Dr Chris Evans
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: C.J.Evans@ljmu.ac.uk
Chris Evans is an artist and a Reader in Contemporary Fine Art. He teaches at Liverpool School of Art and Design and De Ateliers, Amsterdam.
Evans' art practice often evolves through conversation with people from diverse walks of life, selected in relation to their public life or symbolic role, for example, the directors of a leading champagne house, a former member of the British Constructivists, the CEO of a Texas pharmaceutical company, a selection of elderly Italian politicians, an anonymous philanthropist etc. Sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts and unwieldy social situations created as a result of this, are indexes of a larger structure through which Evans deliberately confuses the roles of artist and patron, author and muse. Likewise his role in this is contradictory: moving between artistic freedom and social responsibility, individuality and the collective, sovereignty and involvement. He is interested in the notion of the monument and its discontent and the hidden relations behind the fruition of a cultural object for public use – for example, how beliefs, social status and ideological positions are negotiated in the work of art – and how these might be questioned through the invention of absurd alternative procedures to produce sculpture. Through a desire to make art that has at it outset political motivation - finding fault lines in the politicisation of culture - its utilitarian function as social ameliorative or harbinger of urban regeneration - Evans is intent on maintaining its connection with personal, poetic or imaginative investigation.
Languages
Spanish; Castilian
Degrees
2020, Northumbria University, United Kingdom, PhD
1993, Winchester School of Art in Barcelona, Spain, MA Fine Art
Highlighted publications
Evans CJ. Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform Author Url Publisher Url
Composition
Evans C, Potter RC. 2022. SUDDEN WEALTH with Roy Claire Potter Author Url Publisher Url
Artefact
Evans C. 2018. A Sculpture for the Councillor of Culture (Neuchâtel) Author Url Publisher Url
Evans C. 2018. Home Economics Author Url Publisher Url
Evans C. 2017. Cowlick Author Url Publisher Url
Evans C. 2017. Jingle Author Url Publisher Url
Evans C. 2015. Errors Hit Orient Author Url Publisher Url
Evans CJ. 2014. A Needle Walks Into a Haystack Author Url Publisher Url
Evans C. 2014. Untitled (Drippy Etiquette), Author Url Publisher Url
Evans C. 2005. Cop Talk Author Url
Evans CJ. Home Entertainment Author Url
Books (authored)
Evans C. 2011. Goofy Audit, Collected Works, 1998-2011 9781934105740
International Project Space Birmingham E. 2007. Militant bourgeois
McBride R, Rubsamen G, O'Sullivan S, Burrows D, Cytter K, Holder W, Bradley W, Ratnam N, Gillick L, Gorey E, Irvine J, Tatham J, O'Sullivan T, Fagen G, Roussel R, Soobramanien N, Timoney P, Welton M, Wood J. 2006. Magnetic Promenade Evans CJ, Evans C. :1-176 Studio Voltaire. London Author Url Publisher Url
Evans C. 2001. Gemini Sculpture Park
Abbas N, Chen H, Chong H, Dickman M, Dodge J, Pester H, Keefer A, Soobramanien N, Vishmidt M, Žakaitis J. Job Interviews Evans CJ. :1-60 Para Site, Hong Kong & Uh Books. Hong Kong & Berlin 9780995713321 Author Url Publisher Url
Exhibition
Evans CJ. Hat, Hat, Hat, Uniform Author Url Publisher Url
Evans CJ. Village Lawyer Author Url Publisher Url
Evans CJ. Chris Evans, Pak Sheung Chuen Two solo exhibitions Author Url Publisher Url
Evans CJ. Clerk of Mind, Author Url Publisher Url
Evans CJ, Bernstein D, Connor F, Jamison AF, Sijben R, Ziqiang Wu J, Vajda D. Bureau of Unspecified Services Author Url Publisher Url
Highlighted activities
External committees:
Board of Trustees, Liverpool Biennial, Trustee, https://www.biennial.com/.
Professional activities
Conference presentation:
ARTISTS' IDEALS AND THE IDEAL CURATOR - Chris Evans & Praxes, ARTISTS' IDEALS AND THE IDEAL CURATOR, Witte de With, Oral presentation. 2016
Chris Evans & Praxis, Berlin, Artists’ Ideals and the Ideal Curator, Witte de With, Oral presentation. 2016
External committees:
Board of Trustees, Liverpool Biennial, Trustee, https://www.biennial.com/.