On one of the hottest summer-in-spring days last month, I left the cool of my Bushwick apartment for Chelsea. Frieze Week was over but an exhibition I had yet to visit was calling me back to the west side of Manhattan. I trekked across the L to the C to 26th and 9th and up to the 9th floor of the 526 W26 building (thank god for that elevator!) to meet Daniel Wiener. His latest solo show Out in Front of the Back of Beyond, which just closed May 30th, was up at Satchel Projects and I was eager to see the latest from his Faces series on walls other than his studio’s.

I arrived to find Daniel chatting in the back with the gallery director. In all of our meetings, Daniel is rarely, if ever, late – a trait of many artists from the old guard that I enviously admire. He also owns a suite of patterned shirts in varying geometric compositions and palettes that read like “hip artist”, and it’s actually cool; that day was small trompe-l’oeil cubes in white and shades of blue.

Since becoming acquainted with Daniel this year, we’ve had many discussions about his practice. He frets that he doesn’t speak well about his work but it’s actually that he sometimes has more to say than he knows what to do with. He is, after all, speaking from 49 years of experience. Poetry and philosophy in particular weave their way into his artwork nearly like a medium itself, and throughout our conversation at the gallery I am reminded of this.

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