Fred eversley biography

Fred Eversley (b. 1941, Brooklyn, New York) is a key figure in the development of contemporary art from Los Angeles during the postwar period. Now based in New York after living and working in Venice Beach, California for fifty years, Eversley synthesizes elements from several art historical movements associated with Southern California, including Light and Space, though his work is the product of a pioneering vision all his own, informed by lifelong studies on the timeless principles of light, space, time, and gravity. Prior to his becoming an artist, Eversley was an engineer who collaborated with NASA and major aerospace companies in designing high-intensity acoustical laboratories, which helped develop his interest in the parabola: the only shape that concentrates all forms of energy to a single focal point. His pioneering use of plastic, polyester resin, and industrial dyes and pigments reflects the technological advances that define the postwar period even as his work reveals the timeless inner workings of the human eye and mind. Eversley’s abstract, three-dimensional meditations on color—including the luminous lens-like objects for which he is best known—entice the viewer to approach, prompting questions about how the biological and optical mechanics of

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Fred Eversley

SELECTED Alone EXHIBITIONS

2013
Imago Gallery, Region Desert, CA

2012
David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2011
William Turner Room, Santa Monica, CA

2010 
La Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008
Quandro Gallery, Port, UAE

2004
Osuna Drift, Washington, D. C.
European Break Agency Heading, The Hague, Netherlands

2003
Capa Esculturas, Brussels, Belgium

1991
Eve Cohon Drift, Chicago IL

1988
Hokin Gallery, Decoration Beach & Bal Hide, FL

1985
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

1984
Bacardi Art Verandah, Miami, FL

1983
Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1982
Pepperdine University Fill Gallery, Malibu, CA

1981
National Establishment of Branch, Washington D.C.
American Institute designate Architects, General, D.C.

1978
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

1977
Oakland Museum of Focus on, Oakland, CA
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1976 
National Academy acquire Science, President, D.C.
Los Angeles Institute pencil in Contemporary Distinctive, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Newport Harbor Cut up Museum, Port Beach, CA

1975
Andrew Crispo Room, New Dynasty, NY

1973
J.L. Navigator Gallery, City, MI

1971
Morgan Room, Kansas Encumbrance, MO
Quay Drift, San Francisco, CA

1970 
Whitney Museum of English Art, In mint condition York, NY
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Fred Eversley

Fred Eversley is a Venice-based sculptor and one of a group of artists associated with the 1960s L.A. "finish fetish" movement that paralleled minimal art in New York. Greatly influenced by studio mate, mentor, and fellow artist Charles Mattox, as well as by Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, and John Altoon, Eversley developed a process that involves spinning liquid plastic around a vertical axis until the centrifugal forces create a concave surface. Evoking mirrors or large optical lenses, many of Eversley's sculptures incorporate parabolic curves. These pieces are alluring and seductive, and the resulting illusion draws the viewer into them by reflecting back his or her image—an experience that departs from the distance that traditionally separates the spectator from the art object.

Eversley's mother was a New York City schoolteacher and his father an aerospace engineer. While attending New York public schools, Eversley took several pre–electrical engineering classes. After receiving his bachelor of science degree from the Carnegie Institute in 1963, he was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, intending to study for a PhD in biomedical engineering and an MD, for which he was awarded a four-year National Institutes of Heath graduate fellow