
1301PE is pleased to present its second one-person exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Kirsten Everberg. The exhibition will present a series of new paintings from her recent commission by the city of Nancy, France.
In the spring of 2005, Kirsten Everberg was commissioned by the city of Nancy in France to begin a series of paintings based on the examination of post-war modernist government built housing, specifically Haute du Lievre. As in her paintings of the Soviet style hotel in Brno or the Barbican in London, she presents a series of interior spaces, both public and private. These are not a nostalgic look at the modernist period, but with an understanding of how meaning is constructed and controlled. In the same way the paintings are constructed with their drips, pours and seemingly abstract gestures.
Kirsten Everberg was born in Los Angeles, CA and studied at the University of California Los Angeles, California. In 2004, she was included in the Undiscovered Country at the Hammer Museum this was followed by her first one-person museum exhibition at le consortium, Dijon. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Kirsten Everberg is a LA-based painter whose work explores the interplay between memory, fragmentation, photography, cinema and the subjective nature of perception. It is Everberg’s seductive surfaces that first capture our gaze. Using a unique combination of oil and enamel paint, her works hover between representation and pure paint. There is always a tension here between the convincing depiction of space, and the abstract skeins of color that dance across the canvas. What appears to be an historic ballroom or dense jungle from far away, is reconfigured into glossy pools of paint close-up. Everberg’s mastery of her medium is demonstrated by how deftly she walks this line. Narrative and image; truth and fiction; surface and what lies beneath – are all woven together in Everberg’s captivating works.

Founded by Brian Butler in 1992, 1301PE is a contemporary art gallery exhibiting significant Los Angeles based artists as well as internationally established and acclaimed artists. The gallery is known for its exhibition of significant work across mediums. Founded on the principle of promoting Los Angeles artists worldwide, the gallery has been located at its current location in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles since 1998.

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