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PREY
Caught in a
Web of Fragile Ecosystems
An Exhibit of New Work by Cara
Enteles
Enteles combines industrial materials with natural themes to visualize the
complex balance of predator/prey relationships. The works are visually striking;
depicting the formation and evaporation of interlocking biological systems on
aluminum. She abstractly relates the dramatic narrative of nature with
precarious compositions and a heightened color sense.
Beginning March 21st, 2007
Reception on Friday March 23rd, 6 – 10 p.m.
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Cara Enteles
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Biography
 In
her Pennsylvania shed turned studio, Enteles became interested in the
relationships in the natural world when as observed the complex interactions
between the resident spiders and moths. "I wanted to take a magnifying glass to
nature," she said. "When you’re surrounded by nature you can’t help but have a
huge respect for natural forces and what they can teach you." In her work the
symbiotic relationship between predator and prey is presented ominously, but
with a fascination that appreciates its
necessity. Enteles deals with creatures that are both menacing and
fragile. The web of a spider, an almost invisible and delicate killing trap, is
cautiously transposed on the web of the food chain and the exponential
ramifications of upsets to ecological systems, Enteles' Spider Series, inspired
by the children’s song “the Itsy, Bitsy Spider” turns the notion of the spider
as the hunter upside down. Here, the spider is the victim of weather, an
uncontrollable aspect of nature. Repeating spider and moth silhouettes interlock
in decaying networks, a nod to the power of uncertainty in such complicated,
interconnected arrangements. The fragile relationships between all of the
elements and the way they drip, slip and evaporate off of their surface, call to
question what holds this ecosystem together at all.
 Enteles's
works appear as delicate as the relationships they represent. But the aluminum
and Plexiglas on which she paints have the cold, impersonal surface of the
industrial world, which looms as a constant threat to nature. Surface plays an
important role in these works; their reflective materials interact with the
light in their environment, giving a surprising and unpredictable glow to the
work, which changes as the light does. The different stains and textures of
aluminum affect the mood of each piece, as light is dulled, absorbed or
reflected. Enteles says that "the industrial surfaces are used to contrast the
organic content, and add to the language of what paint can achieve on its own. I
wanted to beat up my medium and canvas just couldn't take it. I wanted to be
able to build up layers of paint as well as take them away." The reflective
surface of this microcosmic ecosystem causes it to be affected by the
environment in which it is placed.
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