April 25 - June 8, 2025
McKelvey Charitable Fund Gallery
Reception Saturday, May 10th 5-7PM
Born in the Southeast Texas town of Beaumont in 1950, David Everett has been fascinated from his earliest memories by the natural world. Along with his brother, Everett was drawn to the forests, swamps, bayous, marsh-covered plains and bays that lead this part of the state down to its coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. It was from this vantage point that he began a life-long process of restating his observations into a visual art that explores an allegorical interplay of both human and animal forms celebrating the natural history of a personal world.
Everett began his career as a sculptor after earning his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Texas at Austin. An Austin resident to this day, he has appeared in dozens of high-profile solo and group exhibitions, primarily in Texas and the Southwest, including multiple galleries in Dallas and Austin, as well as Chicago, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. He has created dozens of commissioned works, and his pieces appear in numerous corporate, public and private collections, including the National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole), The Witliff Collections, Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas), the Federal Reserve Bank (Dallas), and the Austin Museum of Art.
Everett’s creations have also been the subject of a book The Art of David Everett: Another World, by Becky Duval Reese, former director of the El Paso Museum of Art, and past president of the Texas Fine Arts Association, and his work graced the cover of the famed Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog (1989).
Artist Website: davideverett.com