Six gem-like sculptures by artist Fred Eversley presently stand within the David Kordansky Gallery in New York. Measuring as much as 9 toes tall and constructed from highly-translucent resin, every work feels prefer it exists someplace between a bodily object and the air itself. However the exhilarating thrill (and complete shock) happens when another person enters the room. Every kind additionally features like a large lens that visually liquifies, reverses, layers, and color-tints another customer who walks within the gallery. Cylindrical Lenses is a celebration of sunshine, shade, shared humanity, and distinctive magnificence, on view by June 10, 2023.
Fred Eversley, “Cylindrical Lenses” at David Kordansky Gallery, New York, 2023
Fred Eversley was born in Brooklyn in 1941 and commenced his profession as an engineer. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, he moved to California the place he labored for Wyle Laboratories to construct acoustical testing services for NASA. In 1967, a extreme automobile accident practically ended his life, leaving him on crutches for near a 12 months. He used this time to start experimenting with artwork and a unique course of. Eversley used a modified turntable and liquid plastic to create round parabolic types produced by a managed centrifugal drive. These round types would then be laboriously hand-sanded and polished by the artist over so many hours that the consequence functioned as each kind and lens. To see various these spherical lens-like works for which he’s most identified, take a look at photographs from this unimaginable 2019 exhibition right here. And in case you’re as curious as I’m, watch this fascinating and well-produced video of Eversley explaining the method, concepts, and his distinctive origin as an artist in his personal phrases (produced by the Getty Conservation Institute in 2022).
Fred Eversley, “Cylindrical Lenses” at David Kordansky Gallery, New York, 2023
Fred Eversley, “Cylindrical Lenses” at David Kordansky Gallery, New York, 2023
After producing these round types in Venice, California for about 50 years, Eversley has lately moved again to New York and is debuting this main new physique of labor, his first solo exhibition within the metropolis since 1976.
Fred Eversley, Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2022
Fred Eversley, Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2023
Fred Eversley, Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2023
These new types once more comprise a parabola form, now achieved by a diagonal “lower” by a column kind. Every work is barely totally different in how that “column” and “aircraft” work together along with the assorted sizes and colours. All of this produces utterly surprising abstractions of your fellow guests and neighboring works.
Fred Eversley, Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2023
Fred Eversley, Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2023
Fred Eversley, Untitled (cylindrical lens), 2022
All to say: this isn’t a present to maintain to your self. In the event you arrive alone, keep till another person enters (you gained’t have to attend lengthy with how irresistible these look from the sidewalk), and if somebody enters after you, it’s a pleasure to “unintentionally” stroll behind a sculpture that they’re viewing to provide them that shock. The enjoyment of this exhibition is as a lot in regards to the objects as it’s in regards to the pals and strangers you share it with.
Fred Eversley, “Cylindrical Lenses” at David Kordansky Gallery, New York, 2023
Fred Eversley, “Cylindrical Lenses” at David Kordansky Gallery, New York, 2023
What: Fred Eversley: Cylindrical Lenses
The place: David Kordansky Gallery, 520 W 20th St, New York
When: Could 6 – June 10, 2023
All pictures: Tom Powel Studio. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery
