Stephen W. Evans is an artist simultaneously preoccupied with the absurd and the existential. Evans’ paintings are amalgamations of sources gathered from art history, literature, cinema, and invented imagery, all favoring the atmospheric, as well as a benign sense of danger. His work is at once pastoral and psychological, like a scene from The Twilight Zone, culminating in self-reflection, and effectively serving as a form of exorcism. Evans was born and raised in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania, where he received a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of the Arts in 2010, and in 2017, he received an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Evans currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife, Lauren Frances Evans, and their two daughters, Agnes and Edie, and is a preparator and art handler for the Birmingham Museum of Art.