The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
About This Event
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans is an exhibition of works by African-American artist Minnie Evans at Whitney Exhibitions. Known for imagery drawn from lifelong visions and dreams, Evans worked from the 1940s to the 1980s in media from wax and crayon to oils and graphite and is discussed within southern folk, outsider, surrealist, and visionary art contexts.
About The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
At Whitney Exhibitions, *The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans* surveys the work of African-American artist Minnie Evans, whose images grew out of recurring dreams and private visions. Spanning the 1940s through the 1980s, the show tracks her shifting materials, from wax and crayon to graphite and oil, while keeping faith with an internal iconography of faces, plants, and invented cosmologies. For New York audiences, it reads as a corrective to the city’s canon, placing a self-taught Southern modernist in an institution that long centered different narratives. The work’s density can feel devotional, as if drawing were a daily practice of translation.
About the Artist
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.