This weekend, the Leimert Park gallery and complex Art + Practice will unveil 6,000 square feet of new gallery space. To inaugurate the new room, they’ll be staging an exhibition of works by sculptor Fred Eversley.
Black, White, Gray includes many of Eversley’s large-scale cast-resin pieces that, as the L.A. Times points out, play with light and perception, offering the viewer a complex and engaging experience. Eversley moved to L.A. in the early-1960s to work in aerospace, but found himself swept up in the Venice Beach counter-culture scene and turned his skills to making art instead of airplanes. In 1972, he started a series of pieces in only monochrome black, white and gray that make up the basis of this exhibition.
The new show is a collaboration with the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. Previously, Art + Practice has opened up space to the Hammer Museum for a series of collaborative exhibits and live programs.
Founded by artist Mark Bradford, philanthropist and art collector Eileen Norton and community organizer Allan DiCastro, the Art + Practice project is an ambitious one. The organization has taken over 20,000 square feet of space in six adjacent buildings in the heart of Leimert Park Village. In addition to art galleries, there are performance spaces, educational and youth service centers, rooms for South L.A. kids to practice music and art and even a corner storefront set aside for a forthcoming café and retail space.
Fred Eversly: Black, White, Gray will be on display from Nov 12 to Jan 28, open Monday to Saturday, noon to 6pm. An opening reception will be held on Nov 12 from 4 to 6pm. Art + Practice Exhibition Space is located at 3401 W 43rd Place.
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