Ben Weiner, [H2O(l) ® H2O(g)], (C6H9NO)n C3H8O2, C28H20N2Na2O8S2, 2010 (detail)color video loop on HD LCD
monitor 26.5 x 40.5 x 4.5 inches. Photo: Courtesy Mark Moore Gallery.
SANTA MONICA, CA.-Mark Moore Gallery hosts Ben Weiner's second solo
exhibition in Los Angeles. For the first time in the artist's career,
the gallery will debut four stop-motion video works in addition to five
studio-fresh oil paintings rendered in his signature photorealistic
technique.
Through cropped magnifications, Weiner decontextualizes the
commonplace to achieve conceptually transcendent and enigmatic
abstractions. In his most recent body of work, the artist continues to
resolve mass production with artistic creation by referencing Clement
Greenberg's formalist notion of art exploring the nature of medium.
Weiner's portrayals of synthetic materials such as high-fructose corn
syrup, beauty products, and oil paint, achieve arresting duality through
their vague familiarity and simultaneous mystique, reflecting our
zeitgeist's fascination with artifice and imitation. In conversation
with Weiner's transformative videos, his paintings confront our societal
resistance to mortality and the unrefined.
"His still lifes are filled with subjectivity, exuding a paradoxical
mix of sensuous attraction and frightening repulsion that virtually
transforms these microcosms of the world into a monumental, sublime
universe." – Joseph Jacobs, Art & Antiques (2007)
Ben Weiner (born 1980, Burlington, VT) received his BA from Wesleyan
University (CT), and studied with muralist Jose Lascarro at Universidad
de las Americas (Mexico). He has exhibited his work widely across the
United States and in Mexico, with solo shows in Los Angeles, New York,
and Puebla, and group exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Miami, New
Haven, Ridgefield, CT, Los Angeles and Riverside, CA. His paintings can
be found in the Sammlung Monstudio (Germany) and the Frederick R.
Weisman Foundation Collection (CA). The artist lives and works in New
York City.
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