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Cara Enteles, Gone Wild, Oil on acrylic panel, 48” x 43"[/caption]
The Sara Nightingale Gallery will open Cara Enteles, “Mirrors in the Garden,” on Saturday, November 14, from 5 to 7 p.m.
In this selection of recent paintings Ms. Enteles explores the impossibility of symmetry, order and exactness in nature. She seeks to illustrate the dichotomy between organic, natural growth and the human gardener's attempt to control it. An avid gardener herself, Ms. Enteles splits her time between New York City and a home in the Catskills where access to the surrounding wilderness informs her work. Ms. Enteles has long been addressing environmental issues that plague our natural world - oil spills, colony collapse disorder, and fracking are some examples - and her paintings allude to circumstances in which human activity threatens nature. Yet the work is neither sententious nor moralistic. In fact, the casual observer will find a collection of beautiful paintings of plants and animals, albeit with an unusual sheen in the surrounding water or an emphasis on “alternative pollinators” should the honey bees become extinct.
Ms. Enteles received her BFA from Parsons School of Design. She exhibits internationally and her work is held in private and public collections including Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Microsoft and WilmerHale. Her work has been shown at Wave Hill, The HVCCA and The Islip Art Museum. This will be her third solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition runs through December 14.
The gallery, with guest curator Karyn Mannix, will also present Stephanie Brody-Lederman: “Out Gallivanting,” which will also open Saturday.
Ms. Brody-Lederman’s paintings and mixed media works combine her observations and memories of visual occurrences with text gleaned from conversation, poetry and other sources. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including OK Harris, Musee Bourdelle in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art, NY and The Cooper Hewitt. Her work is held in public collections such as Tate London, The Brooklyn Museum and MoMa. “Dancing with Truffaut,” Brody-Lederman's solo exhibition at Guild Hall in East Hampton, is currently on view and will run through January 3.
The Sara Nightingale Gallery is located at 688 Montauk Highway in Water Mill. For more information, call (631) 793-2256 or saranightingale.com.
