Spotlight Artist

Beverly Ress

South
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Window

Foggy window with blurred view of plants and sunlight outside.

colored pencil and oil pastel on vellum film

Corner

Small window with outdoor view, light shadows and soft pink wall in minimal room.

colored pencil and oil pastel on vellum

DreamWall

Art collage with translucent papers, nature photos, sketches, and abstract patterns on white background.

colored pencil and oil pastel on papers and vellum film

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Artist Statement

 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.

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