Hank Ehrenfried

These collages are then pinned and taped to the walls of his studio and painted from life as trompe l'oeil. But Ehrenfried's approach is not photorealistic. Imagery goes in and out of focus in his brushwork. Crisp edges inhabit the same world as expressive and felt interiors and figures. His loyalty is not to exactly how it was but to the affective and the procedure of observation. The paintings themselves do not confess to ownership of this imagery and their origins, only the plain observation of their time stuck to the studio wall.

Born in New Jersey in 1992, Hank Ehrenfried holds a BFA in painting from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo exhibitions at AuxierKline (NYC), Quappi Projects (Louisville)  and Welcome Gallery (Charlottesville), as well as in group exhibitions at Semiose (Paris, FR), Fierman Gallery (NYC), Fredericks & Freiser (NYC), and Turley Gallery (Hudson, NY), among others. His work has been written about in Two Coats of Paint and Whitewall, as well as featured in New American Paintings Northeast Issue #164. Ehrenfried has completed residencies at The Macedonia Institute and Trestle Projects. He lives in Oklahoma City by way of Brooklyn.