moving on

Sara Erenthal

in the plus/space: march 4 - April 16, 2017

Sara Erenthal shows paintings that illustrate seminal moment in her life. To the artist the vividness with which her memory recall them means that they were clearly central experiences in the making of the woman Sara Erenthal. 

There is the time her father locked her out on the balcony; the time when she ran away as a  very young child and found herself in the midst of immense traffic; the teacher who humiliated her in grade school, all this she has captured with her idiosyncratic lines that are half illustrations and half sophisticated renderings of a memory's capture and storage of unsettling and distressed moments. 

In the last of these seven paintings, made with acrylic on canvas, Sara Erenthal stands in front of her easel and paints - a tribute to the hard won present. 

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, the Greenwich Collection, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, and Humanities NY.