Janine Evers’ paintings begin with a curiosity about how things are built, how they hold together, and how they drift apart. She is drawn to the tension between form and freedom, between connection and individuality. In the studio, she constructs colorful abstractions that echo the internal logics of nature- layered, alive, sometimes unruly, but always tending toward a kind of balance.
Her imagery is invented, but rooted in observation. She looks closely at the natural world- surfaces, patterns, unexpected harmonies. At first glance, nature can seem chaotic, a tangle of growth, competition, and movement. But with time, she sees an intricate order beneath that surface. Janine’s work is a process of distilling complexity into a visual rhythm. Her paintings often take their titles from lines of poetry written by her mother, a poet and painter. Naming the work with the language of her mother’s poems is both a gesture of homage and a continuation of their dialog as artists.
Janine grew up in New York and holds a BA in Studio Art from Bard College, and studied at at School of Visual Arts.