Being Here

Open weekends 12-4 October 10th-25th, 2020

“My paintings are tools to promote the awareness of architectural space and a viewer’s  presence within it. In my current work, the application of paint is wholly facilitated by the  support structures themselves, ensuring all the implements of the paintings’ creation are  present. In this way, each painting functions to reveal the nature of its own existence. The  immediacy of a direct causal relationship of mark to its origin allow the paintings to shift  from abstraction to actuality. The paintings are simultaneously recording medium and  instrument; not just visual records but articulated proof of an event taken place.  

Rather than the painterly signifiers of the artist’s hand, the mechanically operable support  structures convey the physical interaction of a performer. The works are not meant to  suspend disbelief or satisfy the expectation of pictorial painting. Instead, I am looking to  uncover a meaningful realization in a viewer of confronting reality.”  

Evan Locke

Evan Locke is a Victoria BC based artist and resident with a background in the architectural industry.  He has received a BFA with Honours from the University of Victoria in 2008. Over the past decade Locke has maintained a studio practice while concurrently working as an architectural designer.  In 2017 he completed his Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Visual Arts, also at the University of  Victoria. Locke is currently involved with the non-profit society The Ministry of Casual Living as  a board member and the director of their public window gallery as well as a member of the  City of Victoria’s Art in Public Places Committee.  

Locke’s practice is painting-centric, however the work has increasingly been realized through  three-dimensional structures depicting process and material causality. His work in the  architectural field has influenced how I see art interacting spatially and how it can be used  to create communicative environments. 

Evan Locke’s website: http://squareaffair.com/

Evan’s instagram account @squareaffair