Diatribes, Manifestos, Education, and the like.

Manifesto "The world doesn't pose. The story doesn't stop for consideration. We assemble reality as we are experiencing it. A constant editing process goes on in the brain. The information we are given coalesces into images we can agree on. So it's color and motion and sudden darkness. That's all we get from our eyes, all we get from our memories, and all I can get down on paper."

Education Gestural abstraction, German expressionism, elision. These are words that elicit a certain unaccountable thrill, similar to a young man's excitement at accidentally stumbling on, not only an undeniably dirty word, but one which describes something heretofore unimagined. The above metaphor proves especially sturdy not only in that it conjoins a sweet, sweet memory to a contemporary intellectual sensation, but that it further suggests the zeal, as well as the uneven nature of its further pursuit and investigation. Fortunately such words, when found in art books, are accompanied by many, many pictures.

Biography/Bitter diatribe J. Evans probably began to draw sometime in 1970 in Boston, where this interest was either discouraged or cheered depending on which papers you read. Shortly thereafter the plucky lad was dispatched to Texas where his continued drawing was met with barely concealed emotion. His timely return to the 'greater' Boston area was timely enough that he was able to sample a few of the local high schools before he was seduced away by the lure of crushing rents and low wage labor into 'adulthood.' A brief* period of sordid misadventure followed in which very little drawing got done. He's been desperately making up for lost time since '95 or so.

*geologically