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Art News:
[H2O(l) ®
H2O(g)], (C6H9NO)n, C3H8O2, C28H20N2Na2O8S2 (2010)
color video loop on HD LCD monitor
26.5 x 40.5 x 4.5
inches
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Ben
Weiner
Material and
Illusion
Opening Reception:
June 5, 2010, 5-7 pm
On view:
June 5 - July 3, 2010
Artist debuts several video works alongside new paintings for second Los Angeles
solo
exhibition
Mark Moore
Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue,
A-1
Santa Monica, CA
90404
Telephone 310 453
3031
Fax 310 453
3831
info@markmooregallery.com
www.markmooregallery.com
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Mark Moore
Gallery is pleased to host 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.
For more information on the artist, opening event or additional press materials,
please visit www.markmooregallery.com
, or contact Catlin Moore.
For available works, please contact Mark Moore
Upcoming events at Mark Moore Gallery:
Chad Person, "RECESS; surviving the end of your world," July 10 – August 21,
2010
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