SALLY
VEACH
“Based on remembered natural landscapes, my work explores the sublime power of nature and our attempts to domesticate it.”
Sporta 1, 2022
24” x 18”, Oil on linen mounted on cradled wood panel
$350, purchase here
Transeo, 2022
24” x 24”, Oil on linen mounted on acrylic on canvas with collage
$800, purchase here
Transipcio Revolution 3, 2023
24” x 24”, Oil on canvas mounted on acrylic on canvas
$800, purchase here
Sporta 2, 2022
24” x 18”, Oil on linen mounted on cradled gesso panel
$350, purchase here
Transeo 2, 2022
24” x 24”, Oil on linen mounted on acrylic on canvas
$800, purchase here
Transipcio Revolution 2, 2023
24” x 24”, Oil on canvas mounted on acrylic on canvas
$800, purchase here
Sporta 4, 2023
24” x 18”, Oil on linen mounted on gesso panel
$350, purchase here
Transeo 3, 2022
24” x 24”, Oil on linen mounted on acrylic on canvas
$800, purchase here
Transipcio Revolution 4, 2023
24” x 24”, Oil on canvas mounted on acrylic on canvas
$800, purchase here
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FROM THE ARTIST
Based on remembered natural landscapes, my work explores the sublime power of nature and our attempts to domesticate it. In the Transeo and Transpicio series, I utilizing oils, acrylics, and collage to create paintings with expressive marks in vibrant, atmospheric colors. To me, the energy of the gesture is the embodiment of the power of the universe. The frame or edge of the painting is our attempt to domesticate the sublime. In the Sporta series, I cut former landscape paintings into strips and weave them into a basket pattern. Sporta is Latin for basket, and signifies our use of the natural world's resources for our own purposes. The Toombs Hollow paintings are representations of the energy of a specific natural area in the mountains of West Virginia and Ireland.
ABOUT SALLY VEACH
Sally Veach (b. Summit, NJ, 1962) is a newly juried studio artist at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA. Through paintings and drawings, she explores the sublime power of the natural world and humans’ place in nature. She conducted an inquiry into the cultural and ecological impact of her ancestors, who were Germanic settlers in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the 1700s and 1800s.
“Ghosts of a Forgotten Landscape: Paintings by Sally Veach” was exhibited at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia, from July 2019—March 2020. Her painting “Harvest Ghost” was acquired by the museum and is on view in the museum. Veach was a panelist for the discussion “Women in the Arts” with Kathryn Wat, Deputy Director/Chief Curator of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, Celeste Feta, Director of Education at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, and Nick Powers, Curator of Collections of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.
Veach has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Weir Farm National Historic Monument, and Lodestar School of Art, Ireland, among others. Her paintings are held in numerous private collections and the collection of the City of Alexandria. She has exhibited at Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC; The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA; Anne Neilson Fine art, Charlotte, NC; The Haen Gallery, Asheville, NC; Anne Irwin Fine Art and Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta, GA; and Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, and several other venues.