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artist in residence

studio 310b

Maryland Hall for the creative arts

Visit the artist at her studio - Wednesdays in 2018.

Contact her for studio hours the week you want to visit.

Address

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401

(410) 263-5544 | (410) 280-5640

Elaine Weiner-Reed

Masks and Mirrors: Explorations of Identity

Solo Exhibition

Chaney Gallery

Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts

Show Dates: May 15 – July 7, 2018

Reception and Gallery Talk: May 24 from 5:30 – 7 pm

Explore the evolution of your own identity in Weiner-Reed's "Identity Station."

Email address: ewr.muse@gmail.com

Address

801 Chase Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401

(410) 263-5544 | (410) 280-5640

Take the tour…

Audio Reflections on Artist Website

This art exhibition honors the human spirit and encompasses our visual, physical, and spiritual worlds.

While the dialogue began in my studio, I hope you join in…

Explore a virtual tour through life. The journey from one painting to the next is a progression through space and time. The paintings provide glimpses into life-changing stages and challenging times when we choose our attitude, shoulder a new way to keep going, or choose a new path, changing our destiny. Our world and identity are colored by experiences, feelings, thoughts, and perceptions.

Entering the gallery, the first section or wall of the show, which I refer to as “Looking Inward,” is organized from the perspective of our early years, when most of the information is processed from the perspective of how it impacts or matters to us (the ME years). Our world is contained or limited by many factors, and we are mainly doing what others tell us to do do…and trying to figure out what WE want, instead.

From there, you may choose to pause and watch my video* “Masks and Mirrors: Beyond Reality.” This short video provides a quick overview of elements to consider as reference points for why “Masks and Mirrors” became the overarching title for my ongoing body of work, and why I am fascinated with the evolution of identity.

As you can see, this second, longer wall is more color-rich, with lots of reds and bold colors. Many things are going on in the paintings, and a lot of emotion is conveyed, along with mystery portrayed in the scenes, people, or titles. There is a lot of material, stories within stories... I refer to this wall as the “Inside/Outside” wall, meaning inside our heads, homes, and hearts…and within ourselves; yet it also takes us outside of ourselves, our cultures, our homes, and our comfort zones. You might think of it as the “leaving the nest” phase, where we venture outward, expanding social circles, language, experiences, knowledge, and impressions. In this phase, we are pushing our boundaries ever wider, opening our minds and our world. Perhaps we are reinventing ourselves, committing to relationships, traveling, defining our lives…

Present with us in the room, are three sculptures: “Many Faces,” “Awakening,” and “Resurrection.” As you slowly walk around and between them, see what you can discover. Consider this: Life is greater than the sum of its parts and so are we. There are mysteries to explore and masks to find. Examine the many facets, angles, shadows, and parts. Life is messy, unfinished, and beautiful. At times, we are vulnerable, unmasked, and our very undercarriage is exposed. But we walk on. We cast shadows, leave traces… We rise, tired, and sometimes broken, and by sheer will, right ourselves, even as it feels like our legs are made of stone and our heart is broken or missing… At such times, only our spirit keeps us among the living. We are survivors, we are the Phoenix Rising. These sculptures are memorials to all the everyday heroes I have known, those whom I call friend or colleague or neighbor, and those I only pass on the road or on the runway of life.

Into the alcove, the smaller room, we enter what I think of as the “Social Room.” Some Call it Chemistry… There are groups of people, yet the individuals remain unique, mysteries in a dynamic scene we try to unravel. Who are they? Why are they there? What is the gathering about? What happened before and after the scene captured in the paintings? Did someone just vacate the chairs or is someone expected any moment? What is the mood or energy captured in the rooms? Do you think you would join any of the get-togethers? How will the scene play out? What is the beginning? What is the ending? You tell me…* Gazing back-and-forth from the painted scenes to the four mirrors in the Identity Station, ask yourself: What – or who – do you see? Do you see yourself? Are you now within the scenes? They are reflected with you in the mirrors… What is real? How is our identity changed or altered over time and throughout a lifetime – on the inside and outside? How much control do we have? Do we “own” who we are? How much can we influence who we become?

As we re-enter the larger room, turn left. On a wall by itself, the painting “BraveHeart” joins the sculptures in paying tribute to courage and surviving what comes our way. Not perfect, not always fully formed, but alive and moving forward…

Finally, the last wall as we head back toward the entry door… I refer to this wall as the “Legacy” or “so what” wall. We are one person, and throughout our lifetime, we bump up against others, much as a pinball – sometimes on purpose, and sometimes at random. We search for our own brand of meaning and style and purpose. Our self-awareness expands as we reflect on our actions and consequences or what we do or don’t do. Who influenced us and who do we influence? Time is relative… Everything and everyone is relative, connected. Our world is vast, yet smaller every day. What positive difference or contribution have we made? What footprint remains after we exit?

From our perceptions of reality to our memories… Time is relative. We are a part of history. We remember, we relate, we teach, and we invent. From Ashes to Ashes…and dust to dust, our legacy determined and written in the paths we have taken, lives we have touched, hands we have held. In the Mirror, unmasked in the end is our legacy – reflected, fragile, temporal – and hopefully beautiful.

Thank you for coming and participating. Our legacies are connected.

Past Highlights

"Masks and Mirrors" - Solo Exhibition 2017

Source - http://www.capitalgazette.com/entertainment/ac-cn-gallery-20170903-story.html

Holley Gallery: “Elaine Weiner-Reed: Masks and Mirrors,” a solo exhibition which is a journey of reflection and introspection where you become part of the dialogue and performance. Weiner-Reed tees up a dialogue on the self — mirrors as reflections that are temporal, fragmentary, and flipped images of ourselves, and masks as voluntary and involuntary defense mechanisms. Bring your headphones to enjoy the interactive part of this exhibit. On display through Sept. 27. "

Source: http://www.capitalgazette.com/cgnews-the-gallery-september-2017-20170831-pg-008-photo.html

The Gallery: September 2017

Elaine Weiner-Reed, “Sticks and Stones”, acrylic and mixed media, for Holley Gallery

Courtesy photo

Copyright 2017 Elaine Weiner-Reed, “Sticks and Stones”

PAST Exhibition HIGHLIGHTS: PRESS & NEWS

Two artists, two views at Kish Gallery

Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/columbia/ph-ho-lt-weiner-fretz-0602-20160601-story.html

By:

Mike Giuliano

Columbia Flier

The photographs by Thomas Fretz and paintings by Elaine Weiner-Reed are so different in medium and method that you almost feel the need for a passport as you pass through the doorway from one exhibit to the next at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House.

It's not just a matter of the obvious technological difference between high-resolution digital photography and paintings that combine acrylic with other materials.

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Elaine Weiner-Reed gives the title "Honoring the Journey - Revealing Layers" to her mixed-media paintings. The operative word here is "layers," because the layering of paint and other material makes the already-schematic renderings of nude women seem even more partial and obscured.

The artist's individual painting titles and accompanying brief texts reinforce the sense of figures whose journey through life has many layers. The women typically are not given any individual psychological development, but instead have the totemic qualities associated with art as ancient as what you would expect to find in a cave painting depicting women in a primal, stick figure way.

"Joined by the Heart" and "Ancestral Whispers III" are but two of the paintings in which standing figures are outlined in such a sketchy way with thin definitional lines that the figures nearly melt into the layering of colors behind them and also partially over them.

Something relatively more specific and easy to make out can be seen in "Curtain Call," in which the pink-hued figures have enough presence to seem as if they are waiting just off stage for that curtain call.

Even more specific is "Group Dynamics," depicting three figures whose white bodies are outlined with thin black lines. Although this acrylic painting does not give us very much physical detail, the spare lines hint at facial expressions and hence emotional states in a manner evocative of the neo-classical figuration found in both Picasso and Matisse in the early 1920s..."

21 May - 21 September 2016, Trento, Italy

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

Human Rights?Diversity

HUMAN RIGHTS? #DIVERSITY

Elaine Weiner-Reed - "Mirror's Edge" - Permanent Collection, AIAIP (Italy)

Elaine Weiner-Reed - "Mirror's Edge" - Permanent Collection, AIAIP (Italy)

Human Rights?Diversity Exhibition – AIAIP (Associazione Internazional Arte Plastiche Italia), the Italian National Committee of IAA/IAIP UNESCO Official Partner: UN Day of Peace and UNESCO-Designated Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

Links to Related Press:

http://aiapi.it/diversityeng

https://www.facebook.com/groups/aiapitalia/

http://www.italiaartmagazine.it/human-rights-diversity/

http://www.spaziotempoarte.com/wp/diversity-en/

Press Release:

AIAPI | ASSOCIAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE ARTI PLASTICHE ITALIA – Comitato Nazionale IAA/AIAP UNESCO Official Partner

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hr.paziotempoarte.com

www.spaziotempoarte.com

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Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti AIAPI | ASSOCIAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE ARTI PLASTICHE ITALIA – Comitato Nazionale IAA/AIAP UNESCO Official Partner Spazio-Tempo Arte presents

'HUMAN RIGHTS?' #DIVERSITY THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION THAT TALKS ABOUT THE AMAZING VALUE OF THE DIVERSITY - Special Edition Curated by di Roberto Ronca

141 ARTISTS | 34 NATIONS

Dates: May 21th to September 21th - 2016

Location: Trento, Italy - Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti - Rovereto (Trento)

Partners: Italian Commition for UNESCO, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Comune di Rovereto.

Vernissage 21th May 2016, 5PM

HUMAN RIGHTS? #DIVERSITY wants to talk about diversity in every meaning. We want to extend the concept and mention of any kind of diversity. Not only cultural diversity but diversity in general as a factor for growth, openness and emotional ability to listen to the otherness, of awareness that we are ‘different’ than someone else. Diversity is wealth, is improvement of DNA, metaphorically and physically; sometimes is the result of personal choices, sometimes it is simply a matter of membership. The diversity of the other people is something we can often understand even just listening, even when the difference is not noticeable to the eye. Respect for diversity, in every way, is an essential right of men and women, boys and girls around the world. Diversity is a right, respect is a ought. In HUMAN RIGHTS? #DIVERSITY Artists speaks about the value of diversity but also about the violation of the respect for diversity, using the language of the art talking to everyone, overcoming all barriers.

THE ARTISTS

COUNTRIES

NETHERLANDS ITALY CURAÇAO BELGIUM FRANCE GERMANY ECUADOR USA COLOMBIA COSTA RICA UKRAINA POLAND SPAIN SWEDEN ICELAND INDIA BRAZIL LATVIA HUNGARY VENEZUELA BULGARIA GREECE AUSTRIA CANADA EGYPT LITHUANIA CZECH REPUBLIC NIGERIA SENEGAL MALI GAMBIA GHANA TOGO

The Concept The UNESCO declared on May 21th as The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. The Preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO affirms “that the wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice and liberty and peace are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all the nations must fulfil in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern”. The respect for the diversity of cultures, tolerance, dialogue and cooperation, in a climate of mutual trust and understanding are among the best guarantees of international peace and security. UNESCO, in the United Nations system, ensure the preservation and promotion of the fruitful diversity of cultures. This commitment has been strengthened over the years, and was further materialized with the adoption, in 2001, of the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, by which the international community has reaffirmed its agreement that the respect for cultural diversity and dialogue represent the best guarantee for development and for peace. The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity specifies that: Article 1 – Cultural diversity: the common heritage of humanity Culture takes diverse forms across time and space. This diversity is embodied in the uniqueness and plurality of the identities of the groups and societies making up humankind. As a source of exchange, innovation and creativity, cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. In this sense, it is the common heritage of humanity and should be recognized and affirmed for the benefit of present and future generations. Article 2 – From cultural diversity to cultural pluralism in our increasingly diverse societies, it is essential to ensure harmonious interaction among people and groups with plural, varied and dynamic cultural identities as well as their willingness to live together. Policies for the inclusion and participation of all citizens are guarantees of social cohesion, the vitality of civil society and peace. Thus defined, cultural pluralism gives policy expression to the reality of cultural diversity. Indissociable from a democratic framework, cultural pluralism is conducive to cultural exchange and to the flourishing of creative capacities that sustain public life. HUMAN RIGHTS? #DIVERSITY wants to talk about diversity in every meaning. We want to extend the concept and mention of any kind of diversity. Not only cultural diversity but diversity in general as a factor for growth, openness and emotional ability to listen to the otherness, of awareness that we are ‘different’ than someone else. Diversity is wealth, is improvement of DNA, metaphorically and physically; sometimes is the result of personal choices, sometimes it is simply a matter of membership. The diversity of the other people is something we can often understand even just listening, even when the difference is not noticeable to the eye. Respect for diversity, in every way, is an essential right of men and women, boys and girls around the world. Diversity is a right, respect is a ought. In HUMAN RIGHTS? #DIVERSITY Artists speaks about the value of diversity but also about the violation of the respect for diversity, using the language of the art talking to everyone, overcoming all barriers.

Previous Exhibition Highlights

NEW YORK CITY - January 2015

New Century Artists Gallery

"Dreams"

NCAG - 30 December 2014 - 17 January 2015 -
Artist Elaine Weiner-Reed at Reception

NCAG - 30 December 2014 - 17 January 2015 - Artist Elaine Weiner-Reed

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NEW YORK CITY

September - October 2014

New Century Artists Gallery "Memories" Featured Artist

NCAG - 30 September - 18 October 2014
Featured Artist Elaine Weiner-Reed

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International Artists' Residency Program and Scholarship

July - September 2014 Myslenice, Poland

Myslenice Art Residency experience

Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWR) - Cultural Center, Myslenice, Poland
(EWR Sculpture on pedestal; four paintings, wall; figures)

The YouTube Video depicts the artist's 2-week residency in Poland (2014) working on her two forms of art: painting and sculpture.

March 2014 - New York - HIGHLINE ART

Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWR)

Elaine Weiner-Reed - Mixed Media Paintings - Mar2014 - NY

New Century Artists Gallery

530 West 25th Street, Suite 406

New York, NY 10001

Tel: 212-367-7072

Curated by Basha Maryanska

Elaine Weiner-Reed - "Night Watch"

Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr) - "Night at the Improv"

See "After Midnight" Series/Tab for More in EWr's Mixed Media Jazz-inspired Series.

Review...

...of Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr)’s works in March 2014 International Contemporary Exhibition at New Century Artists Gallery (New York)

February/March 2014
GALLERY&STUDIO

(pps. 19, 23)

“HIGHLINE ART”

     "Elaine Weiner-Reed moves easily between the two genres ((abstract and representational)) as well,
but tends to veer more frequently toward abstract expressionist mixed media works incorporating a variety of different collage and mixed media materials: lengths of rope, patches of pigment-encrusted cloth or burlap, fragments of wood, bits of wire –– apparently anything near at hand that can be swept up into the painting process. Possessed of a compelling physicality, compositions such as Weiner-Reed’s “Night at the Improv” and “Jazz Trills and the Dance” are enlivened by a uniquely funky beauty."

                                                                                                                                                     - Maurice Taplinger

January 2014 - Featured Artist - New York

Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr)

Featured Artist

"Awakening" - International Contemporary Exhibition

New Century Artists Gallery

530 West 25th Street, Suite 406,
New York, NY 10001
Tell: 212-367-7072
Curated by Basha Maryanska

Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr) - Red, Black, & Blond - Mixed Media (41 X 61 inches)

February/March 2014
GALLERY&STUDIO (pps. 9, 23)

Art review of Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr)’s works as Featured Artist in January 2014 International Contemporary Exhibition at New Century Artists Gallery (Chelsea, New York) entitled…

"Awakening"

"One of her ((Basha Maryanska, Curator)) main criteria seems to be selecting artists with fertile imaginations and inexhaustible creative resources such as one sees in the work of the Abstract Expressionist painter Elaine Weiner-Reed. Although based in Annapolis, Maryland, Weiner-Reed works in the tradition of New York School “action painters” like Willem de Kooning and Grace Hartigan, applying her vigorous brushwork to nonobjective and figurative compositions with equal spontaneity and zest. Like Hartigan’s famous painting “Delancey Street Brides,” Weiner-Reed’s “Red, Black, and Blond” achieves a successful synthesis of both, with a bold image of a voluptuous woman in a shoulderless red top and black slacks evoked in flowing, succulent strokes. Although the figures are not defined and her surroundings are indicated in a broad undetailed manner, the picture appears to be a self-portrait, depicting the artist in her studio, the manner in which she merges with her surroundings, suggesting her passionate engagement with her vocation.

“Here, Weiner- Reed’s ability to suggest so much within the self-imposed limitations of a loose gestural style calls to mind another member of the New York School: Robert de Niro, Sr., late father of the well known actor. Similarly generalized, yet possessed of individuality nonetheless are the three figures in another canvas entitled “Group Dynamics.” Working mainly in line, with key patches of color, applied with characteristic vigor, to knit the composition together at key points, Weiner- Reed employs the linear technique to suggest the physical and emotional connections, as well as the inevitable psychological tensions, of family life to which title alludes. Equally formidable in a more formal but no less intense manner are Weiner-Reed’s purely abstract compositions, such as “Vision Quest,” and “Unraveling Mysteries” in which she takes on more inner-directed subjects and metaphysical concerns."

-Byron Coleman

Elaine Weiner-Reed @ "Awakening" Reception, NCAG, NY (Jan 2014)

"Awakening" International Contemporary Exhibition - NY
(Reception Album) http://pwh3.com/reception011114/

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Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr) - Exhibiting Artist

Espacio 120 for its Salon del Arte Primavera 2014

Press includes:

http://www.lavanguardia.com/local/baix-llobregat/20140523/54407196630/l-hospitalet-salon-arte-primavera.html

Espacio 120 (Barcelona) - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Espacio120/555251497853259

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Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr) - Exhibiting Artist 2014

Studio 26 Gallery (NYC) for exhibition at the Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong.

http://asiacontemporaryart.com/artists/galleries/Studio_26_Gallery/en/

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10 December 2013 to 4 January 4 2014 - New York

"Small is Great" - Contemporary Small Works Exhibition

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"UP-SURD" - International Contemporary Exhibition

Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWR)

Featured Artist in “UP-SURD”
New Century Artists Gallery - Chelsea, New York

International Contemporary Art Exhibit

June/August 2013

GALLERY&STUDIO

Art review of Elaine Weiner-Reed (EWr)’s works as Featured Artist in June 2013 International Contemporary Exhibition at New Century Artists Gallery (Chelsea, New York) entitled…

"UP-SURD"

"Studio and Gallery" art critic Maurice Taplinger appreciated the relationship of Elaine Weiner-Reed's paintings as a type of improvisational dance, concluding that "...as in a Pollock, the sense of a rhythmic dance remains an integral element of the painting long after it has left the artist's studio..." Taplinger noted that Weiner-Reed's work showed "a strong formal orientation...in the neocubistic structuring that serves as an armature for her composition 'Sands of Time,' where vertical linear configuration acts as a 'spine' supporting various rectangular forms...." Taplinger added that "...other softer looser abstract expressionist compositions such as the mixed media work on canvas called 'Blue Notes Soliloquy' reveals the kinship that Weiner-Reed feels with jazz improvisation."

Featured Artist: Elaine Weiner-Reed. Curated by Basha Maryanska

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