INSTALLATION
DAYBREAK, SHIPS AND THE SEA, TRANSPORTATION, ORDINANCE SURVEY, ART IN SANITY/ WORK IN PROGRESS
Felix Kulpa Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 2019
"Occasionally, I have an opportunity to show my work before I even have a theme. For this exhibition, there was no organizing principle or overarching theme. I just took whatever work was already in progress, peripheral view, and mind's eye, to the gallery, and responded to the space, with its crumbling walls, circles and craters.......The show included all the things I was painting and things I was considering painting, along with video reflecting on my current concerns, as well as studio furniture. The subject matter varied but was indicative of my preoccupations at the time; the moon, the clouds, transportation, ships and the sea, psychological states, and more. There were words and images, that happened to be in my studio, including shelf signs and detritus from the last days of Logos Bookstore, a month's worth of paintings made with coffee on coffee filters, images of the toast I had eaten, drawn on paper plates, and a month's worth of nocturne drawings of the sea ("Box of See"). Over the course of the exhibition, I assigned myself daily activities. These included circular drawings on the floor and walls, walking to collect objects that might be subjects, collecting stories, writing, conversing and making a daily cloud drawing to be installed in a "Box of Cloud" each day for the duration of the show,. The moon and the clouds became thematic...People left their footprints in the dust.
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Box of Cloud
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Moon Words
"The huntsmen are up in America, writes Thomas Browne in the Garden of Cyrus, and they are already past the first sleep in Persia. The shadow of night is drawn like a black veil across the earth, and since almost all creatures, from one meridian to the next, lie down after sun has set, so, he continues, one might, in following the setting sun see on our globe nothing but prone bodies, row upon row as if leveled by the Scythe of Saturn an endless graveyard for a humanity felled by falling sickness."
-from The Rings Of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald |
"Groping back to bed after a piss
I part thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid cloud and the moon's cleanliness Four o'clock, wedge-shadowed gardens lie Under a cavernous, a wind-picked sky There's something laughable about this The way the moon clashes through clouds that blew Loosely as cannon-smoke to stand apart (Stone-coloured light sharpening roofs below) High and preposterous and separate - Lozenge of Love! Meditation of art! O wolves of memory. Immensements! No One shivers slightly, looking up there, The hardness and the brightness and the plain Far-reaching singleness of that wide stare It's a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young that it can't come again, But for others undiminished somewhere." - Sad Steps, by Philip Larkin |
Reel To Reel
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Wall Rubbings
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WENT TO SEE/WORK IN PROGRESS
Goetemann Artist Residency
Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 2018
"Went to See/Work in Progress" was a month long residency that took place on a pier in the harbor at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, Massachusetts. It began with an empty studio but, gradually, I filled the floor with drawings of the surface of the sea. The project involved a daily schedule of activities - each morning, a painting made with coffee on a coffee filter, and a piece of toast drawn on a paper plate - each evening, a nocturne chalk drawing of the surrounding scene. During the day, I ventured out into the town, and along the Atlantic coast, to find objects and stories to complement the maritime themes of mapping and navigation, local history and mythology. I returned with nautical instruments, pictures, maps, books, furniture, words and chalk drawings of the waves on the coast - objects, images and words, then deployed on site, to augment the oceanic theme. The 'studio' was open and the work evolved, as the drawing and painting projects progressed, objects were accumulated, and conversations took place.
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Box of See |
Daily Toast |
Daily Coffee |
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DRAWING WATER
Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016.
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"...of lying half-asleep, half-awake in bed in the nursery in St. Ives. It is of hearing
the waves breaking one, two, one, two and of hearing the splash and sending a splash
of water over the beach and then breaking one, two, one, two behind a yellow blind...."
- Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2016.
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"...of lying half-asleep, half-awake in bed in the nursery in St. Ives. It is of hearing
the waves breaking one, two, one, two and of hearing the splash and sending a splash
of water over the beach and then breaking one, two, one, two behind a yellow blind...."
- Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being
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IMAGINARY VIRGINIA: CHILDHOOD AND THE SEA
Felix Kulpa II Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 2015.
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"That great Cathedral space that was childhood"
- Virginia Woolf
Felix Kulpa II Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 2015.
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"That great Cathedral space that was childhood"
- Virginia Woolf
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SHIPBUILDING
Ian Everard / Pippa Possible
Imaginary Virginia @ Felix Kulpa II, Santa Cruz, California, 2015.
Regenerating Tradition @ Galerie Califia, Art Mill, Horazd'ovice, Czech Republic, 2013.
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"It seems a long time ago now, though it is only a matter of time.
A father and daughter lived on a cliff above the sea....."
Ian Everard / Pippa Possible
Imaginary Virginia @ Felix Kulpa II, Santa Cruz, California, 2015.
Regenerating Tradition @ Galerie Califia, Art Mill, Horazd'ovice, Czech Republic, 2013.
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"It seems a long time ago now, though it is only a matter of time.
A father and daughter lived on a cliff above the sea....."
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Walk through of Shipbuilding, Iteration II, Felix Kulpa II Gallery:
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INSIDEOUT / WORK IN PROGRESS
The de Young Museum, Kimball Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2015.
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"The shows were, essentially, about where I am from.
The theme of these shows was imaginary and actual return
to my place of birth and my multivalent relationship to that place."
The de Young Museum, Kimball Gallery, San Francisco, California, 2015.
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"The shows were, essentially, about where I am from.
The theme of these shows was imaginary and actual return
to my place of birth and my multivalent relationship to that place."
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RE PLACE / WORK IN PROGRESS
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California, 2013/14.
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"...I returned to the house but was not invited in. I drew the outside...."
Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California, 2013/14.
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"...I returned to the house but was not invited in. I drew the outside...."
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"Taking Steps"
Graphite on vellum, 112" x 53" x 55", 2012 "Surface Imaginary 1 & 2"
Graphite on vellum, 40" x 60" x 36", 2013. |
"MiniGangGang" Inherited photograph/watercolor 8" x 10", 2013 |
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"Dadad" Inherited Photograph/watercolor, 8" x 10", 2013.
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"DaDad 2" Graphite on prepared linen, 67" x 96", 2013.
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"MiniGangGang" Inherited photograph/watercolor, 8" x 10", 2013.
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"MuMum 2" Graphite on prepared linen, 67" x 96", 2013.
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"MuMum" Inherited photograph/watercolor, 8" x 10", 2013.
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"Wave" Drawings for video sequence Graphite on vellum 4 1/2" x 5 1/2", 2012 |
"Postcards From Home"
Graphite on postcards dimensions variable, 2012 |
"Vanishing Point"
Inherited photograph/watercolor 8" x 10", 2013 |
"Rough Stuff 1" Acquired photograph/watercolor 8" x 10", 2012 |
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FOUR ATTEMPTS TO ASSUME THE POSITION OF BORLASE SMART
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Captain Borlase Smart (1881-1947) was a legendary figure in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, Ian Everard's birthplace. Smart was of the generation of painters in the early part of the twentieth century who would dress for dinner to go out painting. He is seen here, seated on a rock, below the St. Ives Arts Cub, painting the scene, sometime in the 1930's. The Arts Club is next to the house of Everard's birth and the scene looks much the same today.
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Smart was, essentially, a gentleman painter. He did not have to worry too much about his income or standing in society. However, he had a serious academic training, is widely respected to this day, and there can be no doubting his commitment to his work. His painting was in the style of plein air - Post Impressionist landscape and seascape painting, made in the open air, as opposed to the studio. It would have been considered traditional at the time. However, unlike his peers, and despite his rather 'posh' appearance and academic training, he attempted to bridge the generations - encouraging and supporting younger artists in their experiments with abstraction and what was then referred to as the non objective world.
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It proved to be a challenge for me to assume the position of Smart. I purchased a stylish hat for the occasion but had to clamber over slimy rocks with a high fever. I made four attempts.....
IN FLUX: CASE CLOSED
Ian Everard / Maria Chomentowski
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 2011.
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"In the forensics of art, unintended consequences abound."
Ian Everard / Maria Chomentowski
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 2011.
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"In the forensics of art, unintended consequences abound."
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INFLUX
Part One Open the case. Take out the objects. Render the objects. Name the objects. Replace the objects. Render the case. Close the case. |
Part Two Open the case. Open the rendered case. Take out the objects. Take out the rendered objects. Name the objects. Name the rendered objects. Replace the objects. Replace the rendered objects. Close the rendered case. Close the case. |
Part Three
Take the rendered case outside. Attach it to a helium balloon. Let it go. |
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TWELVE SUGGESTIONS
Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2010.
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"Perhaps it begins with a count down: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4. On the count of 3....."
Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2010.
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"Perhaps it begins with a count down: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4. On the count of 3....."
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IN CAMERA / WORK IN PROGRESS
Cabrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 2016.
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“...one eye on the model, the other on the paper.” - Roland Barthes
Cabrillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 2016.
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“...one eye on the model, the other on the paper.” - Roland Barthes
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In Camera/Work in Progress from Ian Everard on Vimeo.
SECRETSECRET / WORK IN PROGRESS
San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California.
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"In all the Library there are no two identical books." ~ Jorge Luis Borges
San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California.
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"In all the Library there are no two identical books." ~ Jorge Luis Borges
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POCKET HISTORY
"Reconstructing Memories," University of Hawai'i Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2006.
"Reconstructing Memories," University of Hawai'i Art Gallery, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 2006.
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LOCUS&FOCUS / WORK IN PROGRESS
Video still [2006]
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 2005.
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"...I entered the scene with newspaper and coffee...."
Video still [2006]
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 2005.
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"...I entered the scene with newspaper and coffee...."
