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Kirsten Everberg

Kirsten Everberg is an American painter. She was born in southern California on June 23rd 1966, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work consists primarily of a complex layering of oil and water based paint on gessoed wood panels. She also makes works on paper, and printed engravings. Her work investigates time and memory, and the nature of truth. The nature of her practice - layering wet paint on wet over photographic projection - results in a constant tension between representation and abstraction that shifts based on the viewer's distance from the work.

In her early career Kirsten Everberg apprenticed in costume design in the film industry, rising from assistant to costume designer. She designed several notable films including Don Juan de Marco with Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway, and Fear, starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. After Crow, City of Angels, she shifted to her second career, going back to school to study Painting at UCLA in Westwood Los Angeles, where she gained a masters in Art. In 2001 she joined Brian Butler's gallery 1301pe and began a continuing series of solo and group shows. In 2003 she joined Gallerie Hussenot in Paris.