Deanna Evans Projects

Deanna Evans Projects presents a solo presentation with Brooklyn-based artist Aparna Sarkar. Aparna makes oil paintings that explore the global history of craft and pattern through the lens of her Indian diasporic experience. She often paints family textiles, treating still-life painting as visual research into each textile's regionally-specific craft history. Natural objects sometimes enter the paintings, so the patterned cloths function as undulating environments.  

In a new series of paintings, Aparna starts working from a small selection of her grandfather’s film photos of historic sites from the 50s-80s as he travelled across India. She combines these images with film stills and modern/contemporary sculptures that she encounters regularly between New York and Massachusetts, pointing to the ways that decorative forms have been exchanged and transformed through time. Aparna's work moves between the bodily and the historical, the sensory present and the inherited past. Through her expressive mark-making, she brings decoration, particularly its longstanding traditions in the East, into the conversation of geometric abstraction and gestural painting. The soft grids of textiles become an alternative to Western minimalism's rigid ones.

Deanna Evans Projects presents underrepresented artists, mainly based in New York, with a concentration on painting, fiber, sculpture and the world between. Since 2017, Deanna has put together innovative projects in intimate settings including her own apartment as well as in pop-up locations throughout NYC. DEP opened their first commercial gallery space in Bushwick, Brooklyn in 2021 and has been located in Tribeca as of 2022.

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