Cara Enteles Artist's Statement and CV Cara Enteles is best known for her nature, landscape paintings on Aluminum and plexiglas panels. She has developed a unique technique that combines silkscreen printing and oil painting on theses industrial substrates.
The choice of these surfaces is deliberate. The aluminum reflective ground, changes with the light, mimicking the natural world. The acrylic is built up in transparent layers painting on multiple sides to create great depth.
"I am influenced by Turner and the Hudson River school, looking for a modern way to create depth and light in landscape. Working on these surfaces lets the substrate become a more active part of the message." Underlying these seemingly beautiful paintings, Enteles infuses her thoughts on man vs. nature and the conflicts that ensue. "In my mind the trees and plants of the paintings represent nature as a being. They exude power that man continually tries to manipulate."
Enteles has long been addressing environmental issues that plague our natural world. Oil spills, colony collapse disorder, and fracking are some examples, but she hopes to present it in a positive light. "I aim to be an advocate for nature."
—Cara Enteles with Sara Nightingale
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
MoOD Fair Brussels, Solo Booth awarded, Brussels, BE, September 2016
Sara Nightingale Gallery, The Mirrored Garden, Watermill, NY November 2015
Brooklyn Oenology, Gone Wild, Brooklyn, NY September 2015
Amy Simon Fine Art, Cara Enteles: Mirror to Nature, Westport, CT September 2013
Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sheen, Watermill, NY June 2013
Sara Nightingale Gallery, Buzz Saw, Watermill, NY August 2008
Viveza Gallery, Seattle, WA, March 2007
Mulry Fine Art, Spider Stories, West Palm Beach, FL, January 2006
Sara Nightingale Gallery, If a Butterfly... , Watermill, NY, 2004
Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., Light Lovers, New York, NY, 2003
DVAA Gallery, Organic Graffiti, Narrowsburg, NY, 2001, Mindscapes 1998Selected Group Exhibitions:
KBFA, Flower Power, Larchmont, NY July 13- August 26th, 2016
The Painting Center, Retrieval of the Beautiful, NYC, June 21-July 16, 2016
Amy Simon Fine Art, Good Nature, Westport, CT March12-April 23 2016
London Art Fair, Four Square Fine Arts, London January 21-24, 2016
Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, Art from the Boros III, NYC July 23- Aug 15 2015
Amy Simon Fine Art, Big Fat Summer Show, July 11- August 29 2015
Sara Nightingale Gallery, Reinventing the Helm, Watermill, NY July- Aug 2015
London Art Fair, Four Square Fine Arts, London January 20-25, 2015
NURTUREArt benefit (invitational), Pierogi Boiler, Brooklyn, NY November 2014
Four Square Fine Arts, Surface and Depth, London, UK October 2014
Fresh Paint Gallery, Summer Solstice, Culver City, CA June 2014
Amy Simon Fine Art, Summer Rotation, Westport, CT July 2014
The Last Brucennial, The Bruce High Quality Foundation & Vito Schnabel, NY, 2014
The London Art Fair, Four Square Fine Arts, London January 15-19, 2014
Parsons Alumni Exhibition, Sheila Aronson Galleries, October 2013
Sloan Fine Art, Undertow 3, New York, NY March 16-April 12, 2013
HVCCA, Peekskill Project V, Mezzanine Gallery, Sept 29- Dec 16, 2012
Islip Art Museum, The Garbage Barge Revisited, June 13-Sept 2, 2012
The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, Wreath Interpretations, Dec-Jan 2011-12
Wave Hill, Hive Culture: Captivated by the Honeybee, Sept-Dec 2011
Four Square Fine Arts, Nature Matters, UK September 2011
Sara Nightingale Gallery, What's out There, Watermill, NY August 2011
Amy Simon Fine Art, Summer Rotation, Westport, CT July 2011
Emily Amy Gallery, Down the Rabbit Hole, Atlanta, GA 2010
Amy Simon Fine Art, The Nature of it All, Westport, CT, June 2010
Mulry Fine Art, Timber, Palm Beach, FL March 2010
Prozcess, Lyonsweir Gallery, New York, NY 2009
Metaphor Contemporary Art, Treasure Chest, Brooklyn, NY December-Jan 2009
Emily Amy Gallery, Nature Interpreted, Atlanta, GA November 2008
Art Gate Gallery, Leave Nature to Nature, New York, NY July 2008
Garson Baker Fine Art, Small Wonders, New York, NY June 2008
Metaphor Contemporary Art, Back to the Garden, Brooklyn, NY June 2008
Iona College, Takes on Landscape, New Rochelle, NY September 2007
Pentimenti Gallery, The song sings itself, Philadelphia, PA July 2007
AidanSavoy Gallery, Deep End, New York, NY, May 2007
Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Embassy Port Louis, Mauritius 2007-2009
Morpeth Gallery, The Contemporary Show, Hopewell, NJ 2006
Mulry Fine Art, Inaugural Exhibition, West Palm Beach, FL, 2005
Julie Baker Fine Art, In the Garden, Grass Valley, CA, 2005, 2003
ADA Gallery, June Anniversary Show, Richmond, VA 2005
Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., Layered New York, NY, December 2002
MMC Gallery, A Closer Examination, New York, NY, October 2002
Sara Nightingale Gallery, ...in residence Watermill, NY, August 2002
Alexandria Museum of Art, September Exhibition, LA curator Beth Handler 98&99Public Collections:
WilmerHale, New York, NY
Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London
Microsoft, Atlanta, GA
PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY
Hewitt, New York, NY
Tiffany & CompanySelected Public Commissions:
Norwegian Cruise Lines, Miami, Florida
Hilton Cabana, Miami Beach, Florida
Intercontinental Hotel Suzhou, China
Intercontinental Hotel Park Lane, London
Royal Caribbean International, Oasis of the Seas
Royal Caribbean International, Navigator of the SeasAwards & Honors:
2011 Invited Artist to Singinawa Tiger Preserve, Kanha National Park, India
2005 Fellowship to The Julia & David White Artists' Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
2004-2008 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts studio
2002 recipient of the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Fellowship for Visual ArtistsPress & Publications:
NY Times, Things to Do in Connecticut, Amy Simon Fine Art, March 10, 2016
Trendease.com Newsletter #524 August 2015
NY Times, Photo image listing Sheen, May 26, 2013
Resurgence Magazine, Lessons from the Bees, May/June 2012
Hive Culture catalog, Wave Hill, Jennifer McGregor & Gabriel de Guzman, 2011
Hamptons Art Hub, Bees, Trees and Plexiglass Pat Rogers, November 3rd, 2011
The Atlantan, September 9, 2010, Felicia Feaster, "Art Attack"
The Gardener's Eden, http://www.thegardenerseden.com/?tag=cara-enteles
Wonderbook, The Art on Oasis of the Seas, Art Actually 2009
Art Exit Magazine, July 2008 artists of the month
The Brooklyn Rail, July 2008, James Kalm, " Garden of Chill"
New American Paintings, The 2006 Mid-Atlantic Edition, a juried show in print
Art in Embassies Exhibition catalog, Port Louis, Maurtiius 2007
The New York Times, Ken Johnson, December 20th, 2002
The Times Herald-Record, Stephen Israel, "Organic Graffiti unites industry and
nature "May 20, 2001
Alexandria Museum of Art, September Competition Exhibition Catalog, 1998-99
Sullivan County Democrat, Mindscapes Show June 9th, 1998
The River Reporter, Mindscapes on View June 11th, 1998Education:
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Parsons School of Design, BFA, New York, NY