Janos Enyedi was an internationally known artist whose paintings, sculpture and drawings celebrated his fascination with industrial landscapes and ports in the United States and Europe.
Growing up on Chicago's South Side, Enyedi was fascinated by the city's steel mills, assembly plants, and factories. Those memories, and impressions gathered during car trips through Rust Belt regions of the Midwest and East Coast, became his abiding inspiration. He studied at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL, and earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975 from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington D.C. He attended graduate school at Ohio University in Athens, OH. Mr. Enyedi served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1976.
Enyedi depicted scenes and eye-stopping details-real and imagined-he gleaned from ports, coal yards and steel mills. He was a pioneer in creating weighty, "fool the eye" sculptural assemblages which appeared to be made of heavy steel but were actually painted poster board. In more recent years, Enyedi explored photography-based digital printmaking of subjects such as the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine and ports on the East Coast and Great Lakes. His sculptures, assemblages, drawings, and photographs are in the collections of: the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; and the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA. His artwork was featured in the United States State Department's "Art in the Embassies," program for which he served as Ad Hoc Cultural Representative to the Ukraine in 2007. His works were also exhibited in U.S. embassies in Cambodia, Bolivia, France and Azerbejdzan. Over the course of his career, Enyedi's art was featured in scores of solo, two-person and group exhibitions in museums, public spaces and galleries in Washington, D.C, New York City, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Denver, Dallas, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Richmond, Budapest, Cologne, Berlin and South Korea. Enyedi's works are included in dozens of corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe.