Nocturne II, 1980
Etching, 17" x 23 1/2"
Evan Summer was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1948. He earned a B.S. in chemistry from the State University of New York at Cortland in 1970, a B.F.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1973, and an M.F.A. in printmaking from Yale University in 1975. Summer has taught at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. His work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress, and is included in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Museum of American Art. Summer's depictions of piled objects and jumbled environments, abstractions of light and dark, are vehicles for formal explorations of pictorial space, volume, and texture.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.