VERON ENNIS
Veron Ennis has a respect for her paint that carries equal weight to her plans for it. There appears, in her work, to be a dialogue between artist and medium throughout the painting process in which each has a say. The colors may impose their will over the artists emotional decisions, and the artist may leap-frog that will and in turn inspire her pigmented partner to guide them, in tandem, elsewhere still.
But it’s the initial respect that gives her work that joyous edge one finds in any dynamic partnership. The rewards of which are reaped by the viewer who appreciates the beautiful balance found in cooperative chaos born of symbiotic synergy.
VERON ENNIS
Veron Ennis was born and raised just outside of Washington D.C., in Virginia. She paints contemporary, unconventional landscapes of vast vistas with natural and manmade elements.
Her technique is comprised of a balanced combination of graceful, yet unpredictable, applications of paint. These layers are spontaneous and tend to direct the composition after discovering their outcome. Careful masking of additional painted layers and even hand drawn elements make distinct visual statements finalizing the painting. Long pulls of paint using trowels and squeegies in contrasting vibrant color create long mountains, wide valleys, and expansive skies in what look like panoramic silhouettes. Hand-drawn minimalist geometry, symbols and structures, is integral to each composition, as well, tying a sign of humanity into her representation of nature. She is inspired by her local landscape, travel, theology, geometry, and the concept of time.
Ennis marries painting with sculpture by presenting her paintings as a structure. Her transformative cube sculptures are explained by the Baker Museum, Naples, FL. "(Ennis's) sculptures are comprised of six paintings on wood panels hinged together to form a cube, which can balance on any of its corners, edges or planes. When unlatched, the structure unfolds to be exhibited on a wall with any orientation."
ABOUT HER WORK, Ennis states, “Throughout time, ideas have been communicated through symbols. I have a love for this universal communication and expression. In modern art, I love the paring down of elements in a composition in order to deliver a message in a minimalistic way. I create my landscapes using symbolic elements that are combined with careful intention to communicate the beauty, the infinite love, and the wonder of this life we all share.”
Ennis’ work has been published in British Vogue, Art Districts, Portfolio, House of Coco, and numerous other publications. She has exhibited her works in London, New York, and Miami and is found in private collections around the world.
Ennis’s work is influenced by artists such as Agnes Martin, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Barnett Newman, and Corita Kent. She is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, with a degree in graphic design. She has been a curator for two galleries, has been on exhibition committees, has independently curated for universities, galleries, and art centers, has dedicated time to host art talks at her studio, and written for several art magazines.
Also a founding member of MAMA (Movement of Aleatoric Modern Artists), part of Ennis’ technique depends on the chance application of her medium. “Falling in and out of control of the work energizes the composition and pushes compositional boundaries,” says Ennis
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Gueardians East (FOLDED)
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Ghost Panels
Trying to Think
Mila Bridger Photography
Terrace
Terrace
Transference
Tranceference
Cube, Transference
Chroma-25
Cube Construct II (open)
Chroma-17
Cube Construct II (closed)
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SOLD
Scaffold
Progress
Progress
Reverie
Reverie
Life
Life
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Winter
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Kyoto Lens Flare
Dyed in the Wool
