Untitled
1972
A luminous, disc-shaped sculpture in cast polyester resin by Frederick Eversley, featuring a concave parabolic form that refracts and concentrates light through its translucent body. The piece exhibits a soft rose-pink to iridescent hue with warm amber highlights visible deep within its interior, characteristic of Eversley's signature optical investigations. Mounted on a dark rectangular base, the work demonstrates Eversley's mastery of the parabolic lens form, creating an immersive play of light and reflection. This sculpture exemplifies his decades-long exploration of energy, optics, and the physics of light as artistic medium.
- Medium
- Cast polyester resin
Notes
Frederick Eversley is known for his cast resin parabolic lens sculptures, which he has been creating since the late 1960s. This work appears to be a solid parabolic disc form — one of his most iconic formats. Eversley, an aerospace engineer turned artist, pioneered the use of industrial polyester resin as a fine art medium. The dark display base appears custom-made for the piece.
Spotted works by Frederick Eversley
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Larry Bell
American · b. 1939
Bell is a central figure of the California Light and Space movement who works with glass and vacuum coated surfaces to create translucent geometric forms that capture, refract, and shift light in a manner directly comparable to Valentine's cast resin discs. His minimal geometric sculptures share the same luminous optical depth, iridescent color shifts, and large scale presence.
Peter Alexander
American · b. 1939
Alexander was a key peer of Valentine who also pioneered cast polyester and epoxy resin sculpture in California during the 1960s and 1970s, producing translucent geometric forms with glowing warm amber, pink, and iridescent hues that emerge from deep within the material. His work shares the same medium, optical luminosity, warm color palette, and Light and Space sensibility as Circle.
John McCracken
American · b. 1934
McCracken was a fellow California Light and Space and Minimalist sculptor whose highly polished resin and fiberglass geometric works share Valentine's focus on saturated color, reflective optical surfaces, and the interaction between form and ambient light. Both artists pursued a meditative, luminous geometric abstraction rooted in West Coast Minimalism of the same era.
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