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During the creation of the work, I place myself within a pataphysical relation to the 'systems' allowing a lot for chance to inform my direction. I'm wholly involved in the information I'm tackling and the broader narrative I've envisioned, yet without a clear idea of what exactly the definitive message or critique should be. Perhaps, the subjective recreation of the mediated world around me and my relationship to that recreated landscape is the cathartic critique, and, at the very least, is an extension of positioning myself within those systems. After that, time passes, memories morph, and the context of where the work is seen changes. Also, the interaction and deciphering of the viewer through their personal biases changes the way the pieces are read. So, the content becomes malleable in relation to time, memory, context, and history, not to mention what is novel at the time the work is consumed. With this, the critique encountered by the viewer (and myself) continues but also changes in various and unexpected ways.
(from "Artist Profile: Cliff Evans" by Louis Doulas on Rhizome.org)
Cliff Evans was born in NSW, Australia and grew up in East Texas. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Exhibited extensively throughout the United States and the world, Evans' work has been shown in such spaces as The New Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, and Location One in New York City; The Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Illinois; Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California; Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City, Mexico; Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France; Artsonje Museum in Seoul, Korea; and the Today Museum, Beijing, China.
Evans' work has appeared and been reviewed in various media and publications including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Artforum, Flashart, Artreview, Rhizome.org, Art Lies, and National Public Radio.
Evans has also been an artist-in-residence at Boston Symphony Orchestra Tanglewood, Lenox, MA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; and Location One International Residency Program, New York, NY.
Presentations, lectures, and talks featuring Evans and his work have been held at Columbia University, Brown University, University of Denver, Pratt Institute, Ringling College of Art and Design, University of Maryland - College Park, College of New Rochelle, University of South Dakota, and Florida Gulf Coast University.
Cliff Evans currently lives and works in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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