Ric Evans - 2007 New Paintings

At Winchester Galleries on Broad Street

Opening: Saturday, April 7, 2007 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Exhibition continues until April 28, 2007

Ric Evans has made Toronto a home-base for his career as painter and has also taught sessionally at various institutions including the University of Toronto, Art College of Ontario, Emily Carr College of Art, York University, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the University of Southern Alberta. His painting style is non-representational and figure-ground yet with its depiction of rectangles, pure colour juxtaposed with unnameable colour, and sometimes rough edges and textures, the style, the imagery, evokes architecture, other aspects of the built environment and sometimes the influence of natural forces as when, for instance, an edge appears distressed. The intentional early removal of masking tape achieves a weathered effect and also informs of the fabrication process.

Of his Toronto generation, Ric Evans is unusual in being more hard-edge than painterly or expressionist. He began with a conceptual approach but has increasingly become a sumptuous colourist

Ric Evans is widely regarded as among the most important abstract artists working in Canada today.