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November 13 - December 23, 2016Info
1599 Tennessee Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Google Map »Reception
November 18, 2016 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
McNAIR EVANS Coastliner 04008, 2013 from In Search of Great Men Archival Pigment Print, 2016
EUQINOMprojects is proud to announce its representation of McNair Evans with a solo exhibition Field Sketches, a selection of large landscapes made traveling cross-country by train. These photographs comprise an important part of his ongoing series, In Search of Great Men, an epic project for which he was recently named a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. In Search of Great Men combines original photography with passenger accounts to explore contemporary American culture through the status of our passenger rail system and those currently traveling by train. For over three years, Evans engaged fellow passengers, recorded their stories, and photographed landscapes during biannual two-week Amtrak trips. In Field Sketches Evans exhibits winter landscapes made from the passing train. They embody a wonderful imperfection of process, a search for connection, and the inherent longing of fleeting interactions. We find frozen rivers, a distant port, and tangled undergrowth shrouded in winter. Each image carefully balances a desire to belong and the possibility of hope fulfilled. It is testament to Evans’ sensibilities as a photographer that his photographs of the unremarkable are never banal. His compositional clarity, mastery of light and shadow, and the unabashed emotion that he injects into his work allow mundane subjects to be transported; pushed beyond the everyday. McNair Evans grew up in a small farming town in North Carolina and became interested in photography while studying cultural anthropology at Davidson College in North Carolina. Evans is a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2015 PDN 30 Award recipient, and 2014 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award recipients. In 2013 Evans was a Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA Artist-In-Residence as well as the recipient of Slow Exposure’s Paul Conlan Prize. His first monograph, Confessions for a Son, (Owl & Tiger Books, 2014) sold out within months. Evans’ work has been featured in many publications including Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Financial Times, and on the cover of William Faulkner’s Flags in the Dust. His photographs are held in public and private collections including those of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Sir Elton John Photography Collection. Over one hundred photographs from In Search of Great Men are currently on exhibit at the San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries: City Hall through December 16, 2016.