As a father-and-son artist team, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne collaborated on hundreds of unique and complex works, now presented in a new book written by New York gallerist Evan Lobel in collaboration with Kelvin. A decade in the making, Alchemy: The Art of Philip and Kelvin LaVerne highlights the astonishing breadth and depth of the duo’s practice, which ranges from avant-garde furniture to sculpture and painting.
‘I opened my gallery Lobel Modern in 1998, and almost immediately I started showing works by the LaVernes,’ explains the gallerist. ‘Their works are unique and also very enigmatic; people would always ask me how they were made. And what the abstract patterns meant. To be honest, I didn’t have a good response to those questions at the time.’
