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Evan Penny

Evan Penny (Born 1953) is active/lives in Alberta, Ontario / Canada.  Evan Penny is known for Mixed media portrait sculpture, teacher, movie effects.

Evan Penny is a sculptor, educator and movie special effects artist. He was born in Elim, South Africa and lived in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1963 his family moved to the Northwest Territories, Canada and then to Edmonton, Alberta (c.1965). He subsequently lived in Calgary, Alberta  (c. 1971-1985) and Chicago, Illinois (c. 1986 -1988). His home has been Toronto, Ontario since 1988.
 
His sculptures are made from moulded silicone, with pigment and implanted hair (1). His subjects are the human figure, busts, faces, heads and portraits. Recent works are meticulously detailed head and shoulder busts at twice life size or larger; and though they appear three-dimensional, they are actually wall-mounted reliefs; 'a merging of sculpture and photography' (2). His style is referred to as Photo Realism and Hyperrealist. However he has also stretched and distorted some of the portraits into something quite unrealistic and perhaps surrealistic. Quote: "M   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5306 characters.]  Artist bio

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