Evan Whale (b. 1987) is an LA-based artist working in experimental photography and painting. Employing his process as an investigative tool, Whale makes work where the languages of photography and painting overlap. He treats the photographic surface as a means of recording light, color, image, chemical alteration, or primed canvas, ready to record a physical mark. “To me the physical print is more a material than it is an image. It’s the starting point—a bridging of subject and object. Controlled destructive gestures to the surface bring out color and form that speak to the project at hand. It’s a literal tearing through photographed reality, revealing things that were otherwise invisible.”

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