The Work

Evan Brown, an artist and printmaker with an MFA from Penn State University, creates visual representations of neurodiversity by drawing from his personal experiences of having a son with Autism and himself with ADHD. His recent work explores the management and dissonance of these conditions and invites viewers to reflect on the emotional and cognitive constructs necessary to face the challenges of executive function deficits.

Ironically, Evan's images are created and composed exclusively on a mobile phone, which some people view as a potential aggravator of neurodevelopment disorders. However, Evan sees it as a tool to focus and refine his ideas into visual metaphors that embrace the idiosyncratic and ambiguous nature of a mind processing the meaning of mental deficit and diversity.

Evan's ongoing series of uneditioned images, titled "The Interludes," is a suite of metaphoric mindscapes created in the spaces between the artist's "performative moments" in life that demand shifts in focus and attention. These transitional moments, such as work, raising children, helping within the household, or focusing on personal relationships, can be particularly challenging for those who struggle with ADHD. Each hand-drawn mark and each photographic asset in "The Interludes" is layered over the next and blended, with anywhere between 50 to 250 individual pieces incorporated to construct a unified and aesthetic whole. For Evan, these images also represent efforts in persistence and patience, one-by-one and step-by-step, as he creates a visual representation of the challenges and beauty of neurodiversity.

The Prints

• Giclée/digital images are uneditioned and printed using an Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000 on Canon Premium Matte photo paper
  
• Unframed, 10 x 10 inch digital prints: $250
• Framed, 12 x 12 inch: $350  (via Frame-it-Easy)

About

Evan Brown, an artist and printmaker, earned his MFA from Penn State University. He has work in collections at Dartmouth College, Penn State University, University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse, and The Stoney Brook School in Stoney Brook, NY, where he was the Hellen Figge Moss Memorial Exhibition Artist in Residence in 2015. Evan is also a member of Long Island City Artists and has been featured in several juried group shows in Queens and Manhattan in New York City, and Chicago. His work has been recognized by Pixar, noted for various online image processing apps, and he recently had a piece purchased by SONY pictures to be featured on the set of the upcoming AppleTV series "Dark Matter." Evan was born in Toronto and now resides in Queens, NY with his wife and two sons.