New City Arts presents I Wish We Could Still Make Beautiful Paintings Of Muscular Horses, painting by Hank Ehrenfried.
New City Arts' Welcome Gallery
114 3rd St. NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902
First Fridays
November 4, 5:00–7:30 PM
Free and open to the public. All ages welcome.
Gallery Hours
12:00–4:00 PM, Monday–Friday
Sponsors
New City Arts First Fridays at Welcome Gallery is presented by Northwestern Mutual and sponsored by Foggy Ridge Cider.
Exhibition Statement (provided by the artist)
Painting is not a great release of stored energy for me; instead, it is the opposite of ecstasy. A great amount of energy is gathered, withheld and lost in the creation of a painting, and I control it consciously in this way. The painting becomes the byproduct of this compression. My body of work is the result of this consumption for its own sake, and the humor of a painting as a product of a process blurs the line between production and consumption.
About the Artist (provided by the artist)
Hank Ehrenfried is New Jersey born and raised but now resides in Charlottesville, VA. He received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA in 2014 where he studied painting and writing. He loves to laugh, paint and, most of all, laugh at paintings.
Images courtesy of the artist:
One very magical forest in the night, oil paint, 10x8 inches, 2015. Noise: Aaaahhhuhhnmah, oil paint, 9x12 inches, 2016.
