Fred Eversley's guest appearances

Fred Eversley

Art Talk

About Art

Pandemic Oral History Project

Kara Goldin

Richard Betts

David Glasser

Lance Armstrong

Hank WIllis Thomas

John Hickenlooper

Sanford Biggers

Paul Becker

Jerry Garcia

Kim Jones

Lita Albuquerque

Pete McBride

Erica Keswin

Dario Robleto

Sarah Thornton

OwlTail

Fred Eversley’s lenses and mirrored forms reflect and refract the world, and our place within it. Eversley hit his stride with his primary mode of working at the same time the Light and Space movement gained momentum in Southern California. Yet unlike his Light and Space and Finish Fetish peers who often collaborated with scientists and outsourced fabrication of their work, Eversley’s firsthand technical understanding as a scientist himself (Eversley came to Southern California in the 1960s to work as a consulting engineer for NASA and his early career was spent with United States’ largest aerospace company during that period–Wyle Labs in Los Angeles) enabled him to utilize materials in ways that uniquely position his practice. Eversley is the subject of a major show at The Orange County Museum of Art / OCMA when the museum opens on October 8.  He and Zuckerman discuss science, how his work is about energy, failure, infinite possibility, climate change, working in New York, the importance of his groundbreaking 1978 exhibition at OCMA (then known as the Newport Harbor Art Museum), black holes, and proximity to other artists and thinkers!

Fred Eversley’s lenses and mirrored forms reflect and refract the world, and our place within it. Eversley hit his stride with his primary mode of working at the same time the Light and Space movement gained momentum in Southern California. Yet unlike his Light and Space and Finish Fetish peers who often collaborated with scientists and outsourced fabrication of their work, Eversley’s firsthand technical understanding as a scientist himself (Eversley came to Southern California in the 1960s to work as a consulting engineer for NASA and his early career was spent with United States’ largest aerospace company during that period–Wyle Labs in Los Angeles) enabled him to utilize materials in ways that uniquely position his practice. Eversley is the subject of a major show at The Orange County Museum of Art / OCMA when the museum opens on October 8. He and Zuckerman discuss science, how his work is about energy, failure, infinite possibility, climate change, working in New York, the importance of his groundbreaking 1978 exhibition at OCMA (then known as the Newport Harbor Art Museum), black holes, and proximity to other artists and thinkers!

92. Fred Eversley

An interview with Fred Eversley conducted 2020 August 19, by Nyssa Chow, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at at Eversley's studio in New York, New York. Read the full transcript at https://s.si.edu/Eversley_POHT and learn more at https://s.si.edu/pandemic

An interview with Fred Eversley conducted 2020 August 19, by Nyssa Chow, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at at Eversley's studio in New York, New York. Read the full transcript at <a href="https://s.si.edu/Eversley_POHT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://s.si.edu/Eversley_POHT</a> and learn more at <a href="https://s.si.edu/pandemic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://s.si.edu/pandemic</a>

Interview with Fred Eversley