“In her studio, Verba works steadily. Imperfection is an important part of her work. (...) she allows for leaks and digressions. In the smudges and specks of paint at the edges of Verba’s geometric parcels of colour, she reveals herself. (...) she paints in a trepidatious present. One that is notoriously messy. It leaks. It bleeds and smudges. Modernism is no longer a promise for the future; it’s poem of the past. In the process of painting Verba uses only one piece of tape to keep her colours in line, to build her rhythmic patterns. Through the leaks she winks at us. She knows the rebellious pigments will give her away. The totality of modernism is dead. And this contemporary world in which we find ourselves is overwhelmingly messy.”
- Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, States of Being; An Act of Wayfinding, Exhibition essay, Xpace, Toronto, 2016