Born in La Mirada, CA, 1967. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Abraham & Son, 2004, sisal rope, wood, knife, Styrofoam, Celluclay

Evan Holloway’s work is shaped by his simultaneous reverence for and mistrust of modernist sculpture. His art is informed by that of twentieth-century artists such as Brancusi, Duchamp, and Rauschenberg, yet Holloway is interested in expanding this set of references to include allusions to ancient rituals, symbolic forms, and the occult.
Moreover, his work rejects accepted notions of taste and the conventional hierarchy of materials, blending simple elements associated with the world of craft with more traditional forms to create a combination of the visceral and the cerebral. His playful use of materials gives rise to sculptures in which formal and political interests intertwine, establishing a balance between a critique of modernist conventions and a carefully calibrated satirical commentary on social issues. Holloway’s sculptures combine abstract, linear, and figurative elements to create forms that are often elegant and sometimes strange, and which are simultaneously inspired by music and color theory, economics and mathematics.