Photographs by Dick Evans
SF photographer to talk at di Rosa
May 9, 2018
Napa Valley Register
“The Mission,” a documentary photography book, explores the soul of the diversity and color of San Francisco’s Mission District through its quintessential art form, the community murals that allow the walls and streets to tell their own story of heritage and transformation. The 162-page book contains 178 photographs.
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Murals for Social Change
Bay Area Mural Projects Support Nonviolence and Other Causes
by Mira Veda, The Battery Candy contributor
Winter 2017
Dick Evans' politically charged book has a unique cultural perspective on the Mission's murals and their visual social history of Latin American culture in the area. In one interview with the San Jose Mercury News, he described the Mission District as "a microcosm of all the pressures in the Bay Area." "The murals of the Mission put the issues debated daily around the district and buried in social media directly in your face - in larger-than-life acrylic paint and striking imagery. This includes the themes of LGTBQ discrimination, police brutality, aggressive immigration enforcement, and the economic pain of evictions and gentrification," Evans told us.
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A Man on a Mission
The New Fillmore, posted on October 2, 2017
FIRST PERSON | DICK EVANS
Santana — born in Jalisco, Mexico, but raised in the city’s Mission District — also has a strong connection to the Fillmore neighborhood. He got his first big break from Bill Graham at the Fillmore in 1966. For a time his studio was on Fillmore next door to the Clay Theatre. Those early years in the Fillmore launched him to international fame and iconic status that merits his bigger-than-life portrait by muralist Mel Waters at 19th and Mission Streets, only four blocks from where Santana attended high school.
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Dick Evans signs books at The Mission book launch party on April 13, 2017
Paying homage to the Mission District’s glorious murals
April 19, 2017
by Leah Garchik, SF Chronicle Features Columnist
Residents, friends and admirers of the Mission District gathered at the well-renovated Grand Theater on Mission Street on Thursday night, April 13, to celebrate the publication of Dick Evans’ new book, “The Mission.” As described by John McMurtrie in a recent books section, Evans, a freelance photographer, self-published “San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition,” about four years ago. This book, on which he collaborated with the Precita Eyes Muralists Association, is published by Heyday, which focuses on California subjects.
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San Francisco’s colorful Mission district explored in gorgeous imagery
April 17, 2017
by Georgia Rowe, Mercury News Correspondent
With its pages teeming with vibrant color, Richard Evans’ new book on the Mission District illuminates the heart, soul, and diversity of one of San Francisco’s essential neighborhoods. Yet “The Mission” (Heyday, $30, 176 pages) is more than an attractive coffee table book. In 178 full color photos, Evans captures the Mission as a cultural hub, with the murals, mercados, restaurants, music and public events such as Carnivale brilliantly portrayed.
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‘The Mission’ by Dick Evans
April 6, 2017
by John McMurtrie, SF Chronicle Book Editor
The story of the Mission is the story of America.
The San Francisco district — once home to the Yelamu tribe of the Ohlone, the Native American people — has long been a haven for immigrants looking for a better life. People from Germany, Poland, Ireland, Italy and, more recently, Mexico and Central America, have all made it their neighborhood, adding to the city’s wealth of diversity.
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New Book Captures the Murals, and Cultural Collisions, of the Mission
March 23, 2017
Sarah Burke, KQED Contributor
When Carlos Gonzalez, a San Francisco Mission native and muralist, first heard that a man named Dick Evans wanted to make a photography book about murals in the Mission, he wasn’t immediately on board. “I’ve been through experiences before where people come, pick our brains, and then kind of use and abuse us and misrepresent what we say,” says Gonzalez, “so I was a little skeptical.” Four years later, though, Gonzalez couldn’t be happier with Mission, Evans’ finished product recently released by Heyday Books.
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Upcoming ‘Universal Languages’ art exhibition ‘celebrates our world of many cultures’
October 30, 2021
Tarsa Weikert, News Contributor
A new art exhibit is coming to the Little Gallery inside Kidder Hall at Oregon State University from Nov. 1 to Dec. 17 that will represent the universal aspects of humans.
The exhibition, which is called “Universal Languages—Paint, Print and Photography,” will be open to visitors Monday through Friday from 8 to 5 p.m. starting Nov. 1.
The Little Gallery, which is part of the School of Languages, Culture and Society at OSU, features work from Dick Evans, senior international business advisor and director of various companies, and Gretchen Evans, who has been an artist for over 50 years.
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