Open Air: Artist Talk with Trevor Anderson-Evans

Open Air is a monthly series of intimate conversations with Black artists across the globe, hosted by the Gantt. The May installment features artist Trevor Anderson‑Evans, whose work investigates the complexity of color theory through shapes and textures informed by science fiction, architecture, fashion, and philosophy.

This program will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.

Trevor Anderson-Evans (b. 1995, Hoboken, NJ) is a painter and multidisciplinary artist who works between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Colombia, South America. His practice spans acrylic, oil, collage, cut canvas, watercolor, and mixed media. He incorporates found textiles, paper, and gesture-based mark-making, including basketball dribble patterns, to build layered surfaces that examine the lived realities of Black identity across different regions and cultures. Anderson-Evans brings painting into conversation with sculptural form, video, and fashion, creating compositions that shift between image and object while moving between concealment and revelation.His influences include Sam Gilliam, Mark Bradford, Juan Logan, and Thornton Dial, along with the imaginative and future-oriented lens of Afrofuturism. Architecture and design shape the structural logic of his work, which considers how narratives are assembled, eroded, and reconstructed over time. His recent projects expand into shaped canvases and installation-based forms that echo the irregular borders of states, nations, and cultural histories. Through this evolving practice, Anderson-Evans invites viewers to reflect on how history and perception meet at the surface of a painting and how the visible and invisible coexist within it.

Dexter Wimberly is an American curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, KOKI Arts in Tokyo, Bode Projects in Berlin, and The Third Line in Dubai. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum; and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art, and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the online education platform, CreativeStudy.