In the days to come this page will be filled

with my recollections from childhood to

today, of people and events that shaped

my way of seeing.

2006

2007 - 2006

Place: 1957 - Eye Doctors Office

many years later...

Date: 12.25.06 Time: 10:43 pm

Event: fessing up...

As a impressionable six year old I was told by my eye doctor that I was color blind . Now as mature 55 yr old who loves color and uses it with great joy. I believe I have been living a little white lie to draw the attention to my work. Below is one of my most recent works that express the gentle approach I have to seeing color. Inspired by this I have started a new series called "color blind

color blind IV

".

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Place: On the floor at 79th street

Date: 12.28.06 Time: 01:02 am

Event: reaching for that dark place again...

Blue Man , Acrylic and Sumi ink on wood panel , 18" x 24"

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Place: On the floor at 79th street

Date: 11.28.06 Time: 01:02 pm

Event: reaching that dark place... not just a black canvas.

Black Bird , Acrylic and Sumi ink on wood panel , 18" x 18 "
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Place: Number 6 Train, NYC

Date: 11.23.06 Time: 01:02 pm

Event:Taking it one more step.

I Always draw during the long trip from 78th and
Lex. to Canal Street. Fellow passengers look
on with questioning eyes.

This canvas below is a result of those drawings.
Count on the #6 train for inspiration.

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Series of Marks III - 36"X48" acrylic on canvas

Place:Christies

Date: 11.11.06 Time: 01:02 pm

Event:Temptation

Have you ever wondered what the other side

of a canvas looks like when it is hanging on a museum wall?

Temptation.

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Place:My Desk

Date: 11.01.06 Time: 11:30 pm

Event:Story telling time

Guess I have to finish it later.

Place:Paul Hunter Studio

Date: 11.01.06 Time: 02:30 pm

Event: Seeing a story in black

After my Epiphany... of the other day
I had a vision, a narrative
in black.

Place:Park Avenue
Date: 10.31.06 Time: 01:43 pm

Event: marking

Epiphany...

Series of Marks..

Place:ATOA - Panel SVA
Date: 10.27.06 Time: 07:43 am

Event: Panel

Last night I put my lecturing
suit on and moderated a panel for
ATOA, named "Business of Being an Artist II"

I stood i nfront of this audience as my mouth
dry with stage freight and started and then it was
over... an hour and a half later.

I learned that I like making people feel
focused and energized like I do
with my paintings.

Place:All Over
Date: 10.15.06 Time: 11:47 am

Event: writing again

Heart felt and directed to stick to one vision. I woke up today
seeing... The question is how many things can I see and
what to create. Idea after Idea... Painting, Video,
Drawing.. then writing.

It is just good to be
writing.

Place: East 78th street
Date: 09.17.06 Time: 11:47 PM

Event: being obsessed with self-expression

I saw a well-dressed businessman walking
along a city street - backwards, I looked at
him funny as he passed. He looked at me
the same way.

Place: somewhere close to home
Date: 09.11.06 Time: 7:47 PM

Event: just thinking

Today is a day to be quiet.

And pray for those who
lost there loved ones 5yrs ago.

Place: My studio
Date: 08.27.06 Time: 04:31 PM

Event: Opening up, one more step...

To my studio. To the four wood panels that have
been my whipping board, without resolution.
 
So, Resolution was the task.

I have always worked hard at getting voice, and, once
I have, finding safety in it. There comes a point when my
voice becomes a whisper... Then, days like today happen.
 
The wood received strokes of yellow, red, blue, aqua -
whatever was in my studio. That is the spirit which came
upon me today.
 
Resolution? Maybe not, but good, peace of mind.

Age: 54

Place: My studio floor
Date: 08.23.06 Time: 01:31 AM

Event: Sand Sketching


For every Birthday I must just take a moment to see
my visual life a little differently.

Here it is.

Age: 54

Place: My studio floor
Date: 08.22.06 Time: 08:38 AM

Event: Dealing with that week before a birthday


Birthdays are always a time to reflect upon events that
shape ones life.

Why, I don't know, but I have this urge to understand
the origin of my first visual gesture on this birthday.

In a heap on my studio floor were magazine covers, photographs,
sketch pads and paintings all of my creation over the past 30 years.
I searching through the pile. trying to answer this quest.

Taking notice of...

Hanging on the wall was a photo that I shot in the early eighties,
the subject a nude lady on my seamless. Her name - Madonna.

Possibly, my first gesture.

Place: MOMA, NYC
Date: 08.02.06 Time: 11:14 PM

Event: Dealing with the heat, getting motivated.

When I have a problem getting motivated,

I remember something Alexander Lieberman once said to me.

I was a young & impressionable.

I walked up to him as he stood amidst his exhibition at
Andre Emmeriche's Gallery. Amazed at his talent as an
artist, and also as creative director of all Conde Naste
publications, I asked "Mr. Leiberman, how are you able
to do all this and more?" He turned to me and said bluntly,

"Just do it."

It felt like he had riding crop in his hand.

So, every time I feel overwhelmed, I hear his voice,

like a kick in the...and I do it.

mark wiener - detail - Sharks & Angels Black - 2006

Place: MOMA, NYC
Date: 07.31.06 Time: 12:14 PM

Event: Thinking about the POWER of the dance.

Sitting in front of my favorite Cy Twombly, talking
to two young artists from California about the power
of dance. Like Zorba the Greek.

mark wiener - new strokes - 2005

2003

Place: 42nd street - between 6th - 7th
Date: 08.21.03 Time: 8:14 pm


Age: 52

Event: Bringing back my vision.

It started off with a long walk to nowhere in particular... ending up
on 42nd street in a heated dicussion about the facts of life of a full
time artist." And where will I havemy studio?" I wondered aloud, when
on our left a new storefront on this familiar block caught our attention -
"A gallery? Here?"We found young curator Janusz Jaworski locking
up after his first opening, but he welcomed us inside. He explained
that this was TIXE, a new artspace operated by chashama, and that it
contained a theatre and and installation space as well as this main
gallery. Oh, and and there was an artist in residence program -

WOULD WE LIKE TO SEE THE STUDIO?

View the TIXE experience MOVIE (click here)

1988

Place: Keith Haring's Studio, NYC, NY

age: 37

Event: What it meant to have an edge.

Visiitng Keith Haring in his studio, my canvas
spread out on his studio floor; Keith says to me
"Anybody would love your work. They kind
of remind me of elavator music ."

The painting below, "Harings"s Revenge" was
motivated by Keiths comments. I consider
this work to have been my first work with edge.

mark wiener - Harrings Revenge"- 1988

1968

Place: the St. Regis Hotel, NYC, NY
Old King Cole Room

Age: 16

Event: My first Humorous Art Experience

Sitting Next to Salvador Dali watching him
discuss ideas with my mother, while viewing
Maxflied Parrish's "Old King Cole"

Signed while sitting with Dali for the first time.

more to come...