I’m Not the Only One is inspired by our current emotional, psychological, and practical transformation. It is an invitation to you, our circle of artists and visitors, both real and imagined. I’m not the only one wrestling with a sense of isolation, but what has surprised and sustained me in this time has been the connections in the face of the distances, social and otherwise. 

There is a Portuguese word, saudade [pron:saa·deidz], that does not exist in English. More nuanced than melancholy or bittersweet, saudade is a subtle yet enduring desire for something other than the present. Deep inside this word is the sense that the thing for which one longs may never be had again, while acknowledging that longing for the past would detract from the anticipation for the future. Saudade is likely what most of us are feeling right about now.

— Frish Brandt

This online presentation, and the exhibition in our gallery space, will be on view through October 23.

To schedule an appointment to visit the exhibition in-person, please email inquiries@fraenkelgallery.com.

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweet as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know anything so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing — the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one’s hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Though we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries.”    

— Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping