Never Better Than Later
Rebecca Camacho Presents is pleased to announce Never Better Than Later , a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist duo Simon Evans & Sarah Lannan. Simon Evans self-taught artistic practice began in San Francisco in the late 1990’s, with his first public exhibition in 2002 at the legendary Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. Creating dense text-based collages saturated with short, poetic phrases, drawings, and images often created from the detritus of everyday life both inside and outside of the studio, larger national and international recognition quickly followed, including the SFMOMA SECA Art Award in 2004. A couple since 2006, Evans and Lannan left San Francisco for Berlin shortly after meeting. Lannan, also a self-taught artist, and Evans began collaborating closely on Evans’ highly detailed, labor-intensive work, and the pair soon integrated their practices. Exhibiting in the city for the first time in over two decades, Evans and Lannan’s Never Better Than Later is a love letter to San Francisco, the place where both their creative and personal histories began. Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan have exhibited extensively, both in the US and internationally. Significant solo museum exhibitions include Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2013); Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg (2012); Aspen Art Museum, CO (2005); and White Columns, New York (2005). Evans and Lannan were featured in the 12th International Istanbul Biennial in Turkey and the 27th São Paulo Biennial in Brazil. The artists’ work has also been included in international group exhibitions at the Museum Van De Geest, NL; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Jewish Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, the Netherlands ; Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; and the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany. Work by Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan is included in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami; Honolulu Museum of Art, HI; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan currently live and work in Brooklyn, NY.
