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Maurice Evans Gallery |
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Gallery Description
Maurice Evans, the world-famous artist was born on an air force base in Smyrna, Tennessee. He was an art-lover and had all the potential of a great artist even when he was small. He showed a deep interest in art and was good at illustration from an early age. His first job was at the age of fourteen when he started working as a freelance artist for a commercial art firm in Georgia. He also studied fashion illustration from the Art Institute of Atlanta where he won a scholarship.
During later years, he worked in commercial art, fashion illustration and medical illustration. But these jobs were not very interesting to him. His need and passion for self-expression were not fulfilled in these jobs and so he turned to the job that would later become his passion and motivation. He took up fine art.
Though he has been in the industry only for a short while, he has evolved a style of his own. His paintings incorporate many of the elements from the fashion illustration industry including the movement, exaggeration and elongation of the human body. His paintings are notable for their rich texture, intense emotions and exaggerated perspectives. His attention to detail and his striking use of colors could have come from nowhere else, but the fashion industry. He is also a practicing musician which explains his partiality towards musical themes. Some of his paintings portray depictions of musical instruments.
Maurice Evans has also created a different and very interesting body of work including whimsical decorative pieces, funky graffiti-inspired series and covertly political work aimed at the art establishment. His paintings and works have been exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions at a national level.
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Saturday, July, 5 th
2008
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