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Accessable Art Portfolio- Evan Gruzis

In Accessable Art Portfolio on May 3, 2011 at 12:52 pm

“Angel of Fresh”

Evan Gruzis  (Born: 1979 in Milawaukee, Wisconsin, USA). Lives and works in New York. Gruzis has a BFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin Madison and MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College in NYC.

Evan Gruzis is one of the famous downtown Brooklyn –artist in New York and is a part of the Whitney Museum of American Art Collection, and the Horts Family Collection.

He makes primarily works on paper, but also paintings and installations. His works describes “the complementary nature of the Other and the Mainstream”, and has a darkly humored and romantic, but, yet absurd touch, and are deceptively photo-like.  Evan Gruzis created a New Wave Noir world through his complexly layered ink paintings.

Evan Gruzis, “Cosmic Wayfarer No. 3, Ink on  paper, 28 1/8 x 20 1/5 inches.

Evan Gruzis, “ConsiderMyMind Blown”,  No.3, ink on paper , 2008

Evan Gruzis, “Homage To Patrick Nagel”, 76×102 cm , oil on canvas, 2005

Evan Gruzis,”Blinders” , 30 x 30 x 100 cm, 2009

Deitch Projects, NYC

DUVE Berlin, Berlin

SAKS, Geneva

AMP, Athens

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