Jonathan Viner Painter USA 1976

Born in 1976, the Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Viner moved to New York City, where he lives and works today, after receiving a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998.
Viner’s work draws upon a broad range of cultural influences that include a variety of Old Masters, contemporary American pop culture, and psychology. A significant theme in his work is the exploration of power relationships, particularly as they relate to safety and danger.
While his subjects are carefully delineated, Viner’s work offers the viewer space for contemplation, introspection, and conversation.
The works of Viner feature enigmatic still images, which put the viewer in the balance between a seductive and intriguing calm seemingly reassuring “scenario”, and a simultaneous change in ambush, which is intentionally and carefully censored by the missing shots, the voice-over, and from all that we do not hear or see because it is happening a few inches from our canvas, but that still is present and legible between the lines and the details, seemingly random, scattered like objects in a crime scene.
In this way, Viner invites us to retrace the forgotten corners of our past or present everyday living room, leading us to sit on the couch, reassured in front of our TV set, or to reap the fruits of our home’s garden. By watching through binoculars the happy domestic scenery pictured with an unavoidable palette, Viner leads us to doubting, to horror vacui, to concerns that emerge from childhood memories, among the pages turned by the wind of a book yet to be titled.
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Music: Albany New York - The 126ers
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