Ned Evans: Liquid Light
May 8 — July 11, 202
Opening Reception: May 8th, 5:30 -7:30

RAM is pleased to present Liquid Light, our first solo presentation with artist Ned Evans. Liquid Light captures the essence of Ned Evans’ work, where light is treated as fluid, shifting, and inseparable from water. Shaped by decades of looking, both at the California coast and from within it, his paintings and resin works build light through layered, aqueous processes that shimmer and distort. In Evans's work, light becomes a way of holding experience in motion, where perception itself offers a quiet form of refuge.

Ned Evans (b. 1950) is a painter and lifelong surfer based in Venice. He received his BFA and MFA from the University of California, Irvine in the 1970s, where he studied alongside artists such as Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, Larry Bell, and Craig Kauffman during a formative period in California’s art history.

Aligned with the ethos of the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, Evans merges the materials and sensibilities of coastal life with those of the studio, contributing to an aesthetic now considered distinctly Californian. His paintings, drawings, and resin sculptures have been exhibited at institutions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, and the Bakersfield Museum of Art.