10/12/2026
LE CHANT
In Le Chant, John Evans explores a connection to something primordial, a visual language that predates written history. Scattered across the painting are faint, paw-like marks that recall the animal tracks and painted symbols found in the prehistoric caves of Lascaux, France. These mysterious impressions suggest an instinctive human desire to record and make sense of the natural world.
The word primordial refers to something belonging to the earliest stages of existence, something elemental, ancient, or original. For Evans, these marks connect the contemporary landscape to a much older experience of nature of the moon, of the sun burning through the mist, it is one rooted in memory, instinct, and our earliest forms of expression.
Even the title, Le Chant, French for “The Song,” suggests a kind of ancient rhythm, as though the painting carries an echo of something that has always been with us.
View his solo show opening this Thursday, Oct. 15th
