{"id":5595,"date":"2009-02-21T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2009-02-21T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T23:41:10","slug":"simon-evans-on-island-time-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Simon Evans On Island Time In NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2.png','popup','width=788,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-2-tm.jpg\" height=\"261\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Picture 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Evans<\/strong> is a former pro skateboarder who wrote for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">British skateboard mag R.a,D<\/a><\/strong>. in the early 90s. Now he is an artist with a new show which opened last night (February 20, 2009) at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Cohan Gallery<\/a><\/strong> in New York City. Here is the logic behind the show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . these days he\u2019s expressing himself in scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white-out. He uses everyday materials to create vivid stories through collages. For a new show at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea, he\u2019s tells the story of Robinson Crusoe, creating the things Caruso used to keep himself alive when stranded on a desert island. Evans said he was hoping to bring text and visual art together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The show runs through April 4, 2009, but you can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/2009-02-20_simon-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\">check it online right here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Cohan Gallery<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/news\/articles\/124551\" target=\"_blank\">WYNC.org<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Evans is a former pro skateboarder who wrote for the British skateboard mag R.a,D. in the early 90s. Now he is an artist with a new show which opened last night (February 20, 2009) at the James Cohan Gallery in New York City. Here is the logic behind the show: . . . these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}