BEN WEINER – MATERIAL AND ILLUSION
2010-05-31Ben Weiner’s second solo exhibition in Los Angeles. For the first time in the artist’s career, he includes four stop-motion video works in addition to five studio-fresh oil paintings rendered in his signature photorealistic technique.
Through cropped magnifications, Weiner decontextualizes the commonplace to achieve conceptually transcendent and enigmatic abstractions. In his most recent body of work, the artist continues to resolve mass production with artistic creation by referencing Clement Greenberg’s formalist notion of art exploring the nature of medium. Weiner’s portrayals of synthetic materials such as high-fructose corn syrup, beauty products, and oil paint, achieve arresting duality through their vague familiarity and simultaneous mystique, reflecting our zeitgeist’s fascination with artifice and imitation. In conversation with Weiner’s transformative videos, his paintings confront our societal resistance to mortality and the unrefined.
Opposite – [H2O(l), H2O(g)], (C6H9NO)n, C3H8O2, C28H20N2Na2O8S2, 2010 color video loop
Exhibition runs from June 5th to July 3rd, 2010.
Mark Moore Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue A-1
Santa Monica
CA
90404
