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…
2 Winter shots from Catskills added to PhotoLandscapes
Here’s two moody shots taken as the sun was setting in the Catskills Mountains in New York State. Lauren and I were walking along the Esopus Creek, under the shadow of Mount Trempor. See more landscape photography here: https://jeffreywiener.gallery/photography-natural-nature/
Artwork: The Sermon
“Beware the False Prophet who comes dressed as a Man of god. You will think he is one of you, and that he knows Me. He is Satan. He will lead you into Destruction.” This drawing came from my experience worshipping in the Evangelical churches I joined in during…
High School Works
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.…