Bad Dreams
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…
TV Series
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…
TV Series: 9/11 (Animation)
This video was originally created in response to the attack on the World Trade Center on 9.11, and how the media’s handling of this issue has affected our culture in the aftermath. I used over a hundred still images taken from advertising and popular television shows to create a small-screen portrait…
Commander Bush and the Last Crusade (Animation)
This video was created as a submission to a public contest – a great experiment in political activism within the creative community. Lot’s of design firms, professional and amateur videographers, and a few animators, were involved in this national competition founded by MoveOn.org. Entitled BUSH in 30 Seconds, the contest…
Exhibition: Shared Spaces
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…
Figure Drawing with the iPad: Workshop at Art Students League NYC (from 2015)
This drawing workshop is designed to teach any student how to use the iPad (or any other mobile device) to do quick figurative studies from the live model. Students will also be taught several specific drawing techniques that will allow them to create final, polished drawings and paintings for print…
Editorial: “TheGreatNude is Dying”
Lately, some of my male artist friends have been confiding to me that they are feeling like pariahs in the art world. And boy, do I get it. From my vantage point, I see that the general public’s taste for the Nude is souring. What I’ve been calling “The Great…
Photo on Exhibit in “RADIUS MONTICELLO”
Beanbag Ice Cream Stand, Monticello, NY, 2007 One of my landscape photographs was exhibited at a PopUp Exhibit in Monticello, NY June 18-19, 2016
Editorial: Guns in the Family
Guns in the Family . By Jeffrey Wiener . The joke I tell about my family is that half of us are “Rhode Scholars”, the other half “Road Kill Scholars”. My maternal uncles are great examples of the latter, being eccentric and almost “off the grid” by virtue of their…
Editorial: The Paths We Choose
The Paths We Choose. By Jeffrey Wiener . It was a few days before the July 4th weekend, and my fiancé Lauren and I were packing up to take her son to college orientation in Plattsburgh, New York. About 30 miles from the Canadian border, Plattsburgh sits on the shores…