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Beverly Ress

Tephra ICA at Signature

October 15, 2026 – February 10, 2027

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Introduction

Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) presents a solo exhibition of work by Maryland-based artist Beverly Ress.

Tephra ICA at Signature, located at the Signature apartment building (11850 Freedom Dr, Reston, VA) is an innovative satellite gallery space that presents a year-round schedule of exhibitions featuring work by local and regional artists as selected by Tephra ICA curatorial staff. Visitors are welcome Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm. Free and open to the public.

Tephra ICA at Signature is provided in partnership with BXP and Bozzuto, and generously sponsored by Reston Community Center.

Beverly Ress - Exhibitions - Tephra ICA
Beverly Ress - Exhibitions - Tephra ICA

Beverly Ress grew up in Cleveland and New Jersey. She received an AB in Fine Arts from Earlham College in Indiana and an MFA in Sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

Ress' drawings have been featured in solo exhibitions at The Katzen Museum in Washington, DC, the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University, and The Kentler international Drawing Space in Brooklyn, among others.

Her work has been included in national invitational drawing shows at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, and in many other group exhibitions, nationally and internationally.

In 2024, Ress’ drawings were featured in New American Painting.

She has received five Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, a United States Artists project grant, and was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center.

Her work is mainly focused on carefully-observed representational drawing.

She lives and works in Silver Spring, MD.

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