Hillhacks

A Talk by Chris McEvoy, at Unconference

Christopher McEvoy will discuss his creative process related to his current body of mixed media work. This work, drawn from photography and digital manipulation, is coupled with a more organic, hands-on process of transformation and abstraction through painting and collage.

Christopher McEvoy will discuss his creative process related to his current body of mixed media work. This work, drawn from photography and digital manipulation, is coupled with a more organic, hands-on process of transformation and abstraction through painting and collage. Through this lens, McEvoy explores our observation and understanding of the exterior world as distilled by technology and human experience. For McEvoy this body of work “dwells in the space between abstraction and representation, and within the canvas I strive to reconcile disparate states by morphing imagery to create a hybrid pictorial reality that serves as a dialogue between the intangible and corporeal, entropy and unity, devastation and rejuvenation.“

Christopher McEvoy received his MFA in Painting from Boston University. He later spent a year as the Starr Scholar at the Royal Academy of Art in London. McEvoy has exhibited his work in various group and solo exhibitions in London, Boston and New York. Recent solo exhibitions in New York include Liminal States at the Wells College String Room Gallery, Aurora, NY and Transformer at the EOH Galley, Earlville, NY. He has been awarded multiple grants and fellowships, most recently a Scholarly and Creative Arts Faculty Grant, and artist residency fellowships at Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and at the Oberfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Germany. McEvoy is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and the Coordinator of Painting at the State University of New York at Oswego. He lives and works in Oswego, NY.

http://chrismcevoy.com/