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 Daniel Weiner was born in Oak Park, Illinois, raised in Los Angles and educated on the West Coast. Mr. Weiner’s aesthetic is crafted from a degree in English and a master’s in printmaking, painting and photography with influences from the California assemblage artists, work as a scenic carpenter and as a reader of romantic literature. Mr. Weiner exhibits with Pierogi in Brooklyn, James Graham and Sons in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include The Farm (2003) and Sushi Visual and Performance Art Space (2001) in San Diego, 4016 Gallery (2004) in Los Angeles and 440 Gallery in Brooklyn (2008). Many of his works are maintained in private collections. Daniel received his BA from UCLA and an MFA from San Diego State.
For more information, please visit www.danieljohnweiner.com
WORK
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
440 Gallery, Brooklyn, No Parking Funeral Today, 2009
440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Department of the Interior, 2008
4016 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Dear Miss Guggenheim, 2004
The Farm, San Diego, CA, Monologue, 2003
Group Exhibitions
440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, The Back Room, 2007
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge Benefit Show, 2007
Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY Flat Files, 2006
Jenkins and Co, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge Benefit Show, Sikkema, 2006
26th Street Armory, New York, NY, Art 212 Art Fair, JG Contemporary, 2006
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge Benefit Show, 2005
JG Contemporary, New York, NY, AAF Contemporary Art Fair, 2005
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge Benefit Show, 2004
James Graham and Sons, New York, NY, Wood Work, 2004
Gallerie Lelong, New York, NY, Postcards from the Edge Benefit Show, 2003
The Farm, San Deigo, CA, The Devil Made Me Do It, 2002
University Gallery, Sand Diego, CA, SDSU Faculty Show, 2002
Sushi Visual/Performance Art Space, Sand Diego, CA, Show and Tell, 2002
Sushi Visual/Performance Art Space, San Diego, CA, Pledge and Pathology - shared show, 2001
El Cortez, San Diego, CA, El Bash Benefit Show, 2000
Juried Exhibitions
Canon Art Gallery, Calsbad, CA, Juried Biennial, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad CA, 2003
Gallery 21, San Diego, CA, Small Images, 2003
Gallery 21, San Diego, CA, Small Images, 2002
Gallery 21, San Diego, CA, Small Images, 2001
Gallery 21, San Diego, CA, Small Images, 2000
COLLECTIONS
Matt Rolletta
Ken Von Schlegel
Reeve Schley
Richard Steele
Susan Weiner
Gail Roberts
Walter Cotton
Jim Cavolt
Vicki Wolfe
Judy Butler
Christopher Rolletta
Matthew Houlihan
Peter J. Cohen
Grace Kim
Nathaniel A. Siegel
ACHIEVEMENTS
2003 Purchase Award, Small Images, San Diego CA
2002 Cash Award, Small Images, San Diego CA
COMMISSIONS
Kitty Darling
Nancy Lohse
EDUCATION
1996 MFA Painting, Printmaking, Photography San Diego State University
1990 BA English UCLA
SELECTED TEACHING
2001-2003 Faculty San Diego State University CA
2002-2003 Adjunct Faculty Southwestern College, San Diego CA
STATEMENT
I work with the problem of subjectivity. I make mixed media collage and assemblage that illustrates how thoroughly and directly our interior state determines the significance of any information. I modify straightforward, declarative objects and texts to show how they might be understood if only a little pathology is involved. For “Our Forgotten Sky,” I cut a page from a Navy electronics manual, which was intended to illustrate a local battery telephone and typed a short poem about communication onto it. Using a technique I think I invented, the text reads both left to right and is mirrored right to left, to echo the symmetry of the illustration. The mood and the text of my poem refer to somber accidents in the Navy diagram. Some of my work I see as collaboration with the illustrators of out of print textbooks. In other works, I address how meaning accretes on things because of the history of actions around them. Objects become symbolic, even the meaning of words is privatized over time. Consequently, we are isolated from each other. Life becomesan ongoing act of interpretation, where we argue for what things mean to us.
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