Film Studies Lecture: Double Feature at the Sunset Drive-In

A talk/presentation by artist Kevin Jerome Everson focusing on his influences and methodology. Trained in photography and engaged in printmaking and sculpture, Everson began working in the medium of analog film in the late 1990’s, and to date has made 12 features and over 250 solo and collaborative works. Here he will discuss the processes, procedures and materials, as well as the recurring subjects, locations, themes and formal strategies represented in his artistic practice over the past two decades.

Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965, Mansfield, Ohio, lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Everson’s art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film. Recipient of the Guggenheim; the Berlin Prize; the Heinz Award in Arts & Humanities; the Alpert Award for Film/Video and the Rome Prize, his work has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, Highline, NYC, Centre Pompidou, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art Seoul, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Harvard Film Archive. His moving image work has been featured at the Whitney Biennial (2008, 2012, 2017), the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International, the 2023 Contour Biennial, Mechelen, Belgium and the 2024 Thailand Biennial.

This lecture is part of a three-day event that will include screenings of Kevin Everson’s films:

Wed, 9/25 · 7:00 pm—9:00 pm
James Stewart Theater 185, Nassau Street
Film Screening: Kevin Everson’s Lago Gatún

Thu, 9/26 · 7:00 pm—9:00 pm
James Stewart Theater 185, Nassau Street
Film Screening: Selected Short Films by Kevin Everson