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Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was a German-American artist who specialized in romanticized landscapes of the American West. When he was just two years old, his family emigrated from his birthplace of Solingen, Germany to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he spent the majority of his formative years. At the age of twenty-three, Bierstadt traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany and then to Switzerland and Italy where he studied art informally for about four years. Read More

Mariana Monteagudo, born in 1976 in Venezuela, is a Miami-based artist best known for her mixed media sculptures. Monteagudo explores thrift stores and even her neighbors’ trash to find used and discarded materials, which she transforms into figural sculptures. She describes herself as living “in a constant process of upcycling and reuse… continuously seeking, always resuscitating, permanently combining and thinking ahead of time, and placing her faith into the most unimagined creations.” Read More

Leza McVey (1907-1984) was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1927 to 1932, where McVey experimented with sculpture and ultimately graduated with a degree in crafts. She met her husband and fellow artist William McVey at the Cleveland Institute; they married in 1932 and moved to a farm just outside of Cleveland. At the farm, McVey accidentally drank unpasteurized goat’s milk and contracted brucellosis. Read More

For two days in January of 1972, the Everson hosted New York City-based artist John Fischer for an unusual exhibition and event centered on baking bread. Titled Love Me, Love My Bread, the program embraced the idea of bread as sculpture and baking as performance art. Read More

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) is considered one of the most prolific American Impressionists of the late nineteenth century. Born in Nineveh, Indiana, as the son of an aspiring entrepreneur, Chase experienced a very nomadic childhood. Upon his family’s move to Indianapolis, he began to experiment with painting and drawing and developed a love for the artistic practice. After apprenticing with local artists Barton S. Hays (1826-1914) and Jacob Cox (1810-1892), Chase moved to New York City, and in 1869, enrolled at the New York Academy of Design. Read More