Fred Eversley, the art and sculpture to fascinate the art and science Freed Freeded to create parabolic sculptures, killed at the age of 83. Hyperalergic accidentally died following a short illness.
Eversley was founded in the southern art scene of California in the late 1960s, Larry Bell, Valentine, and Peter Alexander, and his bright sculptures, artisans from industrial materials. Although it is linked to light and space movement, the title of these artists would be known, what he did not apart in his colleagues in the scientific basis behind his work of art, as it is in the case of spiritual or transcendent foundations behind his artwork.
Born in Brooklyn in 1941, Eversley showed early interest in science, using Jell-O plaque filled with a plate and a cake plaque to create parabolic shapes. He studied electric engineering at the Carnegie Technology Institute (Carnegie Mellon), where he was the only black engineering. He moved to Los Angeles in 1963, where he worked as an engineer for Wylzea’s laboratories designing acoustic laboratories in NASA. Housing was frustrated by the policies of racist, located on Venice beach, one of the few integrated western neighborhoods in the city. He gave a large part of his career in Venice and became an artist before Judy Chicago and Larry Bell will help them with engineering problems.
After a weakened car accident in 1967, he began experimenting with resinla in the studio of the artist Charles Mattox, creating his first sculptures, sliced the transparent cylinder of the colored resin in several angles. In 1969, John Altone, throughout the year, entered the studio designed by Frank Gehry, threw the first parabolic lens of polyester resin, which would continue to explore more than five decades.
“His life was parallel to the world of the world and suddenly, he really was more interested in the questions that artists were interested in Engineers.” Whitney Museum of American Arts Conaty said in a 2019 interview.
On the suggestion of Robert Rauschenberg, Betty Parsons came to New York vendors and Leo Castelli, both refused to offer shows, even buying some work in Parson. Happy meeting with the Commissioner Marcia Tucker 1970 brought a solo show in 1970, followed by exhibitions at the New Harris Gallery in Chicago and Phyllis Gallery.
Eversley didn’t forget; His work lives in collections of more than 40 museums. However, the level of reputation that was achieved by some contemporaries was elusive. The deep scientific foundation of his works distinguished from other light and space artists, they were all white and the abstractions of his hard edge were comfortable within the limits of the 1960s and the limits of the black arts of the 70s.
In the last decade or so, that started changing. In 2018, David Kordansky replaced the first gallery and became unique. In 2022, Orange County Art Museum of Art opened a new building with a retrospective, spreading in the 1976 solo show in the same organization. In 2023, he created his first external return, the Public Art Fund Committee, with the name of the “Parabolic Light” of the Parabolic Magenta Magenta Magenta Magenta. “Portals”, its largest public works of art, consisting of eight steel cylinders, was made up of West Palm Beach late last year.
Despite the technical and scientific basis, it is the relationship between Eversley’s sculptures and the relationship between the audience, works of art and the world, reflecting and refracting, the subject never studied numerous variations.
“Eversley is in line with a viruthorized effort,” he wrote Hyperalergic Natalie Haddad editors in 2021.
Eversley had to leave his Venice Studio in 2019 when his lessee refused to renovate his lease, when he had a full-time work at his Soho Studio in New York, occupied from the end of the 1970s.
“He had a unique view and never had vision clarity,” Cassandra Coblent Commissioner, said the 2022 Ocma show, said Hyperalergic. “He approached the horrible whole for his work and continued in decades to accept his craft in the dedication. I always stepped forward when exploring the smoothest nuance he had progressed.”
