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Fred Eversley is a pioneer of the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by an emphasis on optical and perceptual phenomena. Born in Brooklyn, as an electrical engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon, Eversley began to work for the West Coast aerospace industry at Wyle Laboratories in 1963. After designing and overseeing high-intensity acoustic and vibration test laboratories for NASA, his career trajectory shifted due to a car accident in 1967. Surrounded by artist friends in Venice Beach, he began to make art. Eversley found early success, being featured in a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970, while also having several shows across America and launching his international career at the inaugural Art Basel, Switzerland.

Eversley’s scientific and technical knowledge led to his invention of the rotational mold spin-casting of liquid, dyed polyester. After first utilizing a lathe, spinning cylindrical multicolored tubes cut into various shapes, he went on to retrofit turntables to spin-cast perfect parabolic forms—the only shape focusing all forms of energy to a single focal point—by using centrifugal and gravitational forces. These early works foremost used three colors—violet, amber, blue—in three layers, with different chromatic effects and gradations in transparency produced by varying the spinning speed as well as the amounts of resin and dye. In 2018 Eversley returned to his early recipes while exploring new color combinations. Eversley continues investigating new concepts based on the same fundamental properties of light, time, and energy.

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