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CHRISTOPHER EVANS’ ‘OPEN SPACE’ AT FISCHBACH GALLERY OCT. 11

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NEW YORK CITY —  The Fischbach Gallery will present “Open Space,” an exhibition of recent paintings by Christopher Evans, opening October 11 and on view through November 10.

In 2005, after four years of living in the New York area, Evans returned to a house situated on the banks of the Russian River in Northern California’s Sonoma County. This transcontinental shift re-oriented his personal and aesthetic perspectives, bringing him fresh appreciation of once familiar vistas and inspiration to begin a new series of landscape paintings.

Away from New York and influenced by his rural environment, Evans’s paintings primarily focus on the purely natural California landscapes surrounding him. These lands, existing beyond the edges of cities, towns and farmland in boundary zones are referred to as “open space.”

“I have been working largely in response to the experience of seeing wide expanses of land and sky,” Evans said recently. “My challenge and joy in landscape painting is to capture sensations of color and light. I love seeing the way light fills the sky with certain shades of blue, how it tints the whiteness of clouds with color at different times of day, falls upon the forms of trees, rolls over the hillsides, and reflects on water.”

The Fischbach Gallery is between 24th and 25th Streets at 210 Eleventh Avenue. For information, 212-759-2345 or www.fischbachgallery.com.