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25/2/2004

John Evans

Locura Gallery, San Francisco

PAINTINGS AND POLAROIDS SHOW

John Evans works are influxes of the indigestible, featuring the impure private self: what we see on bathroom walls while pissing; undertones of sex and violence on TV; erect peni; cynical and perverted thoughts popping in and out of our minds. Evans says his works reflect thoughts we all have, it s the psyche that eventually comes out. Evans has been making art since 1991. He was born and raised in the Bay Area but has lived in Los Angeles since attending and graduating from UCLA. His painting repertoire consists of 1,500 or more works, mostly large scale, measuring an average of 4 x 5 feet. Evans shows have been exclusive to Ghettogloss Gallery in Los Angeles. Painting and Polaroids is his first show in San Francisco.

After graduating college, Evans began developing his creativity by cutting out images from magazines and newspapers. He taped these mini scenes to his walls and ceiling so that eventually, his apartment was completely covered. Moving to another space, Evans removed the pictorial segments from his walls and mounted them onto pieces of wood. These became backgrounds for Evans first paintings. Evans has always been attracted to photography. In 1999, his friend Benicio Del Toro introduced him to a Macro 5 SLR Polaroid camera. With this tool, Evans could capture tiny sections and details of his collage paintings. Evans recently published a collection of his Polaroids in a mini book entitled Dummy, available through Ghettogloss Gallery.

Evans first book, My Missing Dissertation, is also available through Ghettogloss. Paintings and Polaroids features approximately 100 of Evans paintings and polaroids. In addition, Dummy will be featured and available for purchase. Works in the show include his color, as well as black and white paintings, all exploring themes of lowbrow culture, pornography, violence and child-like humor. Locura, a spacio-temporal gallery seeks out emerging, avant-garde artists. It was established in 2002 by part-time filmmaker Lisamarie Inesi. Locura s roving gallery concept breaks conventional notions of the gallery as fixed space.

This gallery in transit concept allows Locura to be part and parceled out to different venues from one avant-garde artist to the next. Locura is unique because it is portable. Although based in San Francisco, Locura circulates and roams, aiming more to offer artists the opportunity to exhibit rather than be defined or restricted by limitations of a more permanent domain.

Paintings and Polaroids will show at Capella SF at 270 14th Street, San Francisco. Further information about Evans, Locura and Paintings and Polaroids can be found at the website or please contact the gallery at 415-928-2980.

Locura Gallery at Capella SF, 270 14th Street, San Francisco

Artist Reception Thursday, February 26th
6:30pm - 10:30pm

Hours:
Thursday & Saturday 11-5pm
All other times by appointment

Locura Gallery
270 14th Street
San Francisco, Ca.
415-928-2980

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