Paintings

Oil Painting of Male Nude

Evan Oberholster’s nude oil paintings reframe the human figure as culturally embedded, rather than abstracted or idealised. By depicting everyday people in quiet, familiar settings, he dismantles traditional associations of nudity with eroticism or mythology, offering instead a grounded, reflective view of the body.

In his more recent work, this exploration deepens with an even greater sense of immediacy and presence. His figures remain immersed in the ordinary, yet each carries a quiet charge of emotional and cultural significance.