EMILY WEINER: TIME AND TIDE
KÖNIG GALERIE presents an exhibition of new paintings by US American artist, Emily Weiner, her first with the gallery. TIME AND TIDE consists of 11 oil-on-linen works, each with a unique, handmade frame.
April 27 - June 22, 2024
After having studied in New York, the city from which she hails, Weiner moved her studio to Nashville, Tennessee in 2018, where she continues to expand upon her interests in topics related to art history, comedic theater, diasporic Jewish culture, and symbolism, along with many others.
Each of the 11 works included in TIME AND TIDE is dedicated to a particular figure or formal element, for example: Pierrot from the Commedia dell’arte (PIERROT), Sappho (HARLEQUIN), the golden spiral (NEBULA), and a Rubin’s vase which can be seen as both a vase or two faces (PARADOX). While Weiner’s choice of subject matter is personal, she endeavors to translate her concerns into a language that is more universally understood, evidenced by her recourse to foundational geometric elements and symbols in her paintings.
Weiner is also motivated by a desire to shift the hierarchies of artistic labor, giving equal voice to activities historically considered “craft” or “women’s work.” As such, Weiner builds ceramic frames for some of her canvases, providing multiple modes of aesthetic engagement, from the tactile to the visual. The aspect of performance is central to the works in TIME AND TIDE, which refers simultaneously to the fictional characters from historical theatre and Weiner’s own actions as she paints and composes.
TIME AND TIDE offers a focused presentation of Weiner’s unique cosmos, putting her activities as painter and ceramicist on full display. The perspective that Weiner shares in her paintings is at once complex and straightforward, a visual reality that appeals to multiple senses and states of being. This reflects the manner in which her works were created and speaks to the possibilities that exist in their modes of communication, providing a truly unique encounter on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024.
Emily Weiner’s paintings consider the art canon through a feminist and Jungian lens. By reconfiguring symbols that have been recycled throughout the history of art, her work questions how archetypal images are shared across generations – and how familiar symbols might be reordered to generate new, collective understanding.
Select solo and group exhibitions include KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany (2024); Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, USA (2024); Entrée, Bergen, Norway (2023); Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway (2023); Huxley-Parlour, London, UK (2023); Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy (2023); Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, USA (2023); Pentimenti, Philadelphia, USA (2023); Wespace, Shanghai, China (2022), Gerdarsafn Museum, Kopavogur, Iceland (2017); and Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016). She has been a Visiting Artist/Scholar at the American Academy in Rome; Artist Resident at The Cooper Union, New York, NY; and Artist-in-Residence at The Banff Centre, Canada.