Kenyssa Evans is an interdisciplinary artist from Washington, DC.  She received her BFA in Photography and Digital Arts with a minor in Curatorial Studies from Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA (‘20).

 

Evans employs a precise and dynamic visual language, weaving together imagery and materiality in a state of constant metaphorical motion. Her work is deeply influenced by her father’s documentation of family and psycho-geography, a lens through which she examines themes of Black fugitivity and spatial narratives. Drawing from diverse forms of visual documentation and storytelling, Evans uses an extrasensory color palette to transform moments of mundane reality into enigmatic and surreal compositions.

 

By deliberately removing key identifiers, she challenges traditional modes of recognition, allowing the subject and space to remain ambiguous. This approach illuminates the tensions between body and environment, public and private realms, and the interplay of projection and perception. Her incisive visual vernacular operates as a cipher, complicating the viewer’s relationship to observation, speculation, fixity, and surveillance, ultimately disrupting conventional frameworks of seeing and interpreting.

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