Beverly Ress

Beverly Ress' work has been included in two national invitational drawing exhibits - Art on Paper at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC, and in the 10th National Drawing Invitational at the Arkansas Arts Center. In 2015 her solo show, “The World is a Narrow Bridge” was exhibited at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, and received a glowing review in the international art publication, Hyperallergic. She has also had recent solo exhibits at The NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, The Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University, and Chroma Projects Art Laboratory in Charlottesville, VA.Her drawings have been seen in group shows at Heiner Contemporary, Curator’s Office, and the (e)merge Art Fair in Washington, DC, Schema Projects and the Rush Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn, Central Booking in New York City, the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Liber Mundi in Antwerp, Belgium, Russell Projects in Richmond, VA, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.Ress’ drawings and prints are included in the collections of The Art Bank of Washington, DC, the Library of Congress, Georgetown University, The American University at the Katzen Arts Center, the Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltmiore, and many private collections.In addition to drawing in the collections of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, she has been a Resident Artist in the Bird Division of the National Museum of Natural History and at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.She has received a Pollock-Krasner Grant, four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, has been a finalist or semi-finalist for the Trawick Prize four times, and in 2008 and 2015 was selected as a semi-finalist for the Sondheim Prize. Way back in 1990-91 she was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.Ress draws from life in colored pencil on paper, and is interested in exploring ways of incorporating ideas from science into representational still life drawing. Her subject is mortality.Beverly Ress was born in Cleveland, OH in 1955. She received her MFA in sculpture from the Rinehart School of Sculpture, at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and her AB degree in Fine Arts from Earlham College in Richmond, IN. She resides in Silver Spring, MD.