The artist Emily Weiner is drawn to the sort of instantly recognizable imagery that taps into the unconscious and communicates across time.
Her new pieces, which will soon make up a solo show at Red Arrow Gallery in Nashville and feature in the inaugural group exhibition at König Galerie’s Mexico City outpost, continue in this vein while expanding her visual lexicon.
On one canvas, Weiner has painted an all-encompassing aquamarine spiral that moves toward a tiny half-moon at the center; hung next to it at Red Arrow will be its fiery twin — a mirror-image spiral rendered in a rusty red.
(A number of the other works are symmetrical all on their own and, fittingly, the name of the solo show, “Never Odd or Even,” is a palindrome.)
“I was thinking about the notion that this is a tainted world that inevitably is going to be saved by a patriarchal god and trying to invert it,” says Weiner.
Persons:
Emily Weiner, she’s, Weiner, “, Lucio Fontana, ”
Organizations:
Arrow, König Galerie
Locations:
Nashville, Mexico, König, Mexico City