Fred Eversley June 3, 2009

Opening reception: Sunday, June 7, 2009, from 3 to 5 pm. Refreshments generously provided by Robert Oatley Vineyards and Golden Star Tea Company.



LA Artcore presents an exhibition by Los Angeles artist Frederick John Eversley.

The Venice-based artist is one of a group of local artists associated with the 1960's "L.A. Finish Fetish" movement that paralleled Minimal Art in New York. His sleek polyester resins objects incorporate the native tradition of craftsmanship with aerospace technologies. Frederick Eversley's works evoke mirrors or large optical lenses, as he uses a process that involves spinning liquid plastic around a vertical axis until the centrifugal forces create a concave surface. Many of his sculptures incorporate parabolic curves that are found in a range of natural and man-made forms including suspension bridges, wind-blown sand dunes, and microwave reflectors, and Eversley is fascinated by their ability to concentrate and reflect energy into a single point.

For Frederick Eversley, energy concerns, both physical and metaphysical, are central to the quality of life for all of humanity and thus seems like an important and fertile area for artistic investigation and activity. Most of Eversley's attention, both intellectually and aesthetically, has involved using his art forms as an expression of energy concerns.

According to the artist energy means literally, the capacity to do work - to move against a force; to create a rise in temperature; to cause a flow of electrons; to facilitate the process of photosynthesis. The energy flux is the common denominator of all natural and human systems. A living organism can be viewed as a chemical system designed to maintain and replicate itself by utilizing energy that originates from the sun. The artful manipulation of energy is the essential component to the supply of food, to physical comfort and to improving the quality of life beyond rudimentary activities necessary for survival. The concept of energy has a transcendental quality, both in physical and metaphysical terms. It is a reality, with a proven validity and durability, that which transcends whatever is the popular mathematical description of the times, from its application in classical Newtonian mechanics to the currently accepted roles in the twin intellectual revolutions of Einstein’s special theory of relativity and Planck’s theory of quantum mechanics. The special theory of relativity simply states that everything is energy. In one form energy is converted into motion, which provides the element time and thus defines any event or process. The other form of energy is mass, which is the basis of the solid matter, which composes the real world. The elements of mass and motion and energy are interchangeable and the other two defines each element. Light and radiation have no matter of mass, and as such are pure energy.

The genesis of energy is central to the mystery of our existence as animate beings in an inanimate universe. The most disturbing impression gained from any study of energy phenomena, in both a social and physical sense, is the present and ever growing energy shortage. We are witnessing an end of an era of cheap and abundant energy and all the social mores that this implied. An examination of recent history regarding growth in population, automation and energy usage immediately calls to mind the frightening impact of the simple mathematical tautology that is implicit in any exponential curve. That is - the doubling of any quantity at some regular interval requires that the magnitude of the last term of the resulting series exceed the cumulative total of all the magnitudes of the preceding terms of that series. Since it is projected that the world energy demand will triple in the next 25 years, it is obvious that major attention must be focused onto this problem.

Frederick Eversley has exhibited at many prestigious museums and galleries worldwide.

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