Evan Holloway: ROYGBIV

David Kordansky Gallery Los Angeles · Mid-City

Exhibition on view: May 16, 2026 - Jun 20, 2026

ROYGBIV is an exhibition of new sculptures by Evan Holloway, centering on large-scale aluminum head sculptures—each outfitted with a working lightbulb in place of a nose, made in each color of the visible spectrum. Simultaneously grave and whimsical, imposing and cheerful, the heads resist fixed interpretation with their idiosyncratic nature. Shown alongside new balancing tabletop sculptures in steel and ceramic, the exhibition finds Holloway communing with his most iconic form to understand what, after twenty years, still animates it.

Artist

Evan Holloway

Evan Holloway (b. 1967, Whittier, California) has been a quietly influential artist, particularly in Los Angeles, since the late 1990s. His “Analog Counterrevolution,” a manifesto-like term he coined two decades ago, insists upon the physical experience of the object in real space as the site for meaning in an artwork. Primarily a sculptor, Holloway engages the challenges and limitations of object-making as an opportunity to synthesize compositional and conceptual rigor, physical engagement, and intuition. His artworks retain a democratic openness and accessibility even as they experiment with forms and concepts from various aesthetic and esoteric histories. Driven by such interests, the resulting work can take markedly different forms, as the “style” of the work is determined by factors extending beyond the strictly visual.