For my one person show called Wide-eyed and Open-mouthed at Lesley Heller Gallery in 2019 I was interviewed by Fawn Krieger for Bomb Magazine. The Space of Intimacy: Daniel Wiener interviewed by Fawn Krieger Fawn Krieger: What inspired Wide-Eyed and Open-Mouthed? Daniel Wiener: Ten years ago I decided …
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For my one person show called Kooks and Villains at Lesley Heller Workspace in 2015 David Brody wrote this wonderful essay. You can also download a pdf of the catalog. Unfinish Fetish by David Brody Daniel Wiener’s sculpture evokes for me the pathos-steeped stoner sublime –– the hyper-alert dazzle, the …
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“This veteran sculptor excels at manipulating a malleable material called Apoxie-Sculpt that apparently comes in a rainbow of colors. His latest wall reliefs and floor pieces find him mixing and matching them in oozing, looping, blobby patterns and forms with special panache.”
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“Wiener thinks of his functional objects as “Trojan horses,” objects that carry a concealed aesthetic agenda into a domestic space—the art part sneaks in under cover.”
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“Wiener’s command of this elastic material unites the bodily, the synthetic and the art historical into animated hybrids that want to charm you and scare you at the same time.”
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“Its sci-fi/horror vibe invokes the kind of monstrous life forms that have been imagined floating around the cosmos, as well as the monsters floating around the deepest levels of the ocean, where life on Earth most likely began.”
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A complete list of press.
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A list of published writing on art and other things with links.
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Abstraction and fantasy converge in this entertaining eight-artist show.
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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.
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.
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.”
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An interview with Raphael Rubinstein in Art in America.
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David Pagel writes “A loopy parade of pre-oedipal playthings surrounded the visitor to Daniel Wiener’s jam-packed exhibition of unnameable sculptural objects.”
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