Barbara Pennington (1932-2013) exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Southeast, New York, and Connecticut. A diverse artist, Pennington is known for her expressive compositions and her vibrant and dramatic use of color. Her work evolved from impressionistic landscapes to abstract and the non-representational. Pennington’s later work deals with the aesthetics of art, her subjects being its elements — line, shape, color, texture, and space rendered in subtle nuances of light and shade. Her work is held in private collections in the United States and Europe. In 2014, her figurative masterpiece "Selma" was acquired by the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC.
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"My aim is for the work to be experienced in a
n unconscious way, bypassing the analytical and going straight to pure feeling—to a sense of beauty and joy."
— Barbara Pennington |