Visual Art – Cleveland

Jordan Arnell Evans (born April 28, 1990) is an American artist, illustrator, graphic designer, painter, videographer, and founder of Tenraxs Clothing started in Sandusky, OH. Jordan is most known for the artwork that he put together for the start of the 2016 NBA season. Jordan has designed mostly for the local scenes, but has also worked with nationally known recording artist and professional athletes like The NBA, Carlos Dunlap, The NFL, Drake, LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Iman Shumpert, Tristan Thompson, Ray Jr., Toure Neblett, Revolt TV, Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club, MGK, Espn Sport Analysts, Shy Glizzy, Jazzy Pha, Berner (Taylor Gang), Trinidad James, Wiz Khalifa, Wave Chapelle, Meek Mill, Love & Hip Hop Reality Star Erica Dixon, Rocko, Fabolous, and many more. While growing up though Jordan has faced many obstacles to reach all of his goals he had set for himself. Beginning with, being cut his Jr. year from the high school basketball team, too; figuring out his real purpose in life. Yet, he managed to keep striving for greatness. After graduating high school Jordan followed his passion and went off to The School Of Advertising Art in Kettering, OH. While being in school he was focused and determined to graduate, but along the way, he picked up another talent and started producing songs with a music program called "Garageband". He began practicing day by day and eventually went back home to show his friends which they later formed a local rap group named "Mulah Gangg." After leaving school in the summer of 2009, he and his friends began recording and putting songs together every day and eventually grew a local buzz around the city and surrounding areas. By 2013 they had put out 3 official music videos, 4 mixtapes and a radio appearance on 95.7 FM with DJ Koolaide of Cincinnati, OH. After working all those years on music and trying to figure things out leading to one last cohesive effort at putting out a mixtape in the fall of 2013, the group eventually separated and went different ways. Jordan then packed up from Sandusky and moved to Cleveland with the help of his parents. Still trying to figure out the next step in life Jordan began to brainstorm and started designing again which spawned his initial passion back in college. While keeping a close bond with a couple group members and Jordan came up with a clothing line called "TENRAXS." As months went by, learning steps every day in the clothing business, Jordan and his good friend Dashun took a trip to the "City of Dreams" New York, where he became more inspired by seeing all the fashionable things and other art forms. After leaving New York, things changed and he began to take the clothing line more serious and began to really get creative with his work. As his creative skills started to advance it drastically started catching people's attention. In August of 2014, Jordan put together an art piece for Lebron James & his four friends (Dru Joyce, Willie McGee, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton) and a week later he ended up meeting them after posting the picture up on Instagram. Soon after that things took off and he began to get recognized, leading towards opportunities with jobs & celebrities like Ray Jr., Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club, Espn Sport Analysts, Shy Glizzy, Jazzy Pha, Berner (Taylor Gang), Trinidad James, Wiz Khalifa, Wave Chapelle, Rocko, Fabolous, and many more. After receiving recognition from those celebrities, Jordan woke up with a big surprise when Grammy-nominated Rick Ross posted his artwork on his official Instagram page which received over 55,000 plus likes to this day. This was a big motivation booster for him and not only that, it brought in a long list of customers who wanted his work. A month later Machine Gun Kelly posted his work up, Meek Mill, D'Angelo Russell, and other famous people. To this day, Jordan(26) is still perfecting his work and is still striving for greatness to become a successful entrepreneur in the game. At the end of 2015, Jordan was featured on Complex Magazine for his artwork, did a project with Spiff Tv (Rick Ross A&R) and started a few freelance projects within the celebrities among the industry. In October 2016, Jordan was notified by Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving that he wanted to purchase his personalized art piece of him from Jordan and a week later the NBA put another one of his art pieces on their Instagram page. In the month of January 2017, Jordan will be featured in his hometown newspaper (The Sandusky Register) and will be signing on as an illustrator for Love & Hip-Hop reality star Erica Dixon children's book called "Southern Bell." Later that year Jordan hosted 2 Art Shows, created custom artwork for 4 Pro Athletes, was featured on NFL Monday Night football for custom cleats he designed, became a shoe ambassador, designed his first magazine cover, was featured in 10 different magazines and blogs, connected with an Lakers Sports analyst to give artwork to Lonzo Ball, designed for New York Fashion Week, and gained over 11,000 followers on Instagram. Look to see Jordan rise even bigger in 2018.