Everything I Have, 2008
Found this posted on the Radiolab blog recently and I flashed back to seeing the original, in person, in Chelsea sometime when I was in college... probably in 2008. It must have been at James Cohan Gallery, which the internet tells me represents Evans in New York.
Home Country, 2008-9
I don't remember if Evans had other pieces hanging at the time, which probably means he didn't because upon looking at all his work, it is CRAZY up my alley. I remember LOVING Everything I Own, perhaps partly because I was feeling material-possessions-poor at time, having had to throw away three boxes of clothes, bags and shoes that had gone moldy in a friend's basement while I was abroad in Argentina.
Dear Diary, 2008
But it was those last two years of college that I really figured out exactly what was up my alley, and then proceeded to try and make art like that and found out that I might not be obsessive enough, introspective enough, or some combination of the two. While there are definitely other types of art that I am drawn to, the following is list of characteristics of art that I will almost 100% guaranteed love:
- a catalogue of things
- map-based (real, imaginary, edited, etc.)
- introspective text
- patterns based on an external system of composition
- obsessive repetition
- diagrams
Maybe Simon Evans was the beginning of this for me.
One Hundred Mix CDs for New York, 2008
(via Radiolab, images via James Cohan Gallery)
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