Captivated ... Instantly Iʼm drawn to the immediacy of his palette, his clever and diverse strokes, the juxtaposed spheres floating, grounding with imperfect grids, pours, drips, erasures, tensions finding balance with one another. As I witness these markings, the recollections triggered, recalled, I search for traced remnants left behind by salvaged objects, their imprints randomly scattered but never lost. ...

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Mark Wiener ... Working in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, he invites the public to visit not just his ink spattered work space, but also his artistic thought process. He is interested in the effect his daily work has on whoever might walk through the door. As Wiener describes it, “Every piece of mine is the beginning of a conversation.” This openness to feedback and serendipity is central to Wiener’s process of painting. He is influenced by Abstract Expressionism, a style of painting that is anti-figurative, emotionally charged, and spontaneous. As the American art critic Harold Rosenberg says of abstract expressionism, “What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.” Wiener believes that each of his paintings is born of his immediate experiences; the work is an ongoing dialog between himself and the world around him ...