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Around the Strait
Local landscape and cityscape paintings by Dean Evans
September 8 to October 29, 2023
Reception September 9 from 5-8pm

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Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Martinez Shoreline No. 1
8”x10”
$350.00

Dean Evans
Oil Painting
View from McEwen Rd No. 1
8”x10”
$350.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Live Oak No. 3
16”x20”
$500.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
McEwen Road No. 2
16”x20”
$500.00
DEAN EVANS GREW UP IN CLAYTON AND REMEMBERS A MORE RURAL ENVIRONMENT THAN EXISTS TODAY.
“My paintings are about trying to preserve what things used to be like, the rural quality, especially in Contra Costa County,” he says. “I’ve watched that disappear over time. Around 2008 I moved to Martinez and became familiar with the Carquinez region. It surprised me how little it had changed, compared to the rest of the Bay Area. Towns like Crockett, Port Costa, Martinez, Benicia, even Vallejo have been able to maintain that small town waterfront character. I’ve become almost obsessed with painting that, before it disappears.”
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​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Martinez Shoreline No. 5
16”x20”
$500.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Martinez Tanker No. 9
11”x14”
$400.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Snake Road No. 2
8”x10”
$350.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Snake Road No. 1
8”x10”
$350.00
IN ADDITION TO LANDSCAPES OF THE LOCAL AREA, EVANS’ OIL PAINTINGS ALSO DEPICT OLD TOWN BUILDINGS AND THE DECAYING ARTIFACTS OF INDUSTRY SUCH AS THOSE FOUND ON MARE ISLAND.
His current works are detailed and realistic, painted with a variety of palette knives. “I always wanted to be a painter. Growing up in Clayton, I liked to go out and sketch things.” In high school, he modeled his style after James Enemark, a well-known watercolor artist and teacher who painted rustic barns and rural scenes in a realistic manner. “I really got drawn into that genre. But when I went to college, no one was painting in that sort of style. In the 1980s there was a trend toward conceptual, non-objective work, and I painted in an abstract style for a while.”
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Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Briones Park No. 3
16”x20”
$500.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Briones Crest Trail No. 3
16”x20”
$500.00
Sold! September 17
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Mount Diablo from the Crest Trail No. 1
20”x24”
$600.00
Sold! October 14
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Briones Crest Trail No. 4
16”x20”
$500.00
Evans graduated from San Jose State with a BFA and MFA and began a career teaching art, eventually specializing in teaching students with disabilities. When he picked up his painting some years later, he gravitated back to his earlier, more realistic style. Now retired, he still teaches art in the Mount Diablo School District as a substitute. “I’ve lived in other places, but I’ve always come back, this is the place that has everything … near a big city with museums and restaurants, near mountains, the ocean. My wife and I enjoy hiking and being outdoors.” Click here for a PDF with more information about Dean Evans. 
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​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Mount Diablo from the Crest Trail No. 2
8”x10”
$350.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Mount Diablo from the Stewartville Trail
16”x20”
$500.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
The Benicia Bridge from Martinez
16”x20”
$500.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Mare Island No. 1
12”x16”
$450.00
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PictureDean Evans Oil Painting Benicia Waterfront No. 2 16”x20” $500.00
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Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Benicia Waterfront No. 3
16”x20”
$500.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Mare Island No. 2
11”x14”
$400.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Benicia Waterfront No. 2
16”x20”
$500.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Trailers Underneath the Carquinez Bridge
16”x20”
$500.00
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​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Changing Hills No. 2
16”x20”
$500.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Mitchell Canyon
12”x16”
$450.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Changing Hills No. 3
11”x14”
$400.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Martinez Hills No. 7
9”x12”
$375.00
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Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Blue House and Rail Cars - Crockett
16”x20”
$500.00
Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Fernandez Ranch No. 2
16”x20”
$500.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Bridge Cables
12”x16”
$450.00
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Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Car Carrier - Benicia
11”x14”
$400.00

Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Warehouse Doors - Mare Island
16”x20”
$500.00
​Dean Evans
Oil Painting
Martinez Pier No. 1
16”x20”
$500.00
Main Street Arts, 613 Main Street, Martinez, CA 94553   925-269-8049
We are open Wednesday-Saturday from 11-4 and Sunday from 10-3.  
Also, on the first Friday of each month for Martinez First Fridays from 6-9pm. 
  • Home
  • Artists
    • Dean Evans
    • Bonnie Fry
    • Jerry Hild
    • Denise Hillman
    • Nathanial Holben
    • Olga Jusidman
    • Pam McCauley
    • Samantha McNally
    • Paula Oesterling
    • Mason Roberts
    • Gwenn Spratt
    • John Tullis
  • Gallery
  • Robert Anke
  • Handle With Care, Ceramics
  • About
  • Archives
    • Connie MIllholland, Stories
    • Nancy Roberts, Carquinez Color
    • Art Makes the World Go Round
    • Delighted by Light
    • Big Sale 2024
    • A Touch of Glass
    • Guest Artist Ebbie Navas
    • Guest Artist Dave Kwinter
    • Smaller Paintings by CWA
    • Black and White
    • Guest Artist Dean Evans
    • BIG August Sale!
    • Guest Artist Lana Fly
    • Fire and Smoke
    • Guest Artist Tamsen Armstrong
    • Guest Artist Irenka Kudlicki
    • Red
    • Born to be Wild
    • From Clay to Table
    • Bay Area Studio Artists
    • Guest Artist Tamsen Armstrong
    • Go Figure
    • Martinez Arts Creates
    • And Then...There Was Clay
    • Guest Artist Tamsen Armstrong Trust the Light
    • Tiny But Mighty
    • Guest Artist Jan Weiss
    • Guest Artist Tina Pressler