Marais, Paris
Kirsten Everberg
E1027
Hussenot"Nearly a century after Eileen Gray's groundbreaking modernist masterpiece, E1027, the conversation between Gray and Corbusier continues. Where Corbusier demands the house as machine, Gray rejects this formula and interprets his 5-point mandate, instead operating from the position of the house as a living organism, where the individual, life, heart and spirit drive the construction of space to be at harmony in one’s environment. Unprecedented when the house was completed in 1929. While the authorship and architectural attribution are finally no longer at issue, Corbusier’s presence lurks around every corner, his murals remain, appropriating the house emotionally, symbolically and materially, their voices and the issues they represent continue to be relevant." “To create, one must first question everything…” —Eileen Gray 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. Everberg 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.