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Andrea Sherrill Evans

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Andrea Sherrill Evans (she/her) is an Arizona-born, Baltimore-based artist and educator whose work explores interconnection and resilience within the natural world. Interweaving ideas and materiality, she makes drawings that explore ecological systems, seasonal cycles, and changing landscapes. Evans has a long-standing interest in historical drawing mediums and processes, which guides her use of materials ranging from silverpoint and watercolor to handmade inks, charcoal, and paper. In her recent work, she utilizes botanical materials carefully foraged in local and visited environments to fabricate drawing mediums and substrates that carry a specificity of time and place.

Evans received her BFA from Arizona State University and MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Tufts University. Her work has been exhibited at IA&A at Hillyer (Washington, DC), VisArts (Rockville, MD), C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Mother-in-Law’s (Germantown, NY), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA), and phICA (Phoenix, AZ), among others. Evans has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Studios at MASS MoCA, and was a Denbo Fellow in Papermaking at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. She is a recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Drawing, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award. In 2024 and 2025, she was a finalist for the Baker Artist Award. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and BMoreArt. Evans has been full-time faculty at 足球游戏_中国足彩网￥体育资讯 since 2015.

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Portfolio Pieces

"New Growth (Hillyer)", inks made with red deadnettle, honeysuckle leaves, dogwood blossoms, bark and charcoal made from fallen branches, dandelion leaves, mulberries, magnolia seed pods, Norway maple leaves (with modifiers of alum, soda ash, and iron), and Hakone grass lake pigment on handmade paper incorporating Hakone grass fiber, bark/bast fiber from fallen branches, abaca, and cotton, 28 drawings sized 5.5" x 8.5" to 17.5" x 17.5", 2024. All botanical materials (with the exception of abaca and cotton pulp) were gathered in the neighborhoods surrounding IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, DC. Exhibition View of "New Growth" at IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC in 2024. + Enlarge
"On Summer’s Margin", inks made with dandelion flowers, ground ivy, black walnuts, black cherry bark, cattails, honeysuckle vines & leaves, spruce cones, flowers from Jessica’s garden, fallen willow branch charcoal, and pieces of worn red brick (with color modifiers of alum, vinegar, soda ash, and iron) on handmade abaca paper incorporating cattail fiber and plant materials remaining from the ink making process, selection from a series of 24 drawings, each 8.5” x 5.5”, 2023. All botanical materials (with the exception of abaca pulp) were gathered on the grounds of Mother-in-Law’s Gallery in Germantown, NY in May 2023. Installation view from the exhibition "Par·ley", curated by Field Projects, installed at Mother-in-Law’s, Germantown, NY for Upstate Art Weekend. Top Row: documentation in late July 2023 / Bottom Row: documentation in early September 2023 after drawings were exposed to the elements for 6 weeks. + Enlarge

"New Growth (Hillyer)",

All botanical materials (with the exception of abaca and cotton pulp) were gathered in the neighborhoods surrounding IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, DC.

Artist
Andrea Sherrill Evans
Date
2024
Medium
inks made with red deadnettle, honeysuckle leaves, dogwood blossoms, bark and charcoal made from fallen branches, dandelion leaves, mulberries, magnolia seed pods, Norway maple leaves (with modifiers of alum, soda ash, and iron), and Hakone grass lake pigment on handmade paper incorporating Hakone grass fiber, bark/bast fiber from fallen branches, abaca, and cotton
Dimensions
28 drawings sized 5.5" x 8.5" to 17.5" x 17.5"

"On Summer’s Margin"

All botanical materials (with the exception of abaca pulp) were gathered on the grounds of Mother-in-Law’s Gallery in Germantown, NY in May 2023. Installation view from the exhibition "Par·ley", curated by Field Projects, installed at Mother-in-Law’s, Germantown, NY for Upstate Art Weekend. Top Row: documentation in late July 2023 / Bottom Row: documentation in early September 2023 after drawings were exposed to the elements for 6 weeks.

Artist
Andrea Sherrill Evans
Date
2023
Medium
inks made with dandelion flowers, ground ivy, black walnuts, black cherry bark, cattails, honeysuckle vines & leaves, spruce cones, flowers from Jessica’s garden, fallen willow branch charcoal, and pieces of worn red brick (with color modifiers of alum, vinegar, soda ash, and iron) on handmade abaca paper incorporating cattail fiber and plant materials remaining from the ink making process
Dimensions
selection from a series of 24 drawings, each 8.5” x 5.5”
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