Kevin Jerome Everson

Ohio-born filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson has entered the second phase of his two-year residency with the Wexner Center, having completed a number of films including Rhino (2018), an experimental enactment of the last days of the 16th-century Duke of Florence, Alessandro de’ Medici. He’s now creating an ambitious new body of films focused on specific people, places, and histories of his hometown of Mansfield.

The first films in this series are IFO (2017), Round Seven (2018), and A Good Fight (2018). They cover subjects as varied as Mansfield boxer Art McKnight and his 1978 fight against Sugar Ray Leonard at the Hara Arena in Dayton, the closing of Mansfield Tire, and a famous alleged UFO sighting in the area. Everson is also working on a related, multichannel gallery installation, Richland Blue, featuring elements of each of the films as well as related objects and photographs.