Today we’d like to introduce you to Ennid Berger.
Ennid, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
Beginning in early childhood, I always loved to paint and draw. Although my earliest career goal was to be an artist, I got sidelined into academia and various careers including years as a teacher and later, as a lawyer. For the last twenty years, however, my work and creative energy have been all about art.
I am self-educated and widely read in art history. I have studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and studied painting and conceptual art with renowned contemporary New York painters including Robert Yasuda, Paul Pagk, Betty Holliday and Stan Brodsky.
I have studios on Key West and on Long Island. I work both as a painter and a photographer, and I am very interested in the intersection between the two mediums. My creative and imaginative work reflects my commitment to meditation as part of the artistic process.
I have exhibited extensively in both mediums, at museums and galleries, and I am also the founder and director of a group of 14 independent artists who have been meeting and exhibiting as the Critique Group of Long Island since 2009.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
I am an independent visual artist working in painting, photographic experimentation and mixed media assemblage. My work is focused on abstract compositions of space, light, and color, often considering the mental, spiritual and emotional energy of the “human condition.” I am a creative and prolific artist, always sketching, painting or printing silver gelatin photograms in my traditional darkroom. Currently, I have returned to my lifelong interest in drawing and painting faces, heads and the human figure.
I want people to look at my work, wonder about the process, be intrigued and think about the energy of the subject in space. I hope to make objects of beauty that are a relief from reality.
The sterotype of a starving artist scares away many potentially talented artists from pursuing art – any advice or thoughts about how to deal with the financial concerns an aspiring artist might be concerned about?
As the cost of materials goes up and up, I am struggling with this issue and have no answers.
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
My work can be seen on my website at www.ennid.com and on Instagram @ennidberger
Support my work by following me on Instagram, emailing me, and/or inviting me to exhibit.
Comments on Instagram are great input!
Contact Info:
- Website: ennid.com
- Email: ennidberger@gmail.com
- Instagram: @ennidberger
Image Credit:
Ennid Berger
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