Liam Everett*

Lot #21
Untitled (tanis), 2021
Ink, oil and sand on linen
18.75 x 18 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco

About the Artwork

Liam Everett’s (Headlands Graduate Fellow ‘12) richly colored paintings are built slowly in many layers, yielding complex configurations that invite the eye to move at different speeds across the canvas. Bereft of any singular reference when starting a painting, Everett combs his workspace and immediate surroundings, corralling together defunct tools and studio debris and placing these objects atop the linen of a new work, establishing a working reservoir for the “present-at-hand.” Soaking and staining the linen’s surface, these detritus act as props, offering direction in shaping mass and building up layers. Everett has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels; Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens; Office Baroque, Brussels; On Stellar Rays, New York; and White Columns, New York, among others. He is a recipient of the SFMOMA SECA Art Award, the Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute, and the San Francisco Artadia Award. His monograph, Without an Audience, was published by Altman Siegel and kamel mennour, Paris/London with contributions by Jenny Gheith, Jonathan Griffin, and Hope Mohr.

Retail Value: $12,000