Selected Works

Miles McEnery Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Emily Weiner. The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will open on 26 June at 511 West 22nd Street and remain on view through 15 August. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated digital publication featuring an essay by Mitch Speed.

Emily Weiner’s hypnotic scenes hover between the conscious and subconscious. Using symmetry, architectural cues, and planetary bodies, her compositions are trance-like and deeply resonant, luring the viewer into and beyond the painted surface. Despite featuring familiar forms (waxing and waning moons, poised hands, even F-holes from a violin) Weiner’s paintings do not insist on any single narrative.

Folded curtains, portals, and spotlights recur as theatrical elements throughout Weiner’s work, as if scenes on stage. But unlike theater—which often relies on illusion, concealing the inner workings behind the curtain—Weiner invites the viewer backstage, exposing the inner machinations. She crafts unique wooden and ceramic clay frames for each painting, which further immerse the viewer in her compositions. They stretch the pictorial space beyond the traditional bounds of the canvas, such that the resulting painting is not a static composition, but a shrine-like site of entry into an alternate dimension.

Most recently, Weiner began using CNC milling to shape her panels, employing trigonometric and logarithmic equations to create three-dimensional, tactile surfaces. Her use of Fibonacci sequences and wave functions subtly reference the underpinnings of the universe, the hidden mathematical rhythm that governs our existence. With a finely tuned balance of the technical and the intuitive, Weiner gives form to something just out of reach: a collective memory taking shape.