{"id":3623,"date":"2010-11-06T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T16:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:48:27","slug":"erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2010\/11\/06\/erie\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThursday, November 11, 6 p.m. | Kevin Jerome Everson in person!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Still from \u201cErie\u201d (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010).<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the past thirteen years, Kevin Jerome Everson<\/a> has crafted an exquisite\u2014and prodigious\u2014body of work on the working-class culture of African-Americans and people of African descent.\u00a0 Combining documentary and fiction, Everson\u2019s nearly 70 shorts and four features center on everyday tasks and gestures to unearth and illuminate the ordinary grace of daily life.\u00a0 This evening, in conjunction with the Video Data Bank\u2019s release of the 25-title DVD box set, Broad Daylight and Other Times: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson<\/em>, the artist presents his acclaimed feature Erie<\/em> (2010) along with a handful of new shorts. Unspooling in a series of hand-held, single-take shots filmed in the urban centers around the great lake, Erie<\/em> captures the conversation of former General Motors workers as the plant is about to close; hospital employees carefully sorting and sterilizing surgical implements; and young performers krumping and rehearsing musical theater side-by-side, the camera moving between them in a kind of mash-up-en-scene<\/em> and microcosm of the rich and multifaceted operation of the film as a whole.\u00a0 Co-presented by the Video Data Bank. Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010, USA, HDCAM video, ca. 90 min (plus discussion).<\/p>\n

KEVIN JEROME EVERSON<\/strong> (1965, Mansfield, OH) has made four feature-length films and nearly seventy shorts.\u00a0 He received an MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. His films and artwork have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; Wurttenbergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; the Spaces Gallery, Cleveland; the American Academy of Rome, Italy; the Sundance Film Festival; Rotterdam International Film Festival; Cinematexas; Ann Arbor Film Festival; and Chicago Underground Film Festival, among many others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, an American Academy Rome Prize, and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell Colony.\u00a0 He is currently Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Virginia and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n

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