Explosive and spiritual, intense and meditative, Sharon Weiner‘s vibrant art is a sensory experience. Currently exhibiting her work at Diversions Fine Arts, as an abstract painter, Weiner says that sheidentifies with many of the postwar American transcendental abstract artists, like Mark Rothko and Ross Bleckner.
Her technique is entirely her own, building layers of poured acrylic paint and acrylic medium. The organic shapes she forms envelop the viewer before melding into the deep space of a smooth, shining surface. Her subjects are born from both her imagination and the natural environment, reflecting her own belief in the importance of having a voice in the world.
“I am inspired predominantly by nature: oceans, mountains, the cosmos. There’s this shape that just stays with me in my work that reminds me of a mountain or a wave,” she relates. Indeed, Weiner’s work has elements that appear both liquid and vast.
“I’ve always been an abstract painter. One thing that’s changed [recently for me] is the addition of working with Yupo paper. I work in a similar way on paper to my work on canvas, with very different results allowing me to express things that I can’t do with canvas, allowing me a certain freedom and lightness,” she explains.
Her mediums are acrylic paint, acrylic ink, and water based spray paint on both canvas and paper, and regardless of the exact medium she uses, she finds that she is “always excited to see what is going to develop in my work.”
She stresses that no matter what the specific subject, color palette, or size of her work – which ranges from small to vast, “my art allows me to connect to my spirituality and has given me a voice.”
Following her show at Diversions Fine Arts, Weiner will be a part of an exhibition at 515 in DTLA’s Bendix Building in June.
But as to her art itself, it remains a part of the universe, a celestial series that speaks to space, light, color, and the promise of a new worlds unfolding.
View Weiner’s work at Diversions Fine Arts through May 3rd at 1069 N. Aviation Blvd., Manhattan Beach.
- Genie Davis; photos provided by the artist
Congratulations to you both on mounting a beautiful exhibition 👏👏👏