This small painting (9″x12″, acrylic on paper, 1988) has personal and emotional importance for me. My empathies for the Farmer must go back to a past life. Like many of the hardest working people, I feel their lives have been ignored, withering on our national economic vine, so to speak,…
Jeffrey Wiener developed this series of surrealistic drawings, paintings and animations over the course of 40 years. These works (visions) reflect a dramatic spirituality discovered during many travels to the middle east, starting from his teens when he made his first visits to Israel. These artworks are also informed by an…
In the series of works entitled “TV Series”, Jeffrey Wiener explores the relationship between humans and the television screens that connect them to the outside world. Televisions allow individuals to disconnect with the ones they are with, and reconnect with an Other that is accessible through the screen. This is…
In this series of artworks entitled “Shared Spaces”, I am exploring the psychological dynamics of human relationships. I am trying to create an illustration of my subjects’ true relationships with each other, a visualization of their psychological reality. While these works are erotic at first glance, this project is not…
This is a collection of artworks created during my High School years (1977-1979). I was drawing a lot from my imagination at home after school. In school, I was doing more academically focused works as directed by my art teacher, who nurtured me and really helped me focus my skills.…
“The Storm” represents my contemplation on the human condition during the AIDS crisis. Each of these poor souls is stranded on the stump of the trees that have been cut down. The storms come in dark sheets, blackening the sky. The rains pour down, the water rises, the waves lap…