Kat Evans named Westport Book Shop’s February Artist

The Westport Book Shop is pleased to welcome  artist Kat Evans as guest exhibitor for the month of February at the Book Shop’s Drew  Friedman Art Place. 

Kat is exhibiting three of her recent luminous Color Field paintings — a 48”x36”  painting, and two 20”x20” collages of painted canvas cutouts affixed to a painted canvas  base. 

Kat’s vibrant, large-scale paintings are a celebration of the expressive possibilities of  color. Inspired by Josef Albers and the Color Field Movement, Kat Evans creates vibrant  paintings with luminous hues and raucous color. Using bold brush strokes and often collage  effects, she explores the interplay of color and texture to evoke an emotional response in  each composition. Her artwork has been shown in numerous juried solo and group  exhibitions, and her paintings can be found in collections throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan  and Mexico. Kat is a member of the Artists Collective of Westport, as well as the Rowayton  Arts Center and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists.  

Kat Evans’ artwork will be on exhibit at the Book Shop through February 28, 2023. All  artwork on display is available for purchase. To see more of Kat’s work, visit her website: www.kevansart.com 

Westport Book Shop, a nonprofit used book store, is downtown Westport’s only source  for gently used and antiquarian books, vintage vinyl records, CDs, DVDs and audio books. It  is located at 23 Jesup Road, right across Jesup Green from the Westport Library. 

The Book Shop’s “Drew Friedman Art Place” is an area of the store dedicated to  exhibiting the work of community artists year-round, on a rotating basis. Miggs Burroughs, a  Trustee of the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, and a founding member of The Artists  

Collective of Westport, is curating these exhibits, which change monthly. The art exhibit is open to the public during the Book Shop’s business hours: Sundays  and Mondays from Noon to 5 p.m., and Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.     

Westport Book Shop, and the Westport Library Book Sales, are operated by Westport  Book Sale Ventures, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit enterprise with the dual social mission to  provide meaningful employment for adults with disabilities, while raising support for The  Westport Library, through used book sales. In addition to the nonprofit Westport Book Shop,  gently used books are also offered for sale online on the company’s website  www.westportbooksaleventures.org/shop and through our eBay store at www.ebay.com/str/ westportbooksalesct, as well as at periodic large book sale events (the next book sale event is  scheduled for May 5 through 8, 2023, inside the Westport Library). For more information, or  to make a charitable donation, please visit our website at www.westportbooksaleventures.org