Everette Ball

July 13–August 26, 2023
Gallery entrance displaying two walls and thirteen colorful drawings. Eight drawings of varying sizes hang on the right back wall. On the left wall five drawings hang in identical sizes. Below the top far right drawing hangs a small poem on blank white paper.

Everette Ball, installation view, 2023.

Angled view of a freestanding gallery wall displaying five drawings of architecture and a drawing of a fire extinguisher. Above the fire extinguisher hangs a small poem. On the back wall to the left hangs a blue reflective mixed media piece with cat ears. Behind the freestanding wall to the right is a large green painting of two bicycle wheels.

Everette Ball, installation view, 2023.

A forward facing view of eight colorful drawings of varied sizes. The group of three to the left portray a globe, a dining table, and an abstract landscape filled with an array of shapes. Two smaller pieces hang towards the middle, the one to the left is filled with animals and the one to the right is of an interior space. The three pieces further to the right are all outdoor scenes with colorful figures.

Everette Ball, installation view, 2023.

A close up of a painting on paper hung on a brick wall. The painting shows three different flavored Hershey's bottles in front of a bright yellow background on a dark yellow foreground.

Everette Ball, Hershey’s Bottles: Chocolate, Strawberry, Caramel, 2019, colored pencil, acrylic paint, and marker on paper, 19 × 24 in.

A detailed drawing of nature and a blue sky surrounding different characters and objects, talking and interacting with the environment.

Everette Ball, The Playground (After Niki de Saint Phalle), 2021, colored pencil and marker on paper, 19 × 24 in.

Press Release

Opening reception: Thursday July 13, 6-8pm

White Columns is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by the New York-based artist Everette Ball. Ball is currently affiliated with Y.A.I. Arts (formerly H.A.I./Healing Arts Initiative), a creative studio that supports artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities in New York City.

Ball’s devotion to detail extends from his realistic landscape drawings to his fantastical paper mache sculptures. His primary subject is architecture – skyscrapers, bridges, amusement park rides, and freestanding sculptures. With patience and precision, Everette draws source images from his iPad in ink and colored pencil, leaving no brick, pipe, traffic light, or planter left behind. Subtle flourishes are as integral as signature features to a structure’s identity. He applies the same care to drawings of figure models, his grandmother, Venus Flytraps, “Sound of Music” posters, clowns, monsters, and other subjects.

Everette – who identifies as having a developmental disability – is a gifted world-builder, assembling a lexicon of expressions and visual tropes that are distinctly his. Spend time with Everette and you are sure to hear phrases like “The mouse is in the potatoes” and “There’s rainbow cake at the Plaza Hotel,” which invite you into his mind and appear peppered throughout his artwork like easter eggs. Everette’s humor and wild imagination are perfect foils to his methodical practice.

 

 

White Columns would like to thank Priscilla Frank and the staff of Y.A.I. for their support in putting together this exhibition.

For more information about Y.A.I, please visit: https://yaiarts.funraise.org

 

 

Everette Ball’s exhibition is a part of White Columns 2023 summer programs that focus on the work of artists who are currently represented in White Columns’ Curated Artists Registry. Founded in the early 1980s the Registry provides a platform for artists – of all kinds – currently without gallery representation in New York. The Registry currently includes the work of more than 500 individual artists. To learn more about the Registry and how to submit your work for consideration, please visit: registry.whitecolumns.org

For further information about this exhibition contact: violet@whitecolumns.org

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am to 6pm.

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Gallery entrance displaying two walls and thirteen colorful drawings. Eight drawings of varying sizes hang on the right back wall. On the left wall five drawings hang in identical sizes. Below the top far right drawing hangs a small poem on blank white paper.
Angled view of a freestanding gallery wall displaying five drawings of architecture and a drawing of a fire extinguisher. Above the fire extinguisher hangs a small poem. On the back wall to the left hangs a blue reflective mixed media piece with cat ears. Behind the freestanding wall to the right is a large green painting of two bicycle wheels.
A forward facing view of eight colorful drawings of varied sizes. The group of three to the left portray a globe, a dining table, and an abstract landscape filled with an array of shapes. Two smaller pieces hang towards the middle, the one to the left is filled with animals and the one to the right is of an interior space. The three pieces further to the right are all outdoor scenes with colorful figures.
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Everette Ball, installation view, 2023. (Gallery entrance displaying two walls and thirteen colorful drawings. Eight drawings of varying sizes hang on the right back wall. On the left wall five drawings hang in identical sizes. Below the top far right drawing hangs a small poem on blank white paper.)

Everette Ball, installation view, 2023. (Angled view of a freestanding gallery wall displaying five drawings of architecture and a drawing of a fire extinguisher. Above the fire extinguisher hangs a small poem. On the back wall to the left hangs a blue reflective mixed media piece with cat ears. Behind the freestanding wall to the right is a large green painting of two bicycle wheels.)

Everette Ball, installation view, 2023. (A forward facing view of eight colorful drawings of varied sizes. The group of three to the left portray a globe, a dining table, and an abstract landscape filled with an array of shapes. Two smaller pieces hang towards the middle, the one to the left is filled with animals and the one to the right is of an interior space. The three pieces further to the right are all outdoor scenes with colorful figures.)

Everette Ball, Hershey’s Bottles: Chocolate, Strawberry, Caramel, 2019, colored pencil, acrylic paint, and marker on paper, 19 × 24 in. (A close up of a painting on paper hung on a brick wall. The painting shows three different flavored Hershey’s bottles in front of a bright yellow background on a dark yellow foreground.)

Everette Ball, The Playground (After Niki de Saint Phalle), 2021, colored pencil and marker on paper, 19 × 24 in. (A detailed drawing of nature and a blue sky surrounding different characters and objects, talking and interacting with the environment.)