Evan Whale

Evan Whale will be at the gallery for a walk-through of his exhibition Transfigured, now on view.

This exhibition includes two room of unique photographs by Evan Whale. Evan Whale’s carved photographs often confuse viewers at first. They are meticulously destroyed photographs, uniquely etched by hand or chemically altered to reveal color from the beneath the print surface – yet, they retain the visual identity of the scene. These color landscapes and botanicals are taken locally in the San Gabriel Mountains, atop the tectonic forces of the San Andreas Fault. The artist is inspired by these invisible seismic forces and he carves tremor waves into the surface of the emulsion. In one sense, the photographs are transformed by drawing and performance; they are records of time and place as well as the artist’s experience of latent anxiety of life atop the fault lines. Inspired by Edmund Burke’s 18th Century writing, Evan Whale offers a meditation on the elusive concept of The Sublime. This is his second exhibition at the gallery, having been part of Deep End: Yale MFA Photo 2014 (Curated by Awol Erizku) during the summer of 2014.

Evan Whale (USA, b. 1987) received his BA in Photography from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2009), and MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). He has had four solo shows, most recently Come and See, Actual Size, Los Angeles (2017); was included in Tomorrow's Man 4 (Curated by Jack Pierson), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2017) and The Times, The Flag Art Foundation, New York City, NY (2017). Evan Whale lives and works in Los Angeles, California.