EMILY WEINER FEATURED IN WALL STREET JOURNAL Highlighting the ART FOR CHANGE artist's recent press
Wall Street Journal article featuring Emily Weiner’s show “Now Eve, We’re Here, We’ve Won” at Miles McEnery Gallery. Photo courtesy of Miles McEnery Gallery.
Emily Weiner’s latest exhibition, Now Eve, We’re Here, We’ve Won, was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal. In his review, Brian P. Kelly writes, “Ms. Weiner is a master of imagery, repurposing but never appropriating her subjects. She makes the familiar excitingly new, invitingly mysterious, and alluringly gnostic.”
Through her work, Weiner filters Jungian symbolism through a feminist lens, exploring how stories are passed down through generations.She views the theater as a parallel space to painting—both mediums offering a stage where action and attention can be shaped beyond the rational confines of the physical world.
In her 2024 hand-embellished limited edition print with ART FOR CHANGE, Confluence, Weiner continues to explore themes of mystery, symbolism, and transformation.
EMILY WEINER Confluence Archival pigment print 14 x 11.5 inches
Limited edition of 15 with 5AP + 1 PP Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
In Confluence, a pair of symmetrical curtain panels frame a gradient sky distinguished by a celestial body that resides singularly at the center of the composition. Typically interpreted as a moon, this circular motif recurs throughout most of Weiner’s paintings, intended as a reference to the notion of eternal return. Meanwhile, the curtains harken back to the theater stages that inspire the artist, while signifying the unveiling of common perception.
Emily Weiner with her ART FOR CHANGE print “Confluence."
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Emily Weiner is an American painter living and working in Nashville, TN. She received a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University and her MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. By reconfiguring symbols which 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. Weiner approaches each painting intuitively, and by working in many layers of paint, finds synchronicity in combinations of colors, forms, and symbols. She creates multimedia frames to further demarcate spaces of suspended disbelief in each of her paintings.
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