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UPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / NEW YORK, NY
September 18-October 3, 2014
Arcadia Contemporary 51 Greene Street | New York, NY 10013 (212) 965-1387 | www.arcadiacontemporary.com
ARON WIESENFELD
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n September 18, Arcadia Contemporary in New York City will open its fourth solo exhibition for artist Aron Wiesenfeld. Titled Solstice, the exhibit focuses on not only the changing of the seasons but also the changes that people can go through. Recognized for his stories and characters, Wiesenfeld explores a different angle with this new body of work. “The environment plays a more central role in all of these paintings and the characters are generally smaller in scale,”
he says. “There is still the active narrative of what the characters are doing, but it’s almost like they become a bit secondary and smaller…A lot of my previous work was a large figure and the environment was small and low on the horizon to get a sense of scale for the character. That has sort of reversed I feel.” Paintings such as The Orchard and The Return are examples of this new way of storytelling for the artist. The Orchard is an open scene of an apple orchard at
season’s turn with fruit on the ground. In the distance of the painting are three young girls playing games and braiding hair. The Return has a small-scale figure in the foreground—a woman on her bike—with a larger, more prominent winter landscape surrounding her. Another new element that is noticed in Wiesenfeld’s paintings for the show is people traveling in a pack. As Wiesenfeld describes, “Almost like migrating through the paintings like animals would” or there
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1 The Orchard, oil on canvas, 64 x 93" 2 God of the Forest, oil on canvas, 39¼ x 28" 3 The Sect, oil, 29 x 19" 4 The Return, oil on canvas, 30¼ x 33½"
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seems to be a “mysterious sort of ritual going on.” Two works depicting this idea are Border and November. In Border the figures are moving together off in the distance; while November has the figures journeying from the foreground past a snow-covered train. September 20 from noon to 2 p.m., Wiesenfeld will be on hand at the gallery for a book signing of The Well. The 120-page monograph includes artwork from the artist’s 15-year career. Solstice will hang at Arcadia Contemporary through October 3. 4
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