Who Am I?

Evan Tomljanovich is a printmaker based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up in New Jersey, he was exposed to art museums and a wide variety of art classes at a young age. Evan also spent his time with his nose buried in books and comics, finding inspiration in the stories and images found there. The work of Maurice Sendak, Bill Watterson and many others inspired him to begin creating art. Falling in love with the creative process, Evan eventually made the decision to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art, with a focus in printmaking. Currently at MICA, Evan is seeking to continue to expand his skills as well as eventually take up a career in art teaching.

As a printmaker and artist, his creative workflow revolves around a love of process and technique. He aims to let the steps of the process speak through his work. Experimentation and play drive his process, following in the steps of action painting and other expressive branches of artmaking. Varying from image based work depicting his geometric and dynamic figures to work revolving purely around abstract images deteriorating through the print process, Evan aims to make what he loves. His work serves as reflections of his current mental state, the world around him and introspective expression into different facets of his life that he deems need dissecting.

Currently, Evan is exploring the abstraction of images whilst pulling them through different processes. His present work contains abstract landscape and texture contained in forms that emulate nostalgia. This exploration is centered around an interest in the deterioration of memory and hometowns and how our relationship with the spaces around us morph and grow over time.