Finding Art Miles Away From the Expected
Hanne Tierney has made her FiveMyles gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, both a beacon and an anchor for the neighborhood.
Hanne Tierney inside “Into The Maelstrom,” an installation by Etty Yaniv at FiveMyles gallery, which Tierney founded as a nonprofit in 1999.Credit.Lila Barth for The New York Times
By Seph Rodney
Feb. 23, 2021
About four years ago I followed an emailed invitation to an art gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, not entirely expecting to find curious, provocative, contemporary work in that neighborhood, but I did. Now I return regularly to find that art again and again at FiveMyles gallery.