Mark Wiener

For the Rutgers law professor, see Mark Weiner. For the children's television host, see Marc Weiner.

Mark Wiener (born New York City, 1951) is a New York-based abstract painter, editor, teacher.

Wiener studied painting and photography under Bauhaus influences at the Philadelphia College of Art. Influenced by Alexi Brodivitch, Frank Zachry and Alexander Lieberman,^[1] he early began working simultaneously in several visual media. Wiener was employed as a photographer, illustrator and web designer before turning to full-time painting. His commercial work appeared in magazines including The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, New York Magazine, Paris Match, as well as in such books as Family of Children and The Art of Mickey Mouse.

Wiener was invited in 2006 to exhibit his gestural paintings at the Montblanc Manhattan flagship store, and to participate in the Felissimo Design House “Tribute 21” program, work reproduced on ceramic plate, sold for the benefit of UNESCO. He has received commissions from the World Federation of United Nations Associations to create first day covers and limited edition lithographs to accompany issues of UN Postage Stamps, and was awarded the Croix de Chevalier de’orde Belgo Hispanique under the patronage of Queen Fabiola of Belgium. He has exhibited in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Milan and Tokyo, and regularly in New York City. His work appears as well in numerous private and corporate collections worldwide and in the permanent collection of the Housatonic Museum of Art.^[2]

Wiener publishes and is editor-in-chief of the online magazine Resolve40.com,^[3] which seeks to integrate artists in a New York art community, by frequent reviews of current exhibitions and activities at galleries and major museums, and by encouraging artists to participate in writing.

After first devoting himself to photography, Wiener, based upon observations of the photographer Irving Penn’s process, began an approach to painting that he calls “the white surface”. This combines the acting out of a “visual story” during the creation of the work with Bauhaus ideas of underlying structure. In Wiener’s latest works it appears as his organic gesture of throwing, dripping and pouring paint, orchestrated between drawing and painting layers of geometric objects. Further biography, reviews, shows, as well as images of recent work may be viewed via Wiener's website.^[4]

Links and references

1. ^ http://www.askart.com/askart/l/alexander_lieberman/alexander_lieberman.aspx,
2. ^ http://www.hctc.commnet.edu/artmuseum/
3. ^ http://resolve40.com/
4. ^ http://www.mwienerarts.com

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