Liam Everett in conversation with Natasha Boas

Liam Everett discusses his exhibition of new paintings, “ticklepenny lemon phosphate,” with curator, writer, and critic Natasha Boas.

Liam Everett lives and works in Sebastopol, CA. Throughout his oeuvre, the artist has established the studio as a site of both investigation and rehearsal. His practice is mediated by a set of open-ended, continually shifting questions as to the influence of gesture, material, obstruction, and the environment upon his work. Rather than offering definitive answers, however, Everett’s paintings further elaborate these questions and act as record of the material encounters that occur within them.

Everett’s process is centered upon repetitious application and erasure. The artist commences each painting on heavy bound unstretched linen and builds chromatic compositions according to a set of self-imposed rules and obstacles. These parameters often involve the incorporation of defunct tools and studio debris to shape mass and construct layers, for example. In other instances, the spatial configuration of Everett’s studio – like the dimensions of a door or the lines of a table – act as starting points. The artist’s authorial intervention extends no further than this, however. While Everett regularly begins with quotidian objects and actions, he does not intend for these items to perform any sort of signification, allowing the paintings to develop organically.

Everett’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA; Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium; Kasmin, New York, NY; Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France; Galerie Art & Essai, Université de Rennes, Rennes, France; Kamel Mennour, Paris, France and London, UK; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece; and White Columns, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium; Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France; Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; Arndt, Singapore; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; and Canada, New York, NY.

Natasha Boas, Ph.D is an international independent curator, scholar, and critic based in San Francisco and Paris. She is currently working with Zineb Sedira who is representing France at the Venice Biennale and is the Frieze correspondent for San Francisco. Her next show, entitled “Brad Kahlhamer: Swap Meet,” opens March 4, 2022 at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, supported by the Warhol Foundation, along with “Capturing Space: New Works by Teresa Baker.”

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