Elaine Weiner-Reed creates abstract assemblages in shape, color, and line. Finding beauty in the unfinished, her work focuses on relationship dynamics and everyday or chance encounters as they impact identity. She lets the form and placement of figures imply subsurface content and emotion.
Intuition | Intellectual Curiosity | Imagination
…with a healthy disregard for artistic convention.
Elaine Weiner-Reed’s “Masks and Mirrors - Explorations of Identity” collection honors the human spirit in all its colors, resiliency, and fortitude. Her work is an excavation into the psychology of relationships - from the inside, out. Focusing on unraveling the complexity and mystery of human emotion, choices, motivations, and behavior, she features the individual within or outside of a group dynamic. Weiner-Reed seeks answers to life’s riddles and challenges using the tools of an artist to document her findings, leave clues, and mark the path. Focused on transience and imperfection, some themes that run through her work are telling the unknown or hidden stories. With analytic precision and an intuitive soul, she explores the evolution of one’s identity in all its layers - from glimpses in the mirror to introspection across time, highlighting facets of each character’s solitary existence within an increasingly globalized world.
Elaine Weiner-Reed honors the individual spirit and personal history of different individuals, envisioning their stories as pictorial medleys evolving as their worlds turn. Monuments to life, her creations resurrect feelings of transcendence, mystery, and hope.
“Life is messy, unfinished, and beautiful.”
- Elaine Weiner-Reed ® TM ©
"How do my artworks sound to you?"
How would you write their story?
How would you compose or play their mood, the scene?
If my work speaks to you, play it, write it, tell it… and share it with me.
Metal, Welded Assemblages
I was inspired to create this new series thanks to the music created LIVE in my Gallery exhibition (Summer 2018). Five original Structured Improvisational pieces paired to my original paintings and sculptures (Talking Story, The Gathering - Still Waiting, Mirror Mirror, Vision Quest, Resurrection, and Chance Encounters) were created by gifted musicians from Rogue Collective.
I hope you enjoy this new sculpture series, “Visual Acoustics.” See the music, just as you “hear” my paintings and sculptures!
24H x 14W x 14D inches
This sculpture was the third one I made based on drawings in my sketchbook - inspired by the 6 June 2018 “Every Painting is a Song” event during my “Masks and Mirrors - Explorations of Identity” solo exhibition at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.
24H x 14W x 14D inches
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This sculpture was the third one I made based on drawings in my sketchbook - inspired by the 6 June 2018 “Every Painting is a Song” event during my “Masks and Mirrors - Explorations of Identity” solo exhibition at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.
10H x 6W x 6D inches
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This small sculpture was the first one I made based on drawings in my sketchbook - inspired by the 6 June 2018 “Every Painting is a Song” event during my “Masks and Mirrors - Explorations of Identity” solo exhibition at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.
10H x 6W x 6D inches
(NFS)
This small sculpture was the first one I made based on drawings in my sketchbook - inspired by the 6 June 2018 “Every Painting is a Song” event during my “Masks and Mirrors - Explorations of Identity” solo exhibition at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.
My fourth musical instrument-inspired assemblage/sculpture.
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My fourth metal art assemblage/sculpture in the series.
How does it sound to you…?
(View 1)
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WORKS ON PAPER
Reading a room...sometimes it fairly crackles with energy. There are always backstories and undercurrents, more than meets the eye, reading between the lines, subtext….
What lies beneath, behind, and in-between?
Mixed Media on Paper (22 x 30 inches, Framed) $2400
Mixed Media on Paper (22 x 30 inches, Framed) $2400
Mixed Media on Paper (22 x 30 inches, Unframed) $2400
Mixed Media on Paper (22 x 30 inches, Framed) $2400