Liam Everett was born in Rochester, NY in 1973 and currently lives and works in Sebastopol, California, north of San Francisco.

The artist’s painting techniques are industrial and multi- faceted. He presses painted plastics on the painting’s surface, peels them away, uses grates or pieces of construction sites as stencils, and then applies industrial spray paint and thick brushstrokes. All of his works are untitled, with subtitles referencing Native North and South American tribal lands, seemingly linked to abstract ideas of place and identity with a nod to the concept of archeology.

Untitled (Viazac) here has bold, vivid tones dominating with white where the paint has been sanded all the way down to the primer, as if he is digging to unearth buried treasure, as an archeologist would.

Liam Everett: The art of obstruction - Artist Liam Everett, one of SFMOMA’s 2017 SECA Art Award winners, explains his use of furniture and loose materials to simultaneously obstruct and direct his approach to painting. He describes how these props force him to remain present—as if performing in a theatrical set—yet also distance him from the final product

Works included in

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens’ Biennale of Painting in Deurle, Belgium, June 201

Recent group exhibitions include

Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
the Wattis Institute, San Francisco
White Columns, New York
Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna

Recent performances include Kadist, San Francisco

Liste 17, Basel
179 Canal, New York

Everett’s editioned artist’s book Inutile was recently published by RITE Editions and is now part of the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.