EventsThe New Social Environment#905

Fred Eversley: Parabolic Light

Featuring Eversley and Amanda Gluibizzi, with Roberto Harrison

Monday, September 25, 2023 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Artist Fred Eversley joins Rail ArtSeen Editor Amanda Gluibizzi for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading by Roberto Harrison.

In this Talk

Visit Fred Eversley: Parabolic Light, on view at Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park through August 25, 2024 →

Fred Eversley

Fred Eversley, photo © Maria Larsson

Fred Eversley (b. 1941) is a pivotal figure in West Coast postwar contemporary art. Influenced by Southern California movements like Light and Space, his work is a unique synthesis, shaped by lifelong studies of light, space, time, gravity. A former engineer, Eversley collaborated with NASA, contributing to Gemini and Apollo programs. This developed his interest in the parabola, which emerged in his youth. Eversley’s pioneering use of materials like plastic and polyester resin mirrors postwar technological leaps, while unveiling the enduring mysteries of human perception - art transcending eras, offering timeless insights into the workings of the human eye and mind.

https://www.fredeversley.com/

Amanda Gluibizzi

Amanda Gluibizzi is the founding Co-Director of the New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) and Artseen Editor for the Brooklyn Rail. She specializes in mid- and late-20th century art, design, and urbanism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Amanda is the author of Art and Design in 1960s New York (Anthem Press, 2021).

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨