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John Evans

John Evans (Born 1932) is active/lives in New York, South Dakota.  John Evans is known for Collage diary abstractions.

Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, John Evans is a collage artist working in Greenwich Village of New York City from discarded items he has collected from 1964 through 2000. When asked why he decided to quit making collages, he said that it is like knowing when to stop working on a painting---there is a sense of having come to an end.

The collage materials are random objects that caught his eye on the streets of the East Village" and include ticket stubs, cigarette butts, product labels, business cards, etc. After each of his collection days, he would create a collage from the days' gatherings, using inexpensive notebook paper, and then rubber-stamp it with the date. By the end of 2000, he had more than ten-thousand collages filling 100 notebooks that are crammed into small book cases, under his bed and in trunks. It has been written that individual pages glow like stain glass.

From these notebooks, a book has been produced titled "John Evans: Collages", and it is a pict   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2194 characters.]  Artist bio

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