Chad Evans: Artist: skilled in draughting (drawing), I am also a graphic designer, illustrator, musician, painter, performance artist, sculptor, animator, and webmaster.

I am particularly fond of all things oriental: anime, bunraku (puppet theater), calligraphy, ceramics, costumes, geisha, ink and brush work, kabuki, packaging, storytelling, stone carving, ukiyo-e, and zen gardens.

My art heroes are Giacommetti, Durer, Yoshitoshi, Rauschenburg, Dubuffet, Motherwell, Oldenburg, and DeKooning. I'm also a big fan of Jacob Lawrence, Red Grooms, and Mark DiSuervo. Soon, I'll be putting up a link to an electronic sketchbook.

The following passages are recollections of how I got to here and once completed (read: as it gets fleshed out), will include links to images of works...



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Art: Part XI - Thirty Somethin'


How fortunate i am to have the most outstanding friends!



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Art: Part X - Meletio Electric


Keith Turman, Avalon, Kim Corbet, Sidney, Scooter Smith and Amy Martin...



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Art: Part IX - Fire and Rain


Foam build, Simon Lewis, GET SET, Paris, Daddy-O's studio, Dragonfly...

Jacob Lawrence



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Art: Part VIII - Hot and Cold



Dallas Library, Performance Revue, The Science Place, Ryon House, Paper Routes, NABCO, Karen again...

Isamu Noguchi, Red Grooms



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Art: Part VII - Poetry Circus



500 Cafe, Tim Cloward, Bob Price, Jim Estes, Ric Speed, Octavio Solis, David Davis, Patty Turner, Gallery Theater, On the Air...

Brian Eno, John Cage



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Art: Part VI - Studio 842



Bar of Soap, "Aus Den Sieben Tagen", State Bar, NYC, Kip and Todd Lott...



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Art: Part V - The Twenty-One-One Club



My first studio, Stat Cat, A Few Hits Left, Haute Magazine, Andy Bennet, Jon Lagow, SMU (instructor Barnaby Fitzgerald), Karen...

Jean Dubuffet, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, Mark DiSuervo, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, Utamaru, Hiroshige



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Art: Part IV - Arts Magnet


includes: best friend/"brother" David Darnell; "The Munch Puppies"; good friends, Paul "Moondog" Simon, Mike Merriman, Pat Bentley, Mark Stumpf, Tom Gehring, Michaela Parks, Elisa Jimenez, Chris Morris, Lawrence Quigley; great friend Michelle; Adam Armstrong; and many others...

Instructors: Marilu Gruben, Jerry Daniels, Ms. Diskey, Mr. Mosely, Wanda Hill, Mr. Tabor, Tre Roberts, Stuart Kraft, Terri Lenoir: advice from Bill Kommodore; and model, Diane Schlies.

Influences: Henri Matisse, Robert Rauschenburg, Claus Oldenburg, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Willem DeKooning, The Tubes, Laurie Anderson, Bob Marley, Gary Panter.

Projects: "Ero-Exo", "Toast", and "Roadkill"



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Art: Part III - the teenage years


Junior high school:
includes Mr. Spencer, spirit posters


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Art: Part II - early childhood

Elementary school:
includes Mr. Moon, TAG, first animated film production, mural painting, set work



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Art: Part I - first impressions


Family history/influence

Kindergarten



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Links:



Mark Fiore: amazing political cartoonist


Shag: excellent tiki art


Bawidamann: posters, prints


Scooter Smith: motion graphics


Amy Martin: Moonlady

Arts Magnet Alumni Association
Creative Capital Foundation for the Arts
Dallas Society of Visual Communicators
Art Encyclopedia