about

Evan Washington Clarke Nabrit is an artist and designer, based in West Philadelphia. His work mostly lampoons American power, typically involves attenuated figure/ground relationships, and is informed by a longstanding collage practice; drawing largely from commercial and fashion photography, cartoons, and history painting. His work has been shown at Napoleon (Pink Noise) in Philadelphia, the Contemporary Art Center in Northampton, MA, and DesignFesta vol.s 4 & 6 at Tokyo BigSite in Yokohama, Japan; in private residence on Rue Galand in Paris, at Denise Bibro in Chelsea, at Fran Josef Kai 3 in Vienna and the Whitney Houston Biennale at Julius Caesar, in Chicago.

A classically trained painter and draftsman, EWCN was homeschooled, and in the mid 1990s entered into studio apprenticeship with Roman Johnson (1917-2005), at age 14. Dr. Johnson, who himself was apprentice to Emerson Burkhart (1905 – 1969), after Charles Hawthorne (1872 -1930), taught Nabrit to, ‘build form through spots of color’, using a palette knife.

EWCN earned his BA cum laude from Amherst College in 2006, where he was named an Associates of Fine Arts Fellow by the College, in conjunction with the Mead Art Museum, in 2003. He held residences at the Chautauqua Institution in 2005, and the Rome Art Program in 2011.

A 2012 – 14 Heidelberg Fellow, and Dean’s Diversity Scholar, EWCN received his interdisciplinary MFA and certificate in Interactive and Time-Based Media from the Weitzman School of Design in 2014, where he served as a 2013 Graduate Lecture Fellow with the ICA Philadelphia, as well as 2013 Teaching Fellow in the department of Visual Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.