The Thrift Store Series : Figures from Evans life are carefully placed into artworks acquired from the world's vast jumble-sales. Collaborating with the anonymous artists of these amateur, mass-produced, or paint-by-numbers works, Evans breathes new lives into paintings that once hung in your dentist's office or parent's basement. The result: humor, nostalgia, cliché and occasionally even poignancy swirled together into a bogus extravaganza sure to delight, amuse and provoke the most serious of thoughts.

The Television Series : Glossy CYMK pigments depict scrambled figures distorted by ultra-modern Electric Televisions. Celebrities and Porn-Stars warp majestically next to one another in all their carefully constructed, mechanically reproducible glory. Evans' Painting and Video Display show us that we don't have to hate our TVs after all. Come fall in love with television all over again!

Benjamin Evans
Television 24
2007