My friend Simon Evans is having his first solo NY show, and it’s really spectacular. When I first met Simon, he was writing short stories–really brilliant ones, short, whimsical and funny. Years later, he began drawing and making collages, but he never really stopped writing, making his work fun to read as well as look at. Here are some words from the press release:
“Simon Evan’s delicate text-based works are collaged and assembled from prosaic materials including found paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white out. They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony. With his anxieties laid bare and his wry brand of melancholy, Evans presents us with a veritable laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, lexicons, diary entries, inventories, cosmologies and epistolary entreaties that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope.”
Among the works in this gallery (26th between 10th and 11th), are Everything I Have (pictured, a catalogue of his belongings), The Green City (a stunning pen-and-paper drawing of a mythical city) and One Hundred Mixed CDs for New York (exactly that, CD sleeves with mixed CDs inside).
This show is up until April 4.
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I got a real pleasure reading you.
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