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Exhibition Tour: Recover
Kevin Jerome Everson 

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The hall’s large exhibition space is darkened and has an imposing screen. There’s plenty of variety here with shorter film works by Kevin Jerome Everson. Everson grew up in Mansfield, Ohio; a town deeply rooted in a working-class industrial culture. As a result, many of Everson’s films feature African-American people at work and doing their jobs. Everson is very subtle and avoids explicit situations and rash judgments. It is interesting to see the searching and questioning gaze of the films, whereby the limits and freedoms of black lives are revealed. Everson’s film works, however, are by no means exhausted in the documentary; rather, they open up an unexpected access to abstraction. 

Curator:
Cathrin Mayer

Texts:
Cathrin Mayer

Translation:
Gregory Bond

Voice:
Howard Curtis

Camera & Sound:
kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com, Manuel Carreon Lopez

Editor:
Kevin Ferdinandus

Artists

Participating artists

Kevin Jerome Everson

*1965 Mansfield, lives in Charlottsville

The work and practice of Kevin Jerome Everson encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film. He studied at the University of Akron as well as at Ohio University and is Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson has been recognized with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alpert Award in Film/​Video, the Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities, the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome and the Fellowship of the American Academy in Berlin. He was awarded various grants, from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; and the Ohio Arts Council.

His artwork has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and the Harvard Film Archive. His works were presented at international film festivals and art institutions including the Unknown Pleasures Festival, Berlin; Sundance Film Festival, Utah; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Images Film Festival Toronto; Venice International Film Festival; BFI/​London Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück; the Viennale, Vienna; BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; MOCA, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MoMA, New York; and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington D.C. His films have been featured at the 2008, 2012 and 2017 Whitney Biennial and the 2013 Sharjah Biennial.

Everson is represented by Picture Palace Pictures, New York and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.

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