Gretchen Evans

Artist Statement

I am proud to announce that Disappearing Woman II was chosen for the DeYoung Open 2023.

When working as an interior designer for 25 years, interiors became my canvases. So when I went back to painting with “real” canvases in my Montreal studio, not surprisingly, my first attempts were images of studio interiors and objects.

A Pillar series began with an industrial support post in my studio, evolved into classical Greek, totem, circus, & calligraphic columns ending with an ionic eyed ET painting.

Both in Montreal and Sausalito, I have painted from live models typically positioned mysteriously with backs in the forefront. My latest Disappearing Women series relates to the secondary “roles” women have played throughout history. A new Foodscape series has emerged as well from a Bird’s eye view Topography series.

My work is loose, free-flowing & non-conforming yet with recognizable imagery as well as abstracts. The mediums I use are acrylics, oil stick, collage on paper and canvas as well as monoprints with akua ink & “chine colle” on paper.

Biography

I have been a working studio artist for approximately 20 years both in Montreal and Sausalito at the ICB. Previous to that I had my own interior design business, Gretchen Evans Interiors, working both internationally and domestically.

Art Medium(s)

Acrylic Paint, Prints and Printmaking, Mixed Media

Group Exhibitions

DeYoung Open 2023 – San Francisco September 30, 2023-January 7, 2024
“Universal Languages—Paint, Prints, and Photography”, The Little Gallery, OSU, Corvallis, Oregon/ November 1-December 20, 2021
The Bindery – Monoprints Solo show, San Francisco, December 2019 -February 2020
ICB Gallery – Monoprints Solo show, November 2019
ICB 50th Anniversary Showcase, Marin County Civic Center, October 2, 2018 – January 10, 2019
ICB Gallery 111, Group Show, February 2017
Gallery Complexe du Canal Lachine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Annual Group Shows, 2008-2011
American’s in Zurich, Group Show, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001
Acquisitions Committee for Non-Canadian Art-Post 1900, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2008-2010
Joe Ruggiero’s Homes Across America, National Television appearance, HGTV, 1998
Northern Ohio Live Magazine, Article “Into the Light”, May 1999
Gallery 76, Two Women Show, “Old Spokane,” Ceramics,
Spokane, Washington 1972
Annual Student Art Show, Eastern Washington University, Cheney 1971
Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane,Washington, Student Show 1971
E.S.U. Traveling Student Exhibit 1971-1972

Awards

DeYoung Open 2023