ennid berger
Born in Brooklyn, New York, before it was fashionable, Ennid Berger is a photographer, painter and writer who is based in New York and Key West, Florida. Like the reclusive Joseph Cornell, she grew up on Utopia Parkway in middle class Queens, and transformed the ordinary into her own mysterious world through her paintings, drawings, assemblages and photography. Her prints have been critically acclaimed and extensively exhibited at venues that include the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, Bloomingdale’s in Garden City, Long Island, and the Dana Gallery of Rutgers University. Her photographs are found in private collections throughout the Northeast, as well as in the permanent collection of the Zimmerli Museum of Art at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
With a creative soul, Ennid captures the raw energy of the city with a contemporary flair. Her neo-surrealistic images have a painterly aesthetic enhanced by her preference for the palette of grainy, high-speed black and white film. The resulting black and white pictures are reminiscent of Seurat’s black and white pointillist drawings, and invite you to enter a surreal world of flickering light and shadow. Phyllis Braaff, writing for the New York Times, called the artist’s print, “Delray Night #2”, a “major” piece that “achieves abstract surfaces through the use of light.”
Selected Exhibitions and Publications
Exhibitions
53rd Exhibition of Li Artists, 2009, Jeannie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
Contemporary Expressions of Photography, 2009, the Pen and Brush, NY, NY
Insights Into Suburbia, 2008, Rutgers University and Purdue University
Alpan Gallery, 2007, Huntington, New York
Publications
2007 Channel 21, the “Ticket”, 5/8/07
2001 NYTimes, 2/4/01, “Capturing the Seen and Unseen in Photographs”
2000 NYTimes, 11/19/00, “Exhibitions Embrace Diversity…”
2000 Newsday, 3/26/00, “Women and Work”
