di John T. SPIKE
Eversley was a founding artist of the postwar ‘Light and Space’ movement in Los Angeles in the 1960s and he went on to achieve international renown.
Eversley’s career began as an engineer for NASA and other aerospace companies, designing acoustic spaces. After some years of assisting other artists technically , he turned to sculpting the parabola as a work of art, the only geometric shape that concentrates light and liquids into a single focal point.
His sculptures are in the permanent collections of many international institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In 2017, his career anniversary was celebrated in an large exhibition, Fred Eversley: 50 Years an Artist, Light & Space & Energy, at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary, curated by John T. Spike (Figs. 1 and 2). Last year, 2024, Eversley’s largest public installation, PORTALS, was inaugurated at One Flagler in the City of West Palm Beach, Florida (Fig. 3). Consisting of eight 16.5-foot-tall parabolic scultures, PORTALS pays homage to the historic Neo-classical church designed and constructed in 1929, by Julian Abele, one of the leading African-American architects.
