Evan Seeling

Evan Seeling is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores wonder and perception through material, light, and reflection. Working intuitively, he allows process and transformation to guide form and meaning, revealing the tension between what is seen and what is felt. His work examines the subtleties of presence and absence—how transparency, reflection, and distortion shape the act of looking.

Seeling’s current body of work, Hiding in Plain Sight, emerges from a sustained engagement with glass as both subject and metaphor: a material that mediates visibility and conceals as much as it reveals. Influenced by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, James Turrell, Josiah McElheny, and Helen Lee, he approaches perception as a participatory event, inviting viewers to become aware of their own seeing.

He holds an MFA in Glass from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts and continues to develop work that merges craft, sculpture, and phenomenological inquiry.