NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan Gallery presents Shitty Heaven, the second solo exhibition by Simon Evans, on view May 12th through June 11th, 2011. Evans meticulously assembles prosaic materials, such as scraps of paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings and correction fluid into diagrams, maps, flowcharts and diary entries that obsessively catalogue the fragments of a life. In 12 new text-based drawings, weavings and embroideries, the artist shares his confessional, idiosyncratic and wickedly humorous observations. The exhibition’s title work, Shitty Heaven, envisions the other world as a planned suburban community, complete with its Gym, Clinic, Gallery and Church. At the center of this floor plan is the “Abyss of Excessive Enjoy-