Fogue Studios & Gallery
5519 Airport Way South, Seattle, Washington
Evan Horback grew up in New Jersey and entered college pursuing a fine arts degree with an emphasis on photography and film. After two years, he opted to leave school to pursue a monastic life. He lived, studied and served for five years in several ashrams in NYC and India and later returned to art studies, graduating from State University of New York with degrees in visual arts and education.
After receiving a Masters in education, Evan taught for 10 years in NYC, Philadelphia & New Hampshire. He worked with college-aged students all the way down to pre-school. In the fall of 2013, he moved with his family to Olympia, Washington. He has focused much of his artistic energy on developing a body of work investigating cultural identification and marginality.
About this NWCS show Evan wrote "As paper-based artists, we often find joy and surprise in the materials we use. The visual mutability we experience in the collage process is a feature that is perhaps unique to our art discipline. We pair print material, photographic images, and found objects with letters, textures, and all sorts of detritus along the path of creation. We add layers (using select adhesives) and then we remove some things and then add more things until we feel like we hit it just right! Or perhaps, just "right enough"... Anyway, in so doing, we engage wholeheartedly in the complexity of overlapping modes of visual expression and I appreciate the sophistication in this group's submissions. Our collage language is as endless as our desires and I hope that this show celebrates that vastness. Three cheers to the NW College Society! May we celebrate our shared successes and continue to invite others to discover the power of old-school, cut-and-paste collage. "
I rarely begin a piece with a decisive theme in mind. Gleaning through imagery is a way to center myself & get into a creative, reflective space. There is comfort & nostalgia in browsing through old images & searching for some archetypal image or a guttural response to a found texture or striking color. That response seems more real than the image & thus becomes a catalyst for review.
The process of cutting, tearing, adding or subtracting to these discoveries complicates them and changes their history, making it meaningful & genuine to me. David Foster Wallace stated, “What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of any given instant.” My work has been a constructive effort to give some visual form to one tiny little part of the socio-cultural complexity of my marginal viewpoint.
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