Evan Abrahamson
Exhibiting at Studio D
Paintings
Evan Abrahamson
1378 Dunsmore Drive
Waconia, MN 55387
612-346-3082
charles.abrahamson@gmail.com
paintingsbyevan.com
Instagram: @evan.c.abrahamson
Evan Abrahamson’s practice inhabits the unstable ground between intention and chance, where each mark becomes both a decision and a surrender. His paintings are less concerned with resolving form than with tracing the moment of its emergence — and its inevitable dissolution. This engagement with impermanence is not merely thematic, but embedded in the very structure of his process, where control and chance negotiate the fragile terms of their coexistence.
Educated at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Abrahamson honed a technical precision that operates not as an end in itself, but as a counterpoint to the material’s unruly agency. His early recognition, including the Presidential Scholarship, signaled not only his skill but his capacity to hold in tension the contradictory demands of craft and concept, permanence and erasure.
This rigor has placed his work within leading contemporary exhibition contexts, including Meyer Gallery (Santa Fe, NM), Arcadia Contemporary (New York, NY), Mockingbird Gallery (Bend, OR), and Principle Gallery (Alexandria, VA) — galleries known for their curatorial focus on conceptually driven, materially rigorous painting.
Each work is shaped through the interplay of disciplined technique and the embrace of chance, resulting in surfaces that hold both clarity and ambiguity. These are not merely aesthetic objects, but meditative spaces — visual inquiries into what can be known, what must be released, and what exists only in the moment of transition.
Collected in both private and public contexts, Abrahamson’s work resonates for its quiet eloquence, conceptual rigor, and its capacity to invite viewers into sustained contemplation of life’s most transient and uncertain states.