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SF Art Galleries - Openings & Events Event source calendar Event Link: see venue calendar above ^^ LIAM EVERETT the passenger September 10 – October 29, 2026 Artwork documentation by Chris Grunder. Berggruen Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of recent paintings by the Northern California artist Liam Everett. This show marks Everett’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The gallery will host a discussion with Liam Everett, moderated by Mari Robles, Chief Executive Officer of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Thursday, September 10 4:30 PM Opening Reception to Follow 5 – 7 PM View Exhibition Inquire Liam Everett is not looking at light; he is reading it. Inspired by quantum biology, Everett’s most recent body of work is shaped by his research on the interplay between light and living beings, particularly the relationship between ultraviolet light, photons, and physiology. Pointing to the infra-visible electromagnetic field and the vital information it contains, Everett uses painting as a medium to articulate the place between the visual and the non-visual. He considers light beyond its symbolic or illuminating functions, understanding it instead as an intrinsic aspect of consciousness, one that embodies regeneration and growth and enables us to perceive the invisible. In the passenger, Everett paints with far less gestural accumulation than previous bodies of work. He removes his autobiographical mark, or the story of each painting, thus allowing the paintings to breathe on their own. Subtle hints of horizon and cosmological space appear in atmospheric floating fields. Layers of caustic materials –sand, pigment and alcohol– build up the surface through a process of erasure and experimentation. Everett's abrasions resolve in glowing residues of intuitive actions and phantom gestures. Each painting becomes a receptacle of its environment, responding to the conditions of Everett’s Northern California studio, namely the quality of sunlight to which each painting was exposed. For Walt Whitman, the marker of a good poem was that it never ended. The paintings in the passenger elude quick answers; instead, they generate more questions with each viewing. One might loop back again and again and again, and find new readings. Language only helps us begin. What Everett does exists in a place we reach for in silence. Request Preview Read Press Release location provided by event source: "10 Hawthorne St, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA" ―――――――――― SF Stuff To Do