DVF Presents Evan Sebastian Lagache’s Solo Exhibition, “Elemental Energy”
DVF Presents Evan Sebastian Lagache’s Solo Exhibition, “Elemental Energy”
Published by Dave
By: Siobhan Fenton for SocialNetwork.com
Photos by William Perez Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Curated by Debbie Dickinson at DVF SoHo store 135 Wooster St., NY, NY 10012 Store Manager, Juan Carlos Cedeno
Diane Von Furstenberg invited her audience and guests to see an exhibit of pure expression of color against her exquisite walls of white canvas in her iconic, DVF SoHo store. It was a buzz of anticipant art collectors, models, actresses, and enthusiasts in support of painter, Evan Sebastian Lagache with his Solo Exhibition, “Elemental Energy.” The vibrant use of color against his large canvases complemented Diane Von Furstenberg’s Spring/Summer collection with pure perfection. Colors included bright crimsons, marigold, palm green, and Mykonos blue, with inviting silk florals, stripes, geometric, and asymmetrical patterns.
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$598.00 https://www.dvf.com/the-dvf-gia-dress/11861DVF.html About the Artist
Evan Sebastian Lagache got his start as an artist when he was leaving high school. In his senior year, Evan picked up a paintbrush for the first time and this was just the beginning. He started painting because his English teacher assigned a project to represent the book, Siddhartha by German Nobel Prize-winner, Hermann Hesse. “They wanted us to represent the book in a way we wanted to,” Evan explained. He painted the Buddha illustrated in the forest meditating under a tree. I learned this book exhibited a unique parallelism to Evan’s journey as an artist. Siddhartha is a German novel about the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man by the name of Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. After finishing this project, Evan said,
“I sat there and painted all night and I finished in one night and it was an incredible feeling of accomplishment and self validation. It felt like I achieved something without actually having to prove myself to anyone. It was the most satisfaction I had gotten from anything in a long time.”
It was at this time when Evan began showing a little more passion in painting, going to Washington Square Park with friends. He painted his big pieces on large canvas and began going to paint in the park everyday. It was on this day, Evan knew the public took an interest in his work and he could pay for his art supplies with the proceeds. This ordinary day of painting in the park with friends turned into a game changer for Evan’s career. Evan started to become approached by art collectors to purchase his pieces. In an introspective reflection, Evan said, “I learned a lot about human interaction and it opened me up to a bigger city.”
