ANDREA EVANS | Split Level | MELANIE’S OFFICE

February 8 - March 13, 2026

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Split Level is a large inkjet photo series of juxtaposed houses and dwellings, one on top of the other, separated by a stepped line. All of the photos were taken in and around New York City with a small point-and-shoot camera. As an artist, I use photographic images, but don’t consider myself a photographer.

I feel my interest in houses comes from a primal source, it’s one of the first things we learn to draw. I’ve long perceived houses as sculptures, probably from seeing Joel Shapiro’s simplified house sculptures when I was in art school. I was also inspired by Dan Graham’s photo series Tract Houses from 1966.

To make Split Level, I sorted through photos I had taken and used for other projects and began cropping them into upper and lower sections. The key to juxtaposing them turned out to be using an uneven line, so they interact. I used randomness to create surprising combinations that wouldn’t have been immediately obvious to me. I work in large series and randomness is often a component in my explorations of repetition, like and unlike, and harmony and dissonance.

Andrea Evans lives and works in New York City. She grew up near Detroit, Michigan and received a BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art in 1976. She has shown at Artists Space, White Columns and PPOW, and had solo exhibitions at Postmasters Gallery, NYC; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.; and a White Room at White Columns.Presently she assists in managing the art and archives of the estate of artists Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian Buczak, as well as being artist-in-residence at the townhouse of the estate.