Artist Fred Eversley's newest body of work sparks to life in New York, with incredible surprises when other viewers enter the room.

Six gem-like sculptures by artist Fred Eversley currently stand in the David Kordansky Gallery in New York. Measuring up to 9 feet tall and made from highly-translucent resin, each work feels like it exists somewhere between a physical object and the air itself. But the exhilarating thrill (and total surprise) occurs when someone else enters the room. Each form also functions like a massive lens that visually liquifies, reverses, layers, and color-tints any other visitor who walks in the gallery. Cylindrical Lenses is a celebration of light, color, shared humanity, and exceptional beauty, on view through June 10, 2023. Fred Eversley, “Cylindrical Lenses” at David Kordansky Gallery, New York, 2023
Fred Eversley was born in Brooklyn in 1941 and began his career as an engineer. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, he moved to California where he worked for Wyle Laboratories to build acoustical testing facilities for NASA. In 1967, a severe car accident nearly ended his life, leaving him on crutches for close to a year. He used this time to begin experimenting with art and a completely unique process. Eversley used a modified turntable and liquid plastic to create circular parabolic forms produced by a controlled centrifugal force. Those circular forms would then be laboriously hand-sanded and polished by the artist over so m...