Rob Evans is one of the highly reputed realist artists in America. Evans, a contemporary painter represented his art form through realism. His paintings traced out the realistic details that his eye witnessed. He never distorted the image thereby removing it away from the truth. The minutest of details is captured in his canvas.
Living and working near Wrightsville, PA he is an artist as well as an independent curator. He is a portrait artist who graduated in Fine Arts from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. His portraits are to be found in private collections throughout the West Coast (Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Museum of Art). He owns two studios… one at San Francisco and the other at Mill Valley. A social person he loves meetings and interacting with people. In his human portraits he explores a special emotion and sketches out something unique to that person. He tries to capture the hidden personality traits in a person.
Some of his well known images are titled Refuge, States of Mind, Migration, Plymouth, The Game, Evening Ritual, Threshold, Pregnant Plant, Burning, Isosceles, Winter Flocks, Arch, Night Life, Radishes, Cicada, Metamorphosis, Storm Surge and Beach at Night
Sharp realism and unusual framings are his trademarks. He creates picture within picture. He is subtle in his usage of images. There is a suggestion of something more beyond the apparent and obvious. He wants his art lovers to look beyond the image and find a story tin his sketch. He has strong fascination for architectural details which is evident in his use frequent use of angles and spaces in the sketches and portraits. He isa meticulous painter and currently he is acting as the organizer and guest curator of a traveling exhibition titled Visions of the Susquehanna.
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