Photographer. Artist. Textile Designer.
Compositions are intertwined collages of my creative passions:
Photographer- I explore macro perspectives of light, lines, and color contrast.
Artist- Visual imagery is conveyed by mark-making, hand-drawn motifs, watercolors, and digital printmaking.
Designer- I’m drawn to explore nature’s interaction with shapes and patterns.
As my artistic journey continues to evolve, I’ve developed a distinct curiosity and affection for the natural environment, expressing my amazements through abstract artistic expression. My mixed media visions are expressed through a detailed printmaking process and shared as fine art photography, custom wall murals, and textiles through my textile design studio, E’FLOMAE.
Verneda Lights is a visual artist/photographer and griot of the Gullahgeechee Nation, located in South Carolina’s Low Country, USA. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (MD), and Strayer University (MBA). She also holds a certificate in International Arts Management from the International Leadership Program in Visual Arts Management from Deusto University School of Business, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, and Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain). In addition to her career as an artist, Verneda is founder and CEO of E-graphX Omnimedia, a design firm and business consultancy located in Port Royal, SC.
Verneda is well-known for her Afro-surreal and Afro-futurist photomontages and collages. Last year, two of her photomontages were included in the “Portraits Americana: A 100 -Year Retrospective of Portraiture by American Photographers,” (group exhibit) at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art (St. Joseph, MO). Her exhibited works will be included in the Museum’s permanent collection of contemporary photography. Her work was shown in the “Seat at the Table” group exhibit at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute of the United State Senate, and her work will also be published in “Maintenant 13,” an international journal of Dada art and writing.
