Evan Hecox is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. His work for the past two decades has included drawing, painting and printmaking as well as graphic design and illustration. Media of the work extends from small drawings to gallery installations and large wall murals. Much of his work takes inspiration from travel with imagery that ranges from major cities to remote desert scenes all of which is united by a keen eye for the mood and feeling of a particular place and moment in time. The work often reveals an underlying beauty locked within subject matter that would normally be overlooked or regarded as ugly. Mundane objects like bicycles, power lines or grocery carts take on new life as intricate line drawings. Urban scenes are filtered with an eye for abstraction, reducing down the scenes into simple shapes and colors, at times distilled to pure abstract works or typographic interpretations of the world he sees. Exploring human existence both from how we affect our environment and also how it affects us. His view of the world explores the constant, organic change that occurs both in cities and in the natural world. He has shown his work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States as well as the Europe, Australia and Japan and Hong Kong.
His work in the realm of design has references from Japanese prints, European poster design, 1960’s era illustration, Bauhaus typography and folk art. For more than twenty years he has created graphics for the brand Chocolate Skateboards, with hundreds of his designs in use on streets and skateparks as well as many of his boards hung as artwork in private homes. Projects also include various design/illustration projects for clients such as Herschel, Vans, Yardbird, Burton Snowboards, Monster Children, Nike, Volkswagen and the State of Colorado.
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Selected solo exhibitions
2019: “Future Green” Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2017: “The Long Way” Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, USA
2015: “Terrain” Mather Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015: “Far” Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, USA
2014: “Paradox” Superordinary, Denver, USA
2012: “The Dark Island” Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, USA
2011: “Borough & Lane” Stolen Space, London, UK
2009: “Strange Nature” The Lazy Dog, Paris, France
2008 “DF” Blackmarket Gallery, Culver City, California
2006: Colorado Biennale, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
2006: Monster Children Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002: “Colfax Avenue Project” Andenken Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA
2001: Houston Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000: Houston Gallery, Seattle, USA
Selected group exhibitions
2020: Legalize Humanity benefit show at Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
2019: Art on Paper exhibition / fair New York with Paradigm Gallery
2014: “The Provocateurs” curated by Shepard Fairey, presented by Art Alliance, Chicago, USA
2012: Thomas Campbell with guest artists Ed Templeton and Evan Hecox, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004: Beautiful Losers, traveling museum exhibition, various locations
2002: Session the Bowl, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Selected projects
2109: The Jaunt, trip to Guatemala and subsequent print edition
2018: Vans Pro Tour: two solo art exhibitions in Vancouver, Canada and Malmo, Sweden and original artwork as trophies for the Vans Pro Tour skateboard contest.
2018: Mural commission: 25’ x 45’ mural at the Dairy Block project, Denver, Colorado.
2017: Mural commission: 20’ x 60’ mural on Larimer Street for the Crush mural festival, Denver, Colorado
“Chocolate 20” International, multi-city tour of skateboard graphics and ephemera to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Chocolate Skateboards.
2014: Curator of “Folklore” group exhibition at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York
Selected Lectures
2019: Grafixx Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
2012: Offset, Dublin, Ireland
Selected Publications
The Jaunt, vol 2 “Explore the creative process of artists traveling the world” Chemistry Publishing, 2019
Juxtapoz Magazine, featured cover artist, August 2012
Urban Abstract, The Art of Evan Hecox, 2008
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, 2004
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