Daniel Wiener

Covering, 1978

danielwiener — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:09:58 +0000

A gallery from Belgium contacted me to authenticate 2 sculptures to check if I was the Daniel Wiener who made them. Today, they just sent me images of the sculptures and I was happy to see 2 objects I had made long ago – 35 years ago. They were made before I became the artist that I am but, still, it moves me to see them and to remember a younger self, searching and doing well by certain standards but not quite hitting the nail on the head.

Covering #1, 1978, 54x10x4cm, wood, ropes, threads

Covering #4, 1978, 57x7x3cm, wood, ropes, threads

Covering #4 (detail), 1978, 57x7x3cm, wood, ropes, threads

Longhouse Exhibition in East Hampton Star

danielwiener — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:53:28 +0000

In a recent interview published in the East Hampton Star, Bonnie Rychlak, the curator of the group exhibition at the Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton says,

“I originally saw Wiener’s work in vegetation with things growing right up next to it or plantings coming out of it. In the end we sited it on a large bed of gravel. That changed how one interacts with it. On the gravel, they look like they are their own things growing out of the ground, distinct from other things growing out of the ground. Makes them hold the landscape in a way I didn’t imagine they would.”

Longhouse Reserve

danielwiener — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:23:39 +0000

My work is included in Diversities of Sculpture/Derivations from Nature curated by Bonnie Rychlak at the Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton, Long Island. Three of my sculptures are on exhibit outdoors for the first time.

Diversities of Sculpture/Derivations from Nature

curated by Bonnie Rychlak
Reception: April 28, 2012 – 5 – 7pm
April 28th – October 7th, 2012

LongHouse Reserve 2012

133 Hands Creek Road
East Hampton, New York 11937
Please check the website for hours and directions.

Read an article about the curator and exhibition in the East Hampton Star/Sag Harbor Express

Artists include Ronald Bladen, Anne Chu, Brian Gaman, Jene Highstein, Judith Shea, and Daniel Wiener

Installation Shots

Diversities of Sculpture/Derivations from Nature
Everything can come alive when contradictions and oppositions accumulate. The miscellany of sculptures by six artists for this exhibition is a gathering of pioneering, conventional, and idiosyncratic works and practices, having no sweeping ideology in common. The LHR gardens will be their new context for the summer season, viewed and experienced in relationship to plantings, gravel, and the completing glory of nature, which should distinctly complement each object. The six artists in this exhibition demonstrate historical traces of minimalism, conceptual, and feminist art trajectories. Two are East Enders, one has passed away, some are mid-career, and others are well into their practice as professional artists. Ronald Bladen (1918-1988) leads the way as one of the fathers of minimalism, followed by Jene Highstein and Brian Gaman, whose cast concrete and ironworks respectfully, resonate with primary geometric shapes. More organically inspired is the work of Daniel Weiner, whose sculptural process is free flowing and will easily disappear within the vegetation of LongHouse. Finally, the two figurative artists, Judith Shea and Anne Chu, will show works cast in bronze that are the most traditional pieces in this exhibition. Diversities of Sculpture was curated by our Springs neighbor Bonnie Rychlak. Ms. Rychlak, herself an artist, is an independent curator and a member of the LHR Art Committee. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute. Please join us on Saturday, June 9th, for a special lecture with Bonnie Rychlak. LHR is pleased to host, along-side Ms. Rychlak, 4 of the sculptors showcased in this original installation. June 9, 5:30 pm

Guggenheim Fellowship

danielwiener — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:36:25 +0000

It was announced today that I received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012. Wow! I am very excited and thankful to be included with these great artists:

Ellen Altfest
Michael Arcega
Eve Aschheim
Louise E. Belcourt
Nayland Blake
Juan William Chavez
Dawn Clements
Jeff Colson
Matt Connors
Jacci Den Hartog
Chitra Ganesh
Charles Hinman
Arnold J. Kemp
Ron Nagle
Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa
Jennifer W. Reeves
Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin
Judith Shea
Carlos Villa

ArtSEEN – Brooklyn Rail – Letter to Raphael Rubinstein

danielwiener — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:48:40 +0000

Raphael Rubinstein curated the April issue of ArtSeen in the Brooklyn Rail and asked each author to write reviews in the form of a letter. I wrote to Raphael, with whom I collaborated on art-writing in the 80s, about Jeanne Silverthorne’s show at David Mckee Gallery and Julia Kunin’s show at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery.

I began by saying, “I am addressing this letter to you in honor of the art criticism we wrote together in the 1980s, trading paper manuscripts back and forth with revisions long before the “convenience” of sending texts through the digital ether. I have been thinking about your recent writing on “provisional painting” and have seen the work of two sculptors whose current shows may present an alternative take on the provisional.” Read More.

Jeanne Silverthorne

danielwiener — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:00:17 +0000

I wrote about Jeanne Silverthorne’s show at David Mckee in the Brooklyn Rail. As usual, portions of the text were edited out so the piece would fit into the magazine’s format, so I am including some of the lost text. Please read A LETTER TO RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN from Daniel Wiener to understand the context.

Task Chair, rubber, mixed media, 2010

And here is the chair where “Jeanne” works. Since sculpture is made up a series of tasks, more so than painting and many of the other art forms, her chair is known as the Task Chair, 2010. Since I make things, myself, I can’t help but wonder how many molds were made to complete the Task Chair? I marvel at the futility of the enterprise since no task can be accomplished in this Task Chair, the replica of her studio chair displayed at the McKee Gallery, except the task of unraveling the conundrum of its self-cancelling existence.

My Crowded Studio 2012

danielwiener — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:00:39 +0000

Art Blogs

danielwiener — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:56:27 +0000

The Silo by Raphael Rubinstein

A Year of Positive Thinking: Mira Schor

Art Fag City — As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.

Hyperallergic — Sensitive to Art and its Discontents

UbuWeb

On-Verge | Alternative Art Criticism

Two Coats of Paint

MINUS SPACE reductive art » log

The James Kalm Report

down by the water front

Joanne Mattera Art Blog: Marketing Mondays: How is Your Pie Sliced?

LOOK INTO MY OWL

C-MONSTER.net

Sight Unseen

theartblog | Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof’s artblog

ARTicles

Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas

VVORK

Streetsy: Daily Streetart Photography By Jake Dobkin

Wooster Collective

The Art-Smarts Daily, Art & Entertainment

Art Info aggregator through Twitter Feed aggregator | artnewsday

Alternative Distribution for Art

danielwiener — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:50:10 +0000

For years artists have been searching for ways to distribute their work other than using the traditional gallery system, selling expensive one-of-a-kind objects. Because of the internet and the influence of open-source software artists and entrepenuers are starting enterprises to distribute art to greater numbers. Some are doing this for profit and others not. Below are a few examples. To begin and get a comprehensive overview, I recommend reading the first entry, an article by Faye Hirsch for Art in America about the movement of affordable digital prints.

The Everyone Artwork – Features – Art in America
Faye Hirsch begins, “In the past few years, some savvy young entrepreneurs, drawing both on venerable models of print marketing and a native comfort with the Internet, have succeeded in linking the technologies of Web communications and digital printing—vastly improved in stability, endurance, quality and availability—to market a new genre of inexpensive, mass-produced artwork. While online enterprises plying digital art have been in existence for some time (Mixed Greens and Eyestorm, for example, which sell pricier wares), the new model for e-commerce print publishing ingeniously merges the democratic ideology of “art for all” with the lure of scarcity. The product is digital prints, mainly on paper, each available in multiple sizes, with prices set accordingly, beginning quite low—sometimes as low as $15.”

Artspace

20×200 | Affordable Art Prints | Limited Edition Prints and Photographs | Jen Bekman Projects

Fine Art Adoption Network

This is 2-UP

Artsicle

i-want-a-print. art in limited editions

Artbreak: Buy art online and sell art online

Invisible-Exports

Welcome to the ARTIST of the MONTH CLUB

Shop.ArtWeLove : Fine Art, Finally Collectible.

APARTMENT SHOW

Art Barter – The Platform for free exchange between artists and the public

Let’s Swap

Public Workshops – Community Centers for Artists

danielwiener — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:56:04 +0000

Recently grass roots institutions and provisional, home-grown community centers and workspaces for artists have emerged in many cities. This is a short New York centric list of some of them.

Home – 3rd Ward

“3rd Ward is a multi-disciplinary workspace and education center. Here, you can take advantage of our Wood Shop, Metal Shop, Photo Studios, Jewelry Studios and Coworking Space, as well as learn new skills in one of our many classes.

Whether you’re a beginner looking for a creative outlet, or a seasoned professional in search of a full-time workspace solution,
3rd Ward can help.”

The Gowanus Studio Space: About

NYC Resistor » Electronics, Hacking, Classes, and Workspace.

flux factory

Arts Tech Meetup | The Arts Culture and Technology Meetup in New York City

The Public School

Art in Odd Places

#Class — Hashtag Class

Arts, Culture and Technology (New York, NY) – Meetup

Brooklyn Art Project

OurGoods

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