Joseph Christie Evans

These were the paintings I worked with in 2021 - I went back to a more figurative approach and focused on the physical infrastructure of wood as the most presentable for a space for the subject to exist. The works are pictures of friends, acting as a physical extension of an instagram post and a contemporary positioning of figurative portraiture. I was thinking about Jeffrey Smart, Franz Gertsch, Alex Katz (in terms of being okay with Stylism in painting), Early Gerhard Richter and some of the work of Walter Richard Sickert.