Nathaniel Evans
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Nathaniel Evans

United States • 1985

Biography

Nathaniel Evans's paintings are like little ghost stories drawn from a childhood in Appalachia under the strict upbringing of an apostolic Pentecostal family.

His images of people compressed into claustrophobic scenes are anxious and oppressive, with tones of violence under the surface. Layers of muted colors are scraped and agitated across the surface of otherwise photorealistic paintings, as if burying the image into the unconscious paintings.
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