Liam Everett

Liam Everett (American, b. 1973) lives and works in Sebastopol, California. Everett has established the studio as a site of both investigation and rehearsal. His practice is guided by an evolving set of open-ended questions surrounding the influence of gesture, material, obstruction, and environment on the act of painting. Rather than arriving at definitive conclusions, Everett's abstract paintings serve as records of material encounters, where processes of accumulation, erasure, and transformation reveal the physical and conceptual conditions of their making.

Working through repetitive acts of application and removal, Everett employs unconventional materials and techniques that foreground the physical behavior of paint and other substances. His works emphasize process over image, allowing chance, resistance, and the conditions of the studio itself to shape each composition. Architecture, light, improvised tools, and the artist's own movements become integral to the work, producing paintings that function as indexical records of time, labor, and sustained experimentation.

Everett's work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Biennale of Painting, Deurle, Belgium; UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Institute of Contemporary Art San José; and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. He is the recipient of the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017), the Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship at the San Francisco Art Institute (2013), and the San Francisco Artadia Award (2013). His work is held in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Dallas Museum of Art; the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France; Fondation Carmignac, Paris; and Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway.