Anne Beresford at Judi Rotenberg Gallery |
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| Monday, 30 January 2006 15:23 |
 Boston, MA- The Judi Rotenberg Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition for Anne Beresford. Beresford continues to explore the intersection of image and language in her latest body of work. The conceptual seed for Entwined is an exquisite speech from Shakespeare’s “King Lear”. Beresford’s new pieces, though born of this poetry, are not illustrative of it, but rather evocative of the dialectics set forth in Lear’s speech. Beresford writes, “I am interested in the harmonies and discords set up when you combine narrative and non-narrative modes of expression.” Beresford improvises upon these themes in oil, ink, paper and canvas. In this highly evocative body of new work, Beresford manages to overflow sparse compositions with emotion. Beresford’s paintings draw the viewer into the dual freedoms and frustrations of her subjects. In Homeward Bound the birds taking flight are still tethered to their belled cage. When looking at Beresford’s paintings, it is tempting to think of one’s own desire to fly as well as one’s earthly responsibilities. There is a loose quality to Beresford’s line that imbues her subjects with an airy dream-like quality, as if her subjects are arriving from the intangible place where dreams and poetry reside. Ghosted images reveal themselves in Beresford’s translucent universes. Her world is one of diaphanous landscapes documenting a state of constant metamorphosis. Her birds are always on the verge, never seeming settled.
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Beresford received a BA from Harvard University in Visual Art and Art History, and an MA/MFA from New York University in Theater and Print Making. Since moving to Boston she has taught at the Bow and Arrow Press, the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard, and at the Art Institute of Boston. Her work is represented by several public and private collections, including the Houghton Rare Book Library, Harvard University, Boston College, The New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library and The O’Riley Collection in LA. Visit: www.juridotenberg.comClick on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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