Aron wiesenfeld

“Ink, graphite, and gouache on paper, 10x10"”

Join me in conversation with painter Aron Wiesenfeld on his wild, whimsical worlds. Looking at his nostalgic paintings is like waking up from a dream.

The central theme of my paintings is about finding a personal sense order in a confusing, chaotic, and meaningless world. The lead players of these paintings, naively, and in the moral clarity of youth, yearn for a state of perfection. In seeking for it, they come to the boundaries of mortality. Such an ideal state is not of this world, though it can be glimpsed by the mind, as if across a chasm.The paintings are made with oil paint, and the drawings are done in charcoal.

Aron Wiesenfeld ©2009, charcoal on paper, 50"x38" www.aronwiesenfeld.com

Aron Wiesenfeld makes paintings and charcoal drawings in which he evokes a reality that is at once familiar and mysterious. These poetic and carefully composed fragments are windows into an autonomous world that continues off the edges of the canvas. They trigger stories in the imagination that can take the shape of fairy tales, or more complex forms, questioning modern-day alienation. References to art history, mythology, and pop culture converge without hierarchical order amid the…

Aron Wiesenfeld ©2009, charcoal on canvas, 53"x39" www.aronwiesenfeld.com

The central theme of my paintings is about finding a personal sense order in a confusing, chaotic, and meaningless world. The lead players of these paintings, naively, and in the moral clarity of youth, yearn for a state of perfection. In seeking for it, they come to the boundaries of mortality. Such an ideal state is not of this world, though it can be glimpsed by the mind, as if across a chasm.The paintings are made with oil paint, and the drawings are done in charcoal.