Overview
Martin Weinstein

What Martin Weinstein does with each painting is to deconstruct the optical illusion of the three dimensional visual experience and reveals it for what it really is: an individual, direct and unique experience re-ordered by the seeing mind. 

Martin Weinstein’s paintings reference both the earth and the surrounding cosmos in perfect harmony. This balanced meeting of the inner and outer worlds are due to Weinstein’s technique of painting on 3-5 interlocking sheets of clear acrylic panels over a period of months to years. The clarity of these layered paintings only becomes apparent with the joinery of each incomplete translucent layer that records only a part of the visual story. Seen together as overlapping panels, the optical illusion of reality is perfect; yet slid away from one another, each panel holds only a titillating fragment of the whole. By breaking his compositions down to three or four floating layers of painted elements, surfaces that can span days, months, and even years, Weinstein has brought in a very specific sense of time. Visually speaking, by overlapping layers of clear, frosted acrylic to paint upon, Weinstein can stretch the visual elements not just in time but in space, so a work will read differently in its level of abstraction depending on the vantage point. These shifting visual transitions are key to understanding the artist's work and how he uniquely references the land around him through a distinctive and varied filter. The sharp detail of a flower's edge gives way to a gestural impression of a shadow's passing creating an ever-shifting dance between focus and blurred vision. In a way, this is more of how we actually see the world around us, how we hone into details and process information, and how we measure perspective in movement from detail to detail and site to site. What Martin Weinstein does with each painting is to deconstruct the optical illusion of the three dimensional visual experience and reveals it for what it really is: an individual, direct and unique experience re-ordered by the seeing mind. 

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Works
Afternoons, Venice, Inside Over Outside, 2022
Biography
Martin Weinstein
Martin Weinstein

In his extensive career, Martin Weinstein has had 28 solo exhibitions and over 40 group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationally.

ABOUT MARTIN WEINSTEIN:

In his extensive career, Martin Weinstein has had over 30 solo exhibitions and more than 50 group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Media coverage has included Art in America, Artes Magazine, Arts Magazine, Huffington Post, New York Daily News, NY Art Beat, d'Art International Magazine and The Philadelphia Enquirer. Weinstein is the Co-chair of the friends of AIM Program of The Bronx Museum of Arts and the Co-founder of Art in General.

 

Selected solo exhibitions include Witchita Art Musuem  (KS); Hilstrum Museum of Art, (MN); MacNider Art Museum, (Mason City, IA); Visual Arts Center, (Sioux Falls, SD); the Fernbank Museum of Natural History,(Atlanta GA); The Parthenon Museum, (TN); Chicago Academy of Sciences (IL), the New York Hall of Science (NY, NY) and most recently, at Castello Spaces in Venice, Italy. More about Martin Weinstein: www.martinweinstein.com

 

Having shown his work extensively, exhibitions in NYC include the Franklin Reihlman Fine Art, Walter Wickiser Gallery,  Allen Gallery, Lichtundfire, Henock Gallery and Elga Wimmer PPC. Selected solo exhibitions include Witchita Art Musuem, KS; Hilstrum Museum of Art, MN; MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, IA; Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD; and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta GA; The Parthenon Museum, TN; Chicago Academy of Sciences, the New York Hall of Science and most recently, at Castello Spaces in Venice, Italy. 

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Martin Weinstein

2018

Friswell, Richard. "Connecticut's Housatonic Museum of Art with Eclectic Landscape Exhibition: New Perspectives", Artes Magazine, March 11, 2018.

 

2015

Hrbacek, Mary. "Elga Wimmer PCC with "Resonance and Memory: The Essense of Landscape," Artes Magazine, January 7, 2015.

 

2014

Hrbacek, Mary. "Elga Wimmer PCC with "Resonance and Memory: The Essense of Landscape," NY Art Beat, December 31, 2014.

 

2005

Shull, Chris. "Time Passages," The Wichita Eagle, Friday October 21, 2005.

 

"WAM Opens Illusion and Certainty," Wichita Times, River City Review, November-December 2005.

 

"WAM to Feature Paintings of Martin Weinstein," WestSide Story, Wichita, November 2005.

 

Temple, Georgia. "Second-generation Artist Shows his 'Layered' Work," Midland Reporter-Telegram, Sunday August 1. Cover Arts & Entertainment, Section p. 1F

 

2004

Bostick, Alan. "The Illusion of Time," The Tennessean, Sunday, March 7.

 

2003

Vine, Richard. Time Framed: Martin Weinstein's Recent Landscapes, Exhibition catalogue, May 2003-2005, Illusion and Certainty: Martin Weinstein, paintings

 

Walls, Michael. Martin Weinstein: Seeing Beauty, Conceiving A Response, Exhibition catalogue, May 2003-2005, Illusion and Certainty: Martin Weinstein, paintings

 

2001

Nahas, Dominque. Moment by Moment: Paintings of Martin Weinstein, Brochure.

 

1997

Henry, Gerrit. "Martin Weinstein at MyungSook Lee", Art in America, May.

 

1995

Tatransky, Valantin. "Natural History", Arts Magazine, October.

 

1994

Donahoe, Victoria. "N.Y. Artist Weinstein's Paintings at College",

The Philadelphia Enquirer, October 10.

 

Hornaday, Ann. "The Industrial Evolution", The New York Daily News, March 16.

 

Kuryluk, Ewa. Vision and Memory: Martin Weinstein's Pictorial Complexity, Exhibition catalogue, September 30 - October 30, 1994. Mutable Perception: Martin Weinstein Paintings and Drawings 1989 - 1994.

 

1993

Watkins, Eileen. "Museum Offers Spectacular Exhibition Focusing on the Flower as Eternal Moment", The Sunday Star Ledger, July 4.

 

1987

Handy, Ellen. "Memory Images," Arts Magazine, May.

 

Kuryluk, Ewa. Time Revisited and Regained,

Exhibition catalogue published by The Scottish Arts Council

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