Beresford, A Statement

My work often crystallizes at the intersection of image and language. I am interested in the clash, synergies and resonances that occur when the visual and the literary are juxtaposed.

The true narrative of each piece takes shape in spite of how it reads, what it says or doesn't say. Often texts are obscured, backward, upside down, ill-translated into Latin or Chitzinn language.

The materiality of my work is paramount: nuances of tone, qualities of texture, subtle physicality, are all central to each piece.

Mark-making, with all its plastic & kinetic possibilities, remains crucial.

Several of the works here (see SlideShow) are from a recent & ongoing body of work that uses the conventions of exhibition posters and book frontispieces to announce worldwide events and elements that we all commonly enjoy for free. The works in this series, (Free4All), are as much warnings of life’s passing us by as they are unbridled celebrations of life’s very temporality. The elements and events reflected upon in these pieces are not limited to the contemporary, the modern, nor the past. Each piece is unique, although for each theme, as in life, there are variations. The work is romantically nostalgic, time-worn, a bit ambiguous, – intimating at the infinite & unknowable with geeky sincerity.

In all my work I aim to construct conceptually rich, non-linear, visually poetic narratives that lovingly embrace impulses absurd & sacred – illustrating that there is, or might be, sublimity in both.

April, 2012