Binoculars (2019)
Binoculars (English)
Kevin Jerome Everson, Binoculars, 2019
Rubber, 6 x 16.2 x 11.7 cm
Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Kevin Jerome Everson, Binoculars, 2019
Bronze, 7 x 16.5 x 12.7 cm
Courtesy the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
These two works cast in bronze and rubber are displayed in the main gallery as an accompaniment to the film Condor (2019), and they also feature as props in the film Brown Thrasher (2020). Works like these are a key part of the artist’s work, who often reproduces everyday objects in different materials for his films. These are frequently overlooked, as they cannot be exhibited at film festivals to accompany screenings, but they nonetheless say a lot about the artist’s approach to filmmaking. In both films and objects, the materiality of the media plays a key role, as does reference to their analog and hand-made production.
Kevin Jerome Everson
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.