Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
Everette Ball is a New York-based artist whose devotion to detail extends from his realistic landscape drawings to his fantastical paper mache sculptures. Everette’s primary subject is architecture – skyscrapers, bridges, amusement park rides, and freestanding sculptures. With patience and precision, Everette draws source images from his iPad in ink and colored pencil, leaving no brick, pipe, traffic light, or planter left behind. Subtle flourishes are as integral as signature features to a structure’s identity. He applies the same care to drawings of figure models, his grandmother, Venus Flytraps, “Sound of Music” posters, clowns, monsters, and other subjects.
Everette – who identifies as having a developmental disability – is a gifted world-builder, assembling a lexicon of expressions and visual tropes that are distinctly his. Spend time with Everette and you are sure to hear phrases like “The mouse is in the potatoes” and “There’s rainbow cake at the Plaza Hotel,” which invite you into his mind and appear peppered throughout his artwork like easter eggs. Everette’s humor and wild imagination are perfect foils to his methodical practice.