Dick Evans

Dick Evans was born in the "Land of Enchantment," New Mexico, USA. Having grown up in a rural farming community in the panhandle of Texas, he had no exposure at all to art until he started college. Fortunately he was required to take drawing and design courses as he started his supposed major of architecture. He soon realized architecture was not right for him, but also that he loved ART! As he progressed through an advertising art program at Texas Tech, he realized he was more interested in the Fine Arts, and transferred to a rich art program at the University of Utah, where he obtained a BFA in Drawing and Painting, and went on to obtain an MFA in Ceramics and Sculpture.

After completing college, Evans began a university teaching career. His first position was back at the university where he began as a student, Texas Tech. He taught courses in ceramics, drawing, and design. At the age of twenty-nine he was granted tenure. Uneasy about settling into one area so early in life he resigned within the month and set out on his own with wife and two children, establishing studios in Northern New Mexico in which he produced sculpture and ceramics. After a year he realized how much he missed teaching and returned to the unive...

EDUCATION

1966 MFA University of Utah
1964 BFA University of Utah
1959-1963 Texas Tech University

TEACHING

Texas Tech University, 1966-1970
University of Tennessee, 1971-1972
University of New Mexico, 1972-1975
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1975-1987

ASSOCIATE DEAN

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Fine Arts, 1981-1983

2015 Group Show, Colors of the Southwest, Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center, Pueblo, CO
2014 Group Show, The Art of Santa Fe, The Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
2013 Two Person Show, The Howell Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Group Show, 25th Anniversary, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012 Group Show, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Solo Show, Indications, Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Solo Show, Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Solo Show, Shadid Fine Art, Edmond, OK
2008 Solo Show, Internal Edge, Joyce Robins Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Solo Show, Shadid Fine Art, Edmond, OK
Group Show, Land of Color and Excitement, Lakeview Museum of Arts
And Sciences, Peoria, IL (Catalog published)
2007 Solo Show, Shadid Fine Art, Edmond, OK
Invitational GroupTraveling Show, Out West, the Great American Landscape, Traveling through Seven Major Cities in China (Catalog published)
2006 Solo Show, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Solo Show, Close Encounters, Joyce Robins Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Solo Show, Shadid Fine Art, Edmond, OK
2005 Solo Show, Silhouettes and Passages, Joyce Robins Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Group show, At Home in the Sun, Joyce Robins Gallery, ...