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Press Release Checklist Julie Evans March 29 - May 5, 2007 The Julie Saul Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of new gouache and acrylic paintings on paper and panel by New York artist Julie Evans. Her work brings together influences of contemporary Western abstraction with those of traditional, Eastern miniature painting, combing the most delicate patterning and layering with bold forms and swathes of intensely rich color. The work is deeply sensual and at the same time playful, suggesting both the spiritual and popular nature of ornamentation. They employ complicated palettes that pair those borrowed from traditional Indian miniatures with the brightness of fluorescent pinks and acidic greens, underscoring the double-mindedness of the work. Evans works slowly and painstakingly, rendering delicate garlands and intricate mandalas, and filling large expanses of color with tiny, countless, vertical strokes. She creates ambiguous spaces within spaces that are at once both micro and macro in realm, keeping the viewer up close to these intimate works, but with the sense of their broader reach into place and time. She has worked in India and Nepal, including travel and research supported by a Fulbright Scholarship studying with a master of Indian miniature painting. Critic Mario Naves wrote of Evans' work that she "creates vistas infinitely more expansive than the physical parameters of the paintings support. Clearly the conventions of Indian miniature paintings have become second nature to her." Evans has been exhibiting her work extensively in both the US and abroad since completing her MFA at Brooklyn College in 1992. Her work is included in many private and public collections including the Rubin Musuem of Art, JP Morgan - Chase, the Progressive Corporation, US Trust Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank. A catalog with 10 plates and an essay by critic Michael Duncan is available. JULIE EVANS MARCH 29 - MAY 5, 2007 ENTRANCE: Blue Lotus 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on wood panel 12 x 12 MAIN GALLERY: East wall: Jhunjhunu (night) 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 17 x 14 Jhunjhunu (dusk) 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 17 x 14 North wall: Biophilia 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Radiadiate 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 17 x 15 Mighty Hospitable 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 17 x 15 Red River Extract #3 2005 acrylic, gouache and pencil on wood panel 12 x 9 Red River Extract #1 2005 acrylic, gouache on wood panel 12 x 9 Red River Extract #2 2005 acrylic, gouache and pencil on wood panel 12 x 9 Red,Steady,Flow 2005 acrylic, gouache on wood panel 10 x 8 Its Good to be Reminded (Lotus Dark) 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 17 x 15 Perch 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on wood panel 18 x 18 Its Good to be Reminded (Lotus Light) 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 17 x 15 South wall: Squirt 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on wood panel 12 x 12 Soul+Space+Time 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on wood panel 14 x 11 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #2 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #3 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #4 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #1 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #2 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #3 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #4 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #1 2006 acrylic, gouache and pencil on paper on wood panel 12 x 9 top For additional information contact the gallery back |
 Jhunjhunu (night)  Jhunjhunu (dusk)  Biophilia  Radiadiate  Mighty Hospitable  Red River Extract #3  Red River Extract #1  Red River Extract #2 
Red,Steady,Flow  Its Good to be Reminded (Lotus Dark)  Perch  Its Good to be Reminded (Lotus Light)  Squirt  Soul+Space+Time  Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #2  Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #3  Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #4  Sky Robed Spiro-Zone #1 |