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Julie Evans
Lesson from a Guinea Hen
March 5 - April 11, 2009

In her second solo exhibition at Julie Saul Gallery entitled Lesson from a Guinea Hen, Evans continues her exploration of the connection between ornamentation and devotion with a new series of works on paper.

Her inspiration comes from the way adornment is used to honor Hindu Gods in Indian miniature paintings, as well as from Indian life's daily rituals which privilege the visual in very meaningful ways. She borrows some of these same garlands, patterns and other embellishments, and applies them to images of nature, which she chooses to honor instead.

Traditional Pahari or Rajasthani representations of trees, lotus, or water, as well as other natural forms of her own making, rise out of pools of loosely poured color and are painstakingly adorned in fine detail. She mediates the intentional with the intuitive, as well as the figurative and the abstract in these new works, which are markedly different from her earlier ones. Her all-over compositions and spirograph mandalas of the past have given way to central forms, generously surrounded by and floating in white, open space. They are more subdued in both color and mood, yet remain complex in a singular way as they quietly shimmer from mica particles in the paint.

These new works are expansive, dreamlike and reveal themselves slowly, as they continue to reflect Evans' ongoing interest in the intimate and the handmade. They also explore how devotion may be expressed within those qualities through the vehicle of process rather than imagery or object alone.

New York City artist Julie Evans received her MFA in Painting from Brooklyn College, and is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship to India to study Indian miniature painting. She has also received fellowships to The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Millay, and Sanskriti in New Delhi. Recent exhibitions include Art on Paper at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Block Party at Daniel Weinberg Gallery, and Gouache at Geoffrey Young Gallery. Evans' work has been reviewed in many publications including The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The New Yorker, FlashArt, Time Out, Art on Paper, The LA Times, The New York Observer, and The Times of India.

JULIE EVANS
LESSON FROM A GUINEA HEN
MARCH 5 - APRIL 11, 2009

ENTRANCE:
Unbilicalbubble
2008
acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 10”

MAIN GALLERY:
East wall:
Lesson from a Guinea Hen # 2
2008
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
22 x 30”

Lesson from a Guinea Hen # 6
2008
mixed
water based media and color pencil on paper
22 3/4 x 30”

North wall:
Lesson from a Guinea Hen #8
2008
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
22 3/4 x 30”

Lesson from a Guinea Hen # 11
2009
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
30 x 41”

Lesson from a Guinea Hen #1
2008
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
22 x 30”

Lesson from a Guinea Hen #10
2008
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
22 3/4 x 30”

Ahmedabad Drawing (radial spores)
2008
acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 10”

Ahmedabad Drawing (trees)
2008
acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 10”

Ahmedabad Drawing (sprout)
2008
acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 10”

Ahmedabad Drawing (lotus)
2008
acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 10”

Ahmedabad Drawing (garlands)
2008
acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 10”

Ahmedabad Drawing (crown)
2008
acrylic and gouache on paper
12 x 10”

South wall:
Lesson from a Guinea Hen #12
2009
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
30 x 41”

Lesson from a Guinea Hen #5
2008
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
22 3/4 x 30”

Lesson from a Guinea Hen #3
2008
mixed water based media and color pencil on paper
22 x 30”

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