Local artist exhibits work at UTSA Sept. 4-Oct. 3

(Sept. 3, 2003)--The UTSA Department of Art and Art History presents the exhibit "Philip John Evett: Recent Sculptures and Drawings" from Sept. 4 to Oct. 3 in the Arts Building Art Gallery on the 1604 Campus. A reception, free and open to the public, is from 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 4.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday-Friday, and 2-4 p.m. Sunday.

Pictured are two sculptures in the Evett exhibit: (top)"Uranus," mixed woods, 1997, and (bottom) "Beryl," mixed woods, 2003.

Evett, who works in wood, aluminum, bronze and steel, presents in the show a selection of recent wood sculptures and a variety of his drawings. Both angular and sensuous, the abstracted figures in Evett's sculptures are composed of pieces of wood fitted together with the seams showing and sanded smooth to the touch.

Evett was born in 1923 in Swanscombe, Kent, England. He studied under sculptor Scott Sutherland at Belfast College of Art and received the college's First Sculpture Award in 1947. Before he immigrated to the United States in 1954, he taught sculpture at the Cambridge College of Art.

After living in Austin, he settled in in San Antonio in 1956, where he worked as an instructor at the Art Institute. In 1960, he joined the faculty of Trinity University and taught there until his retirement in 1988. He is a founding member of the Men of Art Guild.

His artwork is included in public and private collections in Texas, across the U.S. and in Europe. He has done many one-man exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Texas, Mexico and Arkansas.