Archive for May, 2009

Kathy Butterly

Kathy Butterly makes intensely considered, worked and reworked sculptures.


Folkert de Jong

Folkert de Jong at Wadsworth Atheneum.


Hilary Harnischfeger

I first saw Hilary Harnischfeger’s work at the Marie Sharpe Walsh foundation studios a couple of years ago and felt an immediate affinity with her work.


New York Times 2000

Abstraction and fantasy converge in this entertaining eight-artist show.


Los Angeles Times 1997

For Daniel Wiener, drawings rarely serve such preparatory purposes. Rather than tracing the stages of an idea’s development, the New York-based sculptor’s images are complete unto themselves.


Los Angeles Times 1996

Daniel Wiener’s five pint-size sculptures at ACME Gallery hang from the ceilng on nearly invisible lines of monofilament. Loaded with associations that are difficult to articulate. These delightfully indescribable blobs of hydrocal, Sculpey and wire initially have the presence of words that get stuck on thc tip of your tongue.


Thingness

While large-scale installations have come to dominate the three-dimensional arena of contemporary art, sculptural objects have undergone their own transformation-from the autonomous, self-sufficient works of bygone. Modernism to referentially rich, materially suggestive, “things.”


Art in America 1995

An interview with Raphael Rubinstein in Art in America.


Summer Exhibitions 2009

Shows at Norte Maar and Mixed Greens


Lee Boroson

I had a very inspiring studio visit with Lee Boroson – at his studio.


hairtoextraholly

Not too long ago, struggling with my work more than usual, I wondered if and how to continue. Two things happened. First I tossed out the rulesand limitations I had set for myself 20 years ago and decided to experiment with different media. The starting point for “hairtoextraholly” was to morph other artists’ shapes into mine and back again. As if mimicking the emotional process of influence would point to the resolution of my artistic crisis.


blackspread

An excerpt from an as-yet-unfinished stop-action animation, composited with live footage of ink spills.


orangeline

An excerpt from an as-yet-unfinished stop-action animation.


blackleaf

An excerpt from an as-yet-unfinished stop-action animation.


blackcrater

An excerpt from an as-yet-unfinished stop-action animation.


redriver

An excerpt from an as-yet-unfinished stop-action animation.


bluecrater

An excerpt from an as-yet-unfinished stop-action animation.


Fine Art Adoption Network

Frequently I post work at the Fine Art Adoption Network. FAAN is an online network, which uses a gift economy to connect artists and potential collectors. All of the artworks on view are available for adoption. This means acquiring an artwork without purchasing it, through an arrangement between the artist and collector. See my work on FAAN.


Wanted: Tutors/Consultants

For any technically-oriented people, living in the Brooklyn area, I am looking for tutors/consultants for javascript with an emphasis on JQuery.
Please contact me.


Norte Maar in NYT

Art Galleries With Less of a Profit Motive Flourish in Brooklyn By CARA BUCKLEY Published: March 6, 2009 Read Article.


Reviews

An Ethos of Industrious Neurosis

by David Brody, ArtCritical.com
David Brody, in a wonderful article, writes "Wiener's exploratory, morph-or-die universe is the reverse of our inertial one: objects never remain at rest."

A Mess of Art

by Blake Gopnik, The Daily Beast

Haiku Review

by Peter Frank, The Huffington Post

Words with the Artist: Daniel Wiener, Part 1 and Part 2

by Jessica Pleasants, FXFOWLE

Daniel Wiener at Calvin Morris Gallery

by Ephraim Birnbaum, Romanov Grave

Interview

Making is Thinking Video Tour

by James Kalm/Lauren Monk, ArtReview.com
A walk-through of my recent show at Lesley Heller Workspace, in April.

Galleries

Lesley Heller Workspace

54 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
t 212 410 6120

ArtWeLove

Three Editions
Sculpture, Adrift
Near the Ruins of the Sutro Baths
Red Leaf

ArtWeLove presents "curated limited editions, by some of the best artists living today, irresistibly priced for every budget."

Exhibitions

Spriral Bound

Notebooks by Artists from New York and San Diego
Read Essay
June 18 - July 16, 2011
National University
7787 Alvarado Road
La Mesa, CA

Materials

Apoxie Sculpt

Apoxie-Sculpt is a self-hardening clay manufactured by Aves Studios.

Polytek - Liquid Mold Rubber

I use Polytek 74-30 for poured rubber molds and Polygel 40 or 50 for brush-on molds.

Aqua-Resin

Aqua-Resin (created by an artist) is an easy to use, opaque, non-toxic composite fabricating resin. It is usually used as a casting material but I use it direct, either brushing it or pouring it over a form.

Pilchuck

All the glass seen in my sculptures was produced at Pilchuck Glass School over several weeks during an artist-in-residency. Pilchuck, generously, asks artists to their campus to explore what glass can do. It was a tremendous and productive experience.