DENNIS EVANS

At the Walking and Art residency, Dennis Evans plans to extend his interest with high altitude light phenomena and its effects on reading form.  Expanding on his photo based practice; he will produce a new body of work that combines photographs and videos from previous trips as well as new images taken from the Banff area and the Rockies.  He will create three short videos from his collected data during the residency and his library of previous documentation.  The new works will be projected on symbolic three-dimensional objects made of clay.

Artist biography: Dennis Evans studied sculpture and drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art.  In 1968 he received his Bachelor of Fine Art and in 1971 his Master in Fine Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally since 1985 with his most recent show at the Mysteria Gallery in Regina, 2007.  In 2006, Mr. Evan’s received the Saskatchewan Arts Board Visual Arts Individual and was a recipient of the Humanities Research Institute research award, President’s Fund/SSHRC General Research Grant and the Faculty of Fine Arts Research Fund award. In the summer of 2006 he represented Canada at the international group exhibition titled ARTCAMP 2006 Mongolia and is currently the Head of the sculpture program at the University of Regina, SK.