DANIEL WIENER
Striped And Ragged Rigmaroles, 2016
Apoxie-Sculpt
32 x 25 x 12 3/4 in
Off The Table, On The Skids, 2017
Apoxie-Sculpt
60 x 40 x 23 in
From Wikipedia:
Daniel Wiener (born 1954) is an American sculptor currently living and working in New York. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant.
Since the early 1980s Wiener has been known for his multicolored, multi-textured sculptures that straddle the abstract and the representational. Blake Gopnik remarked that, "Wiener’s work escapes being just another instance of formalist abstraction. It seems deeply immersed in real-world materials and forms, as works linked to 'low' craft often do." Early on in his career Wiener showed a deftness for texture, for example making hard elements appear soft, or vice versa, which in turn played with the viewers' tactile responses to the work. Early forms, though not quite representational, were neither fully abstract. An early review by David Pagel in Artforum describes, "A loopy parade of pre-oedipal playthings surrounded the visitor to Daniel Wiener’s jam-packed exhibition of unnameable sculptural objects.”
Wiener has exhibited nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY; Acme Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY; Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY; The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX; Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL; Vadstrup & Bie, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Holland; among others.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at a range of venues including: BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY; Mixed Greens, New York, NY; Jeff Gleich Gallery, Paris, France; Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California; Art in General, New York, NY; MoMA PS:1, Long Island City, NY; SculptureCenter, Long Island Island; NY.
Website: https://danielwiener.com/
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