Daniel Wiener makes a new kind of Pop art, twisting the language of cartooning and toymaking into convoluted psychic landscapes. He got exhibited and written up quite a bit in the early to mid '90s, before the New York art world had one of its (not infrequent) mass attacks of stupidity and let him slip away from the scene. ("But it's sculpture!" I can hear the dealers whining, "It's hard to se-e-e-lll!") Check out his page here and see for yourself how unfair this was. Especially recommended are the Quicktime and Flash animations (e.g., Bluecraters), wherein Wiener's Sculpy and Hydrocal creations come to life, like a cross between Oskar Fischinger and Gumby cartoons. It's awe-inspiring work.
and peter soriano?
Also great, and overlooked. I reviewed one of his Lennon Weinberg shows for Sculpture in '97 (eventually I'll get that posted in my writing archive), and happened to visit the gallery that shows him in Paris when I went there two summers ago. (Here are some good images from a Marseilles show.)
Random (not very profound) thoughts: Soriano's approach is more minimal. He stresses the single goofy figure as opposed to a busy hive of figurelets (figuroids?). Lately Wiener's work seems to be revisiting the same weird "tide pool" or volcano landscape. He's been working behind the scenes all along as a web designer (he does the Keith Haring site, among others), and I like seeing him combine his pursuits in those animation loops.
did you see the soriano's exhibition last month at lennon weinberg ?
No, unfortunately. Did you? If so, how was it?
I live in paris.
Ah, I know Peter shows in France and a mutual friend just told me he spends a lot of time there. He and Wiener are contemporaries here in New York; Wiener is a few years older. (Just in case you had the impression he was a newcomer borrowing from Soriano's style, or whatever.) I would consider the two of them, and Charles Long, to be leading makers of this kind of pop biomorphism in the States. Of course, the New York art world declared Long the "star" a few years back, because his work had more of a conceptual, narrative dimension. That's pretty arbitrary, though--they're all interesting.
for Long I am agree with you
Soriano, Wiener, Long in sculpture. Ostendarp in painting?
Yes, and also Alexander Ross (or here), who is more on the biomorphic side of the equation, and Giles Lyon, whose work has gotten a bit fussy lately (the link shows older work). I haven't listed any women yet--this is mainly a guy thing.
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Daniel Wiener makes a new kind of Pop art, twisting the language of cartooning and toymaking into convoluted psychic landscapes. He got exhibited and written up quite a bit in the early to mid '90s, before the New York art world had one of its (not infrequent) mass attacks of stupidity and let him slip away from the scene. ("But it's sculpture!" I can hear the dealers whining, "It's hard to se-e-e-lll!") Check out his page here and see for yourself how unfair this was. Especially recommended are the Quicktime and Flash animations (e.g., Bluecraters), wherein Wiener's Sculpy and Hydrocal creations come to life, like a cross between Oskar Fischinger and Gumby cartoons. It's awe-inspiring work.
- tom moody 2-24-2003 7:48 pm
and peter soriano?
- jean (guest) 2-26-2003 9:45 pm
Also great, and overlooked. I reviewed one of his Lennon Weinberg shows for Sculpture in '97 (eventually I'll get that posted in my writing archive), and happened to visit the gallery that shows him in Paris when I went there two summers ago. (Here are some good images from a Marseilles show.)
Random (not very profound) thoughts: Soriano's approach is more minimal. He stresses the single goofy figure as opposed to a busy hive of figurelets (figuroids?). Lately Wiener's work seems to be revisiting the same weird "tide pool" or volcano landscape. He's been working behind the scenes all along as a web designer (he does the Keith Haring site, among others), and I like seeing him combine his pursuits in those animation loops.
- tom moody 2-26-2003 11:37 pm
did you see the soriano's exhibition last month at lennon weinberg ?
- jean 2-27-2003 9:53 am
No, unfortunately. Did you? If so, how was it?
- tom moody 2-27-2003 10:12 am
I live in paris.
- jean 3-03-2003 9:00 pm
Ah, I know Peter shows in France and a mutual friend just told me he spends a lot of time there. He and Wiener are contemporaries here in New York; Wiener is a few years older. (Just in case you had the impression he was a newcomer borrowing from Soriano's style, or whatever.) I would consider the two of them, and Charles Long, to be leading makers of this kind of pop biomorphism in the States. Of course, the New York art world declared Long the "star" a few years back, because his work had more of a conceptual, narrative dimension. That's pretty arbitrary, though--they're all interesting.
- tom moody 3-03-2003 9:20 pm
for Long I am agree with you
Soriano, Wiener, Long in sculpture. Ostendarp in painting?
- jean 3-03-2003 9:41 pm
Yes, and also Alexander Ross (or here), who is more on the biomorphic side of the equation, and Giles Lyon, whose work has gotten a bit fussy lately (the link shows older work). I haven't listed any women yet--this is mainly a guy thing.
- tom moody 3-03-2003 10:36 pm