Esthetics and Politics; Labor and History
Recent Short Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
Co-Presented with Blaffer On Screen
Curated by Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado
Kevin Jerome Everson and Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado in attendance
Friday, September 12, 7:30PM
Aurora Members Free (with RSVP), Non-Members $10
Kevin Jerome Everson has made an expansive body of work composed of over seventy short-form pieces and five feature-length films that present images of the lives of black Americans through his own distinctive practice of cinematic portraiture: a blend of fiction and documentary that hones in on subjects of labor and leisure. In a unique way Kevin Everson combines history, reality and form, in films that focus on work and the essential role that African-Americans have played in the development of labor in the United States. His films are formal explorations grounded in historical, social, political and concrete reality. This program presents a selection of Everson's short films curated by Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado.
Aurora Picture Show Members are invited to attend a Behind-The-Scenes Members-Only reception with Kevin Jerome Everson and Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado before the screening at 6:30PM. RSVP kindly requested.
In addition to the screening at Aurora, join Everson and Blaffer On Screen for a free presentation of Everson's feature "The Island of St. Matthews" on Saturday, September 13 at 4PM in Freed Auditorium, Glassell School of Art. For more information visit www.blafferartmuseum.org.
Kevin Jerome Everson was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He has a MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from University of Akron. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He was awarded the 2012 Alpert Award for Film/Video and was the subject in spring 2012 of a mid-career retrospective at Visions du Reel, Nyon Switzerland and a 2009 retrospective at the Centre Pompidou. His work has been featured in the 2008 and 2012 Whitney Biennials and the 2012 Sharjah Biennial.
Tygers (2014)(b/w still) courtesy of the artist; trilobite-Arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures