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.
Read MoreEverberg graduated with a MFA from UCLA in 2004. In the same year, she had her first solo exhibition - at 1301PE - and was featured in Russell Ferguson's group exhibition 'The Undiscovered Country' at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Since then she has exhibited widely, amongst others at the Scottsdale Museum of Art; Pomona College museum of Art, Claremont, CA; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; MOCA, Los Angeles.
Text courtesy 1301PE.
