Minnie Evans: Performing Artist in New York

About Minnie Evans

Minnie Evans was an African-American self-taught artist whose practice unfolded from the 1940s through the 1980s, rooted in recurring visions and dreams she recorded from childhood onward. Working across wax and crayon, graphite, and oil, she built dense, symbolic images often associated with Southern folk and outsider traditions as well as visionary surrealism. Her work appears in New York City at Whitney Exhibitions in *The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans*, which traces the range and persistence of her imagery. The pictures favor interior logic over naturalism, guided more by revelation than observation.