#FredEversley peaking through one of his new iconic Parabolic Lens sculptures @davidkordanskygallery “Chromospheres” On view through March 2, NOT to be missed! Fred Eversley has been producing sculptures about the experience of light, color, transparency, and opacity for almost 50 years. Prior to his becoming an artist, he was an engineer who worked in the aerospace industry, incl on projects associated with NASA. This background informs an approach that is experimental in nature; Eversley’s pioneering use of plastic & pigments reflects both the rate of technological advance in the postwar period and the timeless inner workings of the human eye & mind. Produced by one of the only African-American artists associated with the Southern California-based Light & Space movements, his abstract, three-dimensional meditations on color carry sociological metaphors that also allow them to be read in a variety of non-formal contexts prompting, for example, questions about how the optical & biological mechanics of sight determine how we see and understand each other. At 78, Eversley is making some of the most beautiful & thought-provoking work of his career. His newest sculptures are the latest examples of the ocular, lens-like objects for which he is perhaps best known. Radiating bands of color take on an ethereal dimensionality; the act of perception itself assumes tangible form as an intimate visual experience particular to each individual viewer. #arthistory As the artist points out, "The genesis of energy is central to the mystery of our existence as animate beings in an inanimate universe. The original & ultimate source of all energy on earth is the sun. My early sculptures were directly influenced by the solar energy source; my new works take this theme deeper & beyond to the colors of the stars, which we can not see, but only imagine." Eversley had his first solo show in 1970 @Whitneymuseum He is currently featured in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power @BrooklynMuseum until Feb 3, 2019. Recent solo exhibition “Black, White, Gray” Rose Art Museum and Art+Practice, LA + Fred Eversley, 50 Years an Artist: Light & Space & Energy, Muscarelle Museum of Art. (at David Kordansky Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BskhNEJlTvD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dkl1f8p9zq6k