Curated by painter, Heidi Hahn, "Everyone We Know is Here" is an eclectic and thought-provoking selection of works by former Fine Arts Work Center Fellows. You can see a thoughtful review of the exhibit by Abraham Storer here, as well as some reflections by me, and other Fellows, on our time at the FAWC here.

"Cast in Shadow", an independent exhibit held at Klagsbrun Studios, in Georgetown, Washington DC, April 22 - May 15. More images here

A Chroma Projects solo exhibition in Charlottesville, VA. I am thrilled to present my newest work, focusing on light, shadow, dreams and memories.

My drawing, "Red Giant", included in the exhibition of Individual Artist Award recipients, 2021, in the galleries at BWI Airport. Grateful for my fifth award from the Maryland State Arts Council.

My exhibit, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi at the College of Southern Maryland, runs from February 10 - March 19, with an artist's lecture on February 11 at 3:pm.

From January 23 - February 21, work by Jonathan Monaghan, Beverly Ress, John Figura, Kevin Mitchell, Manuel Navarrete, Peter Dueker, Jeff Andrews, and Adam Bradley. Digital, sculptural, drawing, painting, photography and ceramics. In Salve Regina Gallery, on the Campus of Catholic University, an easy walk from the Brookland metro stop.

School 33 Art Center's 40th Anniversary Exhibition runs through January 11, 2020. Strong show of work by over 40 artists, in a wide variety of media - including 2 of my newest drawings.

I've been going to the National Museum of Health and Medicine about twice a week for the last several years, poking through their collections, and finding fascinating things to draw. This article about my, and others, work there was published in October, 2019.

Finished this folded print over the summer. It was printed by wonderful artist and master printer, Yar Koporulin

From October 15th 2018 until April 10th 2019 the “Hope is Maybe” project, which includes one of my images, will be exhibited at Munich’s University for Philosophy (Hochschule für Philosophie). The exhibition will travel to Regensburg’s Technical University (OTH, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg) where it will be seen from November 11th 2018 through December 20th, 2017.
A catalog of the project is due to be released during the month of October.

I am almost done with the multi-color lithograph I've been working on with Scip Barnhart, at Georgetown. Second state posted here - only 2 more colors to go!

I will be showing a bird drawing - and hopefully a print! - with Chroma Projects in Charlottesville, opening June 1. It is called 'Exaltation of Larks (putting a bird on it)'.

Later this spring, one of my drawings will become part of a project at the Munich airport, called 'Hope is Maybe...'
The drawing will be reproduced at a large scale, and paired with a quote from an immigrant, about what hope means to him/her. I'm really pleased to have my work included in this very humanitarian project.

Twelve of my drawings are on exhibit at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, now through May 4.

I'm currently working with Uprise Art, an experimental gallery format based in New York.

This very nice mention, of the group show at Rush Corridor Arts in Brooklyn, came out in the national publication September 14.

Opening Saturday, September 16, 6-9:pm at c.d.edwards studio: 716 Monroe St., NE (Brookland) Washington, DC - #9, right at the Brookland metro. Including work by Fabiola Alvarez, Cheryl Edwards, Eve Hennessa, Mary Higgins, Isabel Manalo and Beverly Ress.

Opening Sunday, September 10, 4-6:pm at Rush Corridor Gallery, 334 Grand Ave., Brooklyn, NY - a group exhibit, including the work of Jane Ingram Allen, Claudia Alvarez, Edward Burtynsky, Juanli Carrion. Uno Chaudhuri, Richard Estrin, Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez, Valerie Hegarty, Robin Holder, Brece Honeycutt, Oliver Kelhammer, Jan Mun, Portia Munson, Florence Neal, Beverly Ress, and Marina Zurkow

Juried by the wonderful Aneta Georgievska-Shine, this national group exhibit opens Saturday, September 9, 6-8:pm at the Allegany County Arts Council in Cumberland, MD

A review by Mark Jenkins of this group show at the Arlington Arts Center, which continues through October 1

Baltimore show with Mike McConnell, Jerry A. Gilmore, Beverly Ress, Mary Anne Arntzen, LaToya Hobbs, how-welltoons, Val A. Smith. Opening reception July 8, 5-8:pm, at Max Gallery 126 N. Madeira Street, Baltimore, MD 21231.

An exhibit of the work of artists who combine disciplines - Stephen Towns (Art + History), Alyssa Dennis (Art + Architecture/Ecology), Will Connally (Art + Literature), Lorenzo Cardim (Art + Dance), Miriam Simun (Art + Botany), Neil Feather (Art + Music), Catherine Pancake (Art + Film/Ecology), Brian Davis (Art + Technology), Salvatore Pirroke (Art + Architecture/Sound) and me. With an opening June 24, 6-9:pm, at 3550 Wilson Blvd Arlington VA 22201

My work is included in this exhibit, which also features the work of Susan Hostetler and Dalya Luttwak - at the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery in the Silver Spring Civic Center. Opening party: June 16, 6-8:pm Come on by!

Thoughtful review from Erin Devine - thanks!

Drawn Out, Drawn Over: Mapping the Territory of Experience
January 16 – March 11, 2017
Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD

Read it here!

Cut, featuring Ed Bisese, Maelle Doliveux, Bhavna Mehta, Beverly Ress, Leslie Shellow and Eric Standley, opens Friday, December 9, 6-8:pm. More info at Reston Arts.

A group drawing exhibit at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, curated by Dita Amory, Acting Associate Curator in Charge, Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Art by: David Ambrose, Cynthia Back, Ken Buhler, Beth Caspar, Gail Flanery, Felipe Goes, Keiko Hara, Carter Hodgkin, Meredith Hoffheins, Katherine Jackson, Kumi Korf, Jiri Kornatovsky, Karen Helga Maurstig, Jim Napierala, Florence Neal, Susan Newmark, Paula Overbay, Beverly Ress, Taney Roniger, Donna Ruff, Andra Samelson, Claudia Sbrissa, Robert Schwinger, Audrey Stone, Martin Zet

Please join us for the reception on Sunday, June 12, at 4:pm!

'Ladies First' includes the work of 8 women - Carol Barsha, Raya Bodnarchuk, Cianne Fragione, Emily Francisco, Janis Goodman, Tazuko Ichikawa, Linn Meyers, and myself. It runs through July 16, 2016 at Gallery Neptune Brown on 14th St.

An exhibit at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, featuring my drawings and the work of some recent Virginia Tech Industrial Design students. The exhibit runs from March 3 to April 21, 2016.

A group exhibit about bugs, that includes my drawing of a cicada: Feb.11 - March 27

My solo exhibit The World is a Narrow Bridge in the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, has been reviewed by Hyperallergic and The Washington Post

My exhibit, The World is a Narrow Bridge: Drawings by Beverly Ress, opens at the beautiful AU Museum at the Katzen Arts Center on Saturday, November 7, and runs through December 13. It is curated, with an essay, by Aneta Georgievska-Shine. Come enjoy the opening, and see the other late fall solos by Micheline Klagsbrun, Susanne Kessler, Titus Kaphar, Francis Cape & Harmony Hammond, Joe White, and designers Graham & Pekala!

The first annual exhibition, including both invited and juried artists, at the Athenaeum in Alexandria. Jack Rasmussen is the juror - and my drawing Koan won the Invitational Prize. September 10 - October 25, 2015.

The show opens Thursday, July 16, 6-9:pm in both the Decker and Meyerhof Galleries at MICA. Three of my drawings and the work of 54+ other artists will be on view!

My small untitled etched and laser-cut print is included in the 25th Anniversary 100 Works on Paper Benefit at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn. The exhibit runs April 10 - May 10 with a culminating benefit sale on Saturday, May 16. You can see many of the pieces here.

My bird drawings will make up one of two solo shows, opening April 16. The opening reception for Rara Avis / Beverly Ress, Langley Spurlock + Martin Tarrat is Sunday, April 19, beginning at 4:pm. I will give a talk about my work on Sunday, May 3, at 3:pm. A guided tour of The Winged Bestiary an Abcedarium of Feathered Nonsense with Langley Spurlock and Martin Tarrat, will take place on May 21 at 7 pm, and May 31 at 3 pm.

The LOC has just acquired the print portfolio, Outside the Margin, published by Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. It includes one of my prints, as well as work by Maria Barbosa, Scip Barnhart, Chayo Chevez, Pepe Coronado, Rosemary Cooley, Georgia Deal, Donald Depuydt, Deron DeCesare, Susan Due Pearcy, Melissa Ezelle, Jenny Freestone, Susan Goldman, Marty Ittner, Pauline Jakobsberg, Ron Meick, Lee Newman, Sarah Noreen, Judith Nulty, Heather O’Hara, Dennis O’Neill, Margaret Adams Parker, Gretchen Schermerhorn, Elzbieta Sikorska, Terry Svat, Helga Thomson, Vicky Vogl, Ellen Winkler, Max Karl Winkler, and Clare Winslow.
Ho! Ho! Ho!

So excited to get a grant to draw in the collections of these guys! I'll be spending a couple of weeks in their archives, over the course of the next several months.

Perspectives - the yearly GWU publication from the Department of Fine Art and Art History includes an article about my residency during the 2013-14 school year - pp 22-27

I will participate with 4 other artists - Betsy Packard, Emily Piccirillo, Mark Behme, and Pam Betts - in a neighborhood open studio. Maps and more info HERE

I have a drawing in this show, which has a lot of wonderful work, and is a great fundraiser for the gallery. See a preview of the work on exhibit here

Washington Post February 28, 2014

Washington City Paper February 10, 2014

This came out: Slippage, no. 2, Winter 2014 - a publication about the confluence of science and art.

A drawing show at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at the Smith Center on U St. in DC. Work by Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lee Gainer, Yaroslav Koporulin, Beverly Ress, and Jowita Wyszomirska. The opening reception is Friday, January 17, from 7-9. There will be an artists' talk on Saturday, February 22, at 3:30

My work is included, as one of eleven 'anchor artists', in this open community exhibition. Schema Projects is focused on works on paper, and run by wonderful artist, Mary Judge. It's located at 92 St Nicholas Ave (between Hart and Suydam) in Brooklyn.

The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, at George Washington U. has invited me to be one of three 2013-2014 Resident Artist/Scholar Fellows!
The other two are Sarah O’Halloran, and Stephen Wade.
Now in it's second year, the fellowship provides a platform for resident artists/scholars to work together with a small group of GW faculty and students, as well as other members of the Washington, DC arts community. The Fellows will produce new work and/or scholarship, present at least one public lecture, regularly interact with graduate and undergraduate students, and participate in activities with GW faculty in the Incubator Studio Fellowship Program and others in the GW arts community.

My drawing, "Bananas", is included in this exhibit at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The Guest Curator is Laura Phipps -
Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

I have one small drawing in this show, which has a lot of wonderful work, and is a great fundraiser for the gallery. See a preview of the work on exhibit here

Thank you MSAC for the Individual Artist Award for 2013!

My work is included with that of over 40 Washington artists in two spaces creating DCAC’s new exhibition which declares that there is a distinct Washington School of art and offers a manifesto to prove it!

Artnight is a huge exhibit - over 250 pieces - of some wonderful Washington/Baltimore artists. Sales benefit the Washington Project for the Arts. Two of my layered drawings are included.

Winging It
Colby Caldwell, Todd Forsgren, Justin Gibbens, Megan Greene, Jenny Sidhu Mullins, Roger Tory Peterson, and Beverly Ress
The opening is Friday, June 15, 6-8:pm at Heiner Contemporary in Georgetown.
You can get a sneak peek at the work here

I'm exhibiting my diptych drawing, Pink Wing, at the McLean Project for the Arts, along with the work of about 27 other mid-Atlantic artists - a celebration of the exhibition history of this beautiful, and wonderfully curated space. The show runs from April 19 - June 2, with a reception and curator's talk on April 19th, from 7-9:pm. The exhibit is curated by Deborah McLeod, Andrea Pollan, Sarah Tanguy, and Nancy Sausser.

My print, D(r)ying Leaf, is a part of this terrific exhibit and sale to benefit the programs at the wonderful Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn. The opening reception takes place on Friday, April 13, from 6-8:pm. And the benefit sale - for ticket holders only - is Saturday, May 19 at 6:pm. There's always a lot of great work at this show - it's a gem!