About Evans Woollen
Woollen was born into a prominent Indianapolis family whose forbearers first settled there in the 1820's. He attended Hotchkiss School (Lakeview, Connecticut), and then went on to study architecture at Yale. After graduating from Yale (1952), Woollen worked in the office of architectural and artistic giant Philip Johnson (Pritzker Prize winner and architect for such projects as the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, Crystal Cathedral, and his seminal "Glass House").
After working for Johnson in Connecticut, Woollen returned to Indianapolis in 1955. He began his practice in Indianapolis with a flurry of modest, but progressive and modern residential projects. In 1963, Clowes Hall (shown at the right), designed by Woollen in collaboration with John Johansen, opened and proved to be a breakthrough in his career. In the decades that followed, Woollen, and his partners at Woollen Mozlan & Partners, Inc., developed innovative libraries, churches, government building, and performing arts venues around the country. Woollen has now returned to residential work. His latest project, finished earlier this year, is a complex of three homes on densely wooded land in Carmel.
In addition to his architectural work, Woollen has spent a great deal of time developing his skill as a painter. In 2010, A collection of twelve of Woollen's abstract paintings, many of which were being exhibited for the first time, was displayed in the Mt. Comfort Gallery of the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA). One of those painting, "Molto Allegro" is shown at the right. More of Evans Woollen's paintings can be seen on his website evanswoollen.com.
