“A painting can be approached empirically. It contains information and produces sensation. The phenomenon of looking at paintings is just seeing colour and shape, of drawing you in to look at a surface. That in itself is a statement in painting.”
— Ric Evans
For the past thirty years Ric Evans has worked in the genre of modernist painting known as geometric abstraction. With intoxicating hits of colour, his forms appear to float and overlap in a network of positive and negative space punctuated by the drama of texture. These paintings invite the viewer in for an experience unlike our normal perceptual encounters (where the seeing and naming of objects is automatic). Evans channels the symbolic role of geometry in a personal lexicon of colour and form. His paintings, like music, contain the pleasure of their material’s potential and the ability to evoke sensations through a dynamic optical experience.
