Beverly Ress

Region: South

Website: https://beverlyress.com/home.html

City / State: Silver Spring, MD

 These most recent drawings focus on several ideas, rather than the single subject matter on which my previous work focused. As I have become interested in exploring the haziness and nonlinearity of dreams and memories, vellum film has become my go-to surface. I continue to draw in a highly representational and closely observed mode, mostly in colored pencil, with the recent addition of oil pastels. I am curious about a drawing’s ability to exist in space, whether that’s folded into a corner, overlapping itself, or cascading down a wall onto the floor. Drawing representationally and observationally connects me to the physicality of the world; drawing as an exploration of ideas connects me to the continuity of the human experience.