Stephen W. Evans is a painter and preparator living in Birmingham, Alabama.
“The American romantic notion of a “pure” land, untouched and god-given is troubling. Yet these small, intimate and subtle paintings have resuscitated my faith in a representation of American space that feels emotionally pure, where each work is an earnest articulation of individual experience. Humble things, these paintings approach a feeling rather than a specific location. Evans’ delicate, awkward touch renders images that set off a nostalgic chain-reaction in my head. There’s a rustic cabin in the woods, campfire tales. There are folk songs in these paintings, inaudible as they might seem.”
Olivia Jia, Stephen W. Evans’s Landscapes of the Mind, ArtBlog, 2018
Art at Kings Oaks 