Shawn Evans       September 30, 2008   During the summer months, watch this page to view the newest works to arrive at the Assiniboia Gallery!   All works are available for sale by phone, fax, email or through our web site. Click on thumbnail for a larger image: Untitled I Oil on canvas 60 x 60 Inches   $ 3355 (includes frame) Untitled III Oil on canvas 40 x 40 Inches   $ 1760 (includes frame) Untitled II Oil on canvas 60 x 60 Inches   $ 3355 (includes frame) Untitled Oil on canvas 24 x 24 Inches   SOLD More work available from the artist Shawn Evans Shawn Evans, born and raised in Saskatchewan, currently divides his time between Calgary and Regina. With years of formal instruction and experience in painting and drawing, Evans is quickly establishing himself as one of Saskatchewan’s young, upcoming artists. Artist Statement: Abstraction is more than an unconscious process in my work. Although it started that way, I found I needed a more methodical approach to painting. Architecture enters here as a subject and likewise, acts as a starting point and something to work from. Format, composition, line, and colour have all been constructed from it. I wanted a feeling of physical structures within these works to set up relations between the painted surface and my subject, both formally and conceptually. Each work engages these relationships differently. Some evoke a calm, ordered space, where in others, this space is chaotic and converging; the rhythm is more violent and sporadic. Close-up, all that can be perceived is the picture surface itself, the layers of paint that constitute the line work. Only from a distance can these lines form levels of structural space. This space has been constructed out of a reality, where these planes act as an ideal space or mental representation of my subject. Moving from Regina to Calgary has been the force behind these pieces. The uncomfortable adjustment to new surroundings is paralleled in my work, where I have attempted to create associations to both the overwhelming chaos of a big city and the quiet seclusion to which I am accustomed. The influence from architecture acts as a facilitator in this – in finding a balance between order and chaos.