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Benjamin Spock Juvenile Delinquent, 2013
9.5/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Joseph Stalin Farmer Boy, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Aline, Countess of Romanones, The Spy Wore Red, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Anatomy Artistic, 2013
34.25/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Appolinaire And Common Sense, 2013
3/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Appolinaire Candy And A Hootenanny Tonight, 2013
12.5/20.5
mixed media on paper
Astronomy, 2013
3/10.25
mixed media on paper
Atlas, 2013
15.25/20.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Banking Law In The United States, The Secret Window, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Campaign Funds, Eye Popping Optical Illusions, 2013
6.25/10.25
mixed media on paper
Campaign Management, 2013
12.75/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Canada Description And Travel, 2013
18.75/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Capital Punishment, Black Beauty, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Carley Simon And The Trapp Family Singers, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Chinese Fiction Milano, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Christian Marriage, Rhythm and Oral Pleading, 2013
3/15.25
mixed media on paper
Chutzpah, Surviving Hitler, 2013
3/10.25
mixed media on paper
Bill Clinton The Grey King, 2013
6.25/10.25
mixed media on paper
Czech, 2013
9.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Dali, Salvador, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Dali, Salvador 2, 2013
15.75/20.75 inches
mixed media on paper
Damaged Goods, 2013
9.5/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Divina Comedia, 2013
28.25/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Drugs, Law And Legislation, 2013
9.5/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Drug Space Flight, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Erica Jong A Nun's Story, 2013
3/5.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Erik Satie, 2013
6.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Executive Ability, 2013
6.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Executive Ability 2, 2013
3/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Executive Ability 3, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Executive Psychology, 2013
18.75/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Free To Be You And Me, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Giuliani, Rudolph, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Grandma Moses, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
How To? 2013
30.75/20.75 inches
mixed media on paper
How To Set And Style Your Own Wig, Make Friends, And Influence People, 2013
33.25/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Hubbard L. Ron Discovers Aerospace Children, 2013
9.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Hubbard L. Ron Space Garbage, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Human Ecology, Hummels, Figurines and Plates, 2013
18.75/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Identity Fiction, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
I'm Proud I'm Scared, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Jacob Lawrence, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Jean Genet and Joan Crawford, A Study, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Jewels Of The Madonna And The Fabulous Mae West, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Jewish Law And The Fine Art Of Hypochondria, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Juvenile Literature, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Kirsten Learns A Lesson, 2013
9.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Juvenile Delinquents, 2013
12.75/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Kubler Ross, Elizabeth And The Great Depression, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
L'air Du Temps, 2013
12.75/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Les Miserables, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 2013
6.25/5 inches
mixed media on paper
Little Bunny's Easter Surprise, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
London Honerable, 2013
12.75/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Mark Spitz The Splendid Outcast, 2013
12.25/20.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Mark Spitz The Splendid Outcast 2, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Meatball Inferno, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
O.J. 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Ordeal Of Ambition, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Orphans And The Swiss Family Robinson, 2013
9.25/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Physics, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Princess, 2013
3/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Robert Hughes And The Little House In The Big Woods, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Robins, Harold, Spellbinder, Lures Of Precious Stones, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Ronald Reagan Essential Oils, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
San Francisco Earthquake, Gardening Difficulties Solved, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Scary Bill Cosby, 2013
9.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Secrets Of The Libyan Caves, 2013
18.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Self Esteem Fiction, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Seuss, Dr, 2013
15/20 inches
mixed media on paper
Sex Role Fiction, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Shirley MacLane Out On A Limb And Dancing In The Light, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Odysseus Comes From The Sea, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Someday I'm Going To Be Somebody (Satan) 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Space Flight, 2013
15.75/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Spherical Trigonometry See Trigonometry, 2013
3/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Spies In The Sky, 2013
34.5/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Spirit See Holy Spirit, 2013
18.75/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Spiritual Life, 2013
18.5/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Spiritual Life 2, 2013
15.75/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Spock's World And The War Of The Worlds, 2013
3/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Sports Activities For Girls And Women, 2013
15.75/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Switzerland Fiction, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
The Amazing World Of Kreskin, 2013
12.5/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
The Castles Of Ludwig ll Of Bavaria, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
The Dream Of Hitler, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
The Homosexuals As Seen By Themselves And Thirty Authorities, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
The Prince And The Pauper, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
The Snow Queen, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
The Thousand Hour Day, 2013
12.5/20.5 inches
mixed media on paper
The World Of Dylan Thomas, 2013
37/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Things Not Seen, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Three Green Men And Jesus Christ Fiction, 2013
3/15.5 inches
mixed media on paper
Tomorrow's Managers, 2013
27.75/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Verne, Jules, 2013
6.25/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Voyage Of Vengeance, 2013
6.25/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Walt Whitman And A Walk In Space, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Warrior In White, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
What Makes A Goya A Goya, 2013
15.75/15.25 inches
mixed media on paper
White Smoke Over The Vatican, 2013
3/10.25 inches
mixed media on paper
White Smoke Over The Vatican 2. 2013
9.25/15.25
mixed media on paper
Who Are Henry Bamman And Joanna Lacy, 2013
12.75/20.25 inches
mixed media on paper
Astronomy 2, 2013
78/45 inches
mixed media on paper
Giant: A Screenplay, 2013
two volume 20 page artist's book
12/20 inches each
mixed media on paper and leather
MATTHEW WEINSTEIN
797.2 Sp. Spitz, Mark. F. Mar.
The Splendid Outcast, 1987, 139p.
November 21 – January 18, 2014
At Carolina Nitsch Project Room
Opening: Nov 21, 2013
MATTHEW WEINSTEIN
797.2 Sp. Spitz, Mark. F. Mar.
The Splendid Outcast, 1987, 139p.
November 21 – January 18, 2014
At Carolina Nitsch Project Room
Opening: Nov 21, 2013
MATTHEW WEINSTEIN
797.2 Sp. Spitz, Mark. F. Mar.
The Splendid Outcast, 1987, 139p.
November 21 – January 18, 2014
At Carolina Nitsch Project Room
Opening: Nov 21, 2013
Art In America
Art News
MATTHEW WEINSTEIN
797.2 Sp. Spitz, Mark. F. Mar.
The Splendid Outcast, 1987, 139p.
November 21 – January 18, 2014
At Carolina Nitsch Project Room
Opening: Nov 21, 2013
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/matthew-weinstein-2-56861/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jewish-art-show-jew-york-2255/
Technological obsolescence creates mountains of discarded machines which are off gassing into the atmosphere. Questions like ‘what powers the internet or blockchain’ are sidestepped by discourse about progress. Electric cars necessitate Lithium mining. Wind turbines need copper, which is mined.
Weinstein uses the library card as a symbol of discarded technology. He began ordering boxes of them on eBay for prices so low it seemed odd that anyone even bothered to list them.
Each box contained chunks of information from card catalogues. So each box contained various obsessions. The Kennedys, Astronomy, Thomas Kinkade, WWII, The Royal Family, Dogs, among others.
By selecting cards from different boxes, they began to communicate with each other. Sometimes within a category and sometimes between categories; Joke and punchline, rhyme, shared melancholy, and eroticism are among the commonalities of these cards that Weinstein brings together out of the unbridgeable alphabetical distance that once kept them apart.
Weinstein then began to stamp them with his own imagery: fish, waves, blood splatters, skeletons and plants, like a librarian using an encrypted form of the card catalogue to create an allegorical system.
Press Release
Weinstein's catalog cards are configured as pairs and larger groups, arranged on an underlying grid which provides a structural network for the work. Unique bookworks comprised of small groupings of these cards will also be on view. The imagery is sometimes contained to individual cards, but often spills from one card to the next creating a complex tiled work. The overlaid images are iconographic figures and objects, such as fish and skeletons, common throughout much of Weinstein's work.
Weinstein began acquiring piles of these cards from ebay. They arrived from different locations around the country, from different decades, and from different types of libraries specializing in different types of books. Hand annotated by librarians and smudged by generations of index fingers, they each carried their own history. Weinstein began randomly selecting them from different piles. Patterns, puns, jokes and coincidences occurred that spanned location, subject and time; a dada poetry emerged. Then he began to draw and print on them, using images from his own repertoire that have no direct relation to the subjects of the cards, and an abstract narrative emerged, one nudged along but never pushed.
As libraries have thrown away their card catalogues, we no longer search for information horizontally and sequentially. The internet search is guided by free association, random patterns of investigation and personalization. The internet is like a box of library file cards tossed on the ground; a sequence turns into a mound and the act of finding one piece of information causes us to associate it with whatever random bits of information come our way.
Weinstein's work has always been based on the linking of different ideas and images that have no logical connections into narratives that almost make sense, but fall short of logical build ups of sequence in order to allow the subjectivity of the viewer to dominate his own experience of the work. The medium that Weinstein always floats his associations in is the intensity of the visual experience he delivers, and over the years he has utilized painting, animation, music, drawing and sculpture to achieve this. Looking is the way into this work, just as it is in abstraction, and it has always been Weinstein's intention to find a place in art that can dissolve.
These pieces were first exhibited in the exhibition:
MATTHEW WEINSTEIN
797.2 Sp. Spitz, Mark. F. Mar.
The Splendid Outcast, 1987, 139p.
November 21 – January 18, 2014
At Carolina Nitsch Project Room
Opening: Nov 21, 2013
They were also included in the exhibition Jew York at Zach Feuer. Review link is below.
http://www.artnews.com/2013/06/27/jewish-art-show-jew-york/