Jeremy Everett: Double Pour

Wilding Cran Gallery is pleased to present Double Pour, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles and Paris based artist Jeremy Everett. Utilising a variety of mediums including painting, photography, and video, the works in the exhibition share an exploration of visual necessity, impermanence and a reduction toward the absolute. Starting with an action— pouring, arranging, vacuuming or, quite literally, crashing— Everett’s findings become delicate abstractions that expose a poetry of being. In his Broken Grid (2015) series he approaches painting through techniques used in sculpture and printing. As layers of water-based paint are buried below a thin wire mesh, colours bleed together and the grid becomes twisted, kinked and broken by the action of painting. The result reduces any imagery to reveal the physicality of the object and the visual charge of the painting surface.

Two videos continue Everett’s exposé of visual meaning and truth. FLOY (2015), his latest and possibly most ambitious gesture, is a sculpture/performance using a 60' truck flipped on its side spilling milk across the greatest American monument, the highway. "I closed the highway so I could wreck the truck, I wanted the sculpture to temporarily stop the system," Everett explained. As the sculpture blocked the road, he flew above in a helicopter to document the work with stills and video. The footage is as raw and direct as a live news feed. A second video in the exhibition, Death Valley Vacuum (2009), shows Everett vacuuming up the landscape of Death Valley, an absurd and intimate action in an expansive space.