Evan Summer, Lines, landscapes and shapes

We invite you to the opening and a lecture, which will take place on April 15 at 1:00 PM.

Evan Summer was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. His college education began at SUNY College at Cortland where he received his BS in Chemistry. He went on to study printmaking and painting at SUNY Buffalo where he had the opportunity to study with Harvey Breverman and Seymour Drumlevitch. In 1975 he received his MFA in Printmaking at Yale University, where he studied with Gabor Peterdi and Richard Ziemann.

Science has had a strong influence on his artwork from the use of uncommon materials in printmaking to mathematical perspective and geometry. He works primarily in printmaking, especially etching and collagraph making.

Teaching has been an important part of his career. In 2019 Evan retired from Kutztown University where he taught printmaking since 1984. He received Kutztown’s two highest awards, the Chambliss Award for research and the Wiesenberger Award for excellence in teaching.

For many years he has exhibited his work in print competitions around the world. His prints have been shown in more than 300 exhibitions including competitive exhibitions in Krakow, Taipei, Beijing, Tokyo, Guanlan, Fredrikstad and numerous other locations in the United States, UK, Russia, Italy and Bulgaria.

Evan has had many solo exhibitions including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (1999-2000), the Reading Public Museum (Reading, PA in 2001 and 2005-06), the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice (2007), the East Area Gallery of the Guanlan International Print Workshop in Guanlan, China in 2010, a 2018 solo exhibition at the China Printmaking Museum also in Guanlan, and Il Bisonte in Florence, Italy (2023). He’s also had numerous overseas residencies in both Italy and China.

His work is in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the China Printmaking Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.