Beverly Rayner has been building mixed media photographic constructions for over 30 years. She freely uses whatever type of photographic process best serves her purpose for each piece, including traditional black and white photographs, tintypes, daguerreotypes, Van Dykes, cyanotypes, lumens, cameraless, or digital images, as well as found photographs and negatives, even x-rays. Rayner frequently alters or physically manipulates the images through painting, peeling, cutting, embedding in wax, etc.
Rayner’s work is fascinated with the everyday workings of human nature. She mines the situations that reveal the interplay between the alternately humorous and dark corners of human experience, the uncertain moments when the logical and the inexplicable tease each other or the borders between fact and fiction blur. She is interested in how personal and cultural perspectives color our understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world we live in.
