ARTIST: Everett Mayo

Everett Mayo has been an exhibiting painter and printmaker since 1966 and teacher of art, design, and art history in various capacities since 1968. He has worked as a curator and gallerist in both public and private sectors since 1968, and as Incept Coordinator in 1974 helped start Pratt Institute’s Utica Division.

Tenured professor 1994, now retired, he came to NC Wesleyan in 1992 and built the following: a Studio Art Minor; collaborating with the architect Bill Dove, designed the Four Sisters Gallery of Self-Taught Visionary [Outsider] Art [including the Robert Lynch Collection of Outsider Art] and the continuing development of that permanent collection; and a year-round exhibition program in the college’s Mims and Civic galleries.

Since the eighties pattern has been thematically central to my painting…whether inspired by painterly intuition, indirectly Islamic Sufist design, ancient Greek motifs, Medieval Illumination, Irish interlacement, historic nineteen century iron work or the formal grid. Over the years a repetitious labor-intensive approach has been my modus operandi whether impasto oil, acrylic or extruded acrylic. This exhibition will feature selections emphasizing patterns and the evolution of such concerns over time.