Galleries, Miami
Austyn Weiner
(Mid-Explosion)
Bill BradyReception: Tuesday, December 4th, 7pm to 9pm Bill Brady Gallery is pleased to present (Mid-Explosion), a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based, Miami born artist, Austyn Weiner. Following the recurring presence of figurativism in her work, Weiner pulls from the history and narrative of the canvas, cutting them out in reference to the figurative body. Placing the coexistence of space in form, and the concision of the body into the landscape, these works are attached to personal narratives of travel and intimacy, both fertile and traumatic. (Mid-Explosion) denotes and engages a recourse in chaos—an ode to the chaotic. A duality of forces that are influential and abject to the subjective mind; romance, play, rejection, danger, isolation, and performance. The layering of incoherent mediums - charcoal, house paint, crayon, acrylic, oil paint, and oil stick, suggest a disposition of combative struggle, and distressed victory. Scraped and strained through a series of sudden gestures but elongated processes, the work teases notions of attraction and availability, but are not without the utter co-dependence of fear and constant rebirth. A type of estranged perspective of form, structure, and change, with a willingness—or resistance to that estrangement, the shapes are a ritual in self exploration. Unsettled shapes, as seemingly set for and from the other, design a melodic series of determined gestures. Austyn depicts the presence of the androgynous body—the dense female body—recurrently her own body. Austyn Weiner was born 1989 in Miami, Florida. Austyn studied photography and painting at the University of Michigan - School of Art and Design (Ann Arbor, MI) and Parsons School of Photography (New York, NY), In 2018 she worked with UNICEF in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh; Solo and group exhibitions include Here’s Your Fucking Flower, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles; Wilhardt & Naud, The Lodge, Los Angeles; and curated the group exhibition We The People, a benefit for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) at Werkärtz, Los Angeles. Austyn lives and works in Los Angeles, California.