Evan Simeone

“The Ascent”, 2026

Oil on aluminum panel, 24” x 36"

“The Triumph of One-Armed Liberty”, 2026

Oil on aluminum panel, 48” x 72"

Evan Simeone is a Brooklyn-based painter, working in oil on panel and best known for large-scale history paintings drawn from the imagery of twentieth-century American optimism. Born in 1972 in Hartford, Connecticut, Simeone studied English and Russian Literature at NYU, and poetry at Emerson College in Boston.

These are all figurative works I’ve painted this year. They are all set in tight spaces of graffiti-covered New York streets. Playful and strange, they feature figures dressed out of a 1970s Sears Catalog, striking poses (or each other) emerging from the shadows in pools of colorful light.

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"Form Equals Faction”, 2026

Oil on aluminum panel, 36” x 24