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.
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.
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)
Juried/Group Exhibitions
• 11th Annual Small Works Show — 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY — December 2015 to January 2016
• Inside/Outside — Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY — March 2019 to April 2019 — also selected for a gallery talk
• People's Choice Salon Show — Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY — May 2019
• Off the Wall — Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY — November 2019 to January 2020
• Spring Online Exhibition — Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY — April 2020 to May 2020
• LIC-A Members Showcase — Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY —September 2021 to October 2021
• LIC-A at Atlantic, 2020 — Atlantic Gallery, Manhattan, NY — November 2020
• A Queens Fine Art Spring Affair — Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, New York — April 2022 to May 2022
• 10 x 10 - Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL — October 2022 to January 2023
• A Larger Idea: LIC-A's 3rd Annual Drawing Exhibition — The Factory, Queens, NY — February 2023 to March 2023
• Itty-Bitty Art Show — AlterWorks Studio, Queens, NY — April 2023 to May 2023
• Scapes — Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago, IL — May 2023 to July 2023
• Drawing Beyond the Surface — Factory Gallery, Long Island City, NY — March 13 to May 1, 2024
Solo Exhibitions
• The Interludes - Printmaking Gallery - University Wisconsin, Lacrosse, Lacrosse, WI — February 2016 to June 2016
• Helen Figge Moss Memorial Exhibition - Stony Brook School, Stony Brook, NY — March 2016 to April 2016