as the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow; Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN; Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia; Arkansas Art Center; Butler Institute of American Art,Youngstown, OH; National Science Foundation; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA and an exhibition of American drawings organized by the Smithsonian Institution which toured internationally. Most recently, Evans' 10 foot long painting, Cicada, traveled to five museums around the state of Pennsylvania as part of the exhibit, Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950-2000. The painting is now on permanent display at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA.