ANNOUNCING OUR NEWEST ARTIST: JASON NEEDHAM
Photo by Madeline Brice
Weinberger Fine Art is pleased to announce its representation of Kansas City based painter Jason Needham. WFA will feature the artist’s work for the first time this fall in his first solo exhibition with the gallery, more details to come.
Jason has had a long-standing interest in impressionism, post-impressionism, and early American modernists like Marsden Hartley, David Hockney, Neil Welliver, Alex Katz, and Lois Dodd, which is evident in his purposefully placed color blocks and unexpected compositions. He’s drawing and painting scenes that are very familiar to him: still life or interior compositions taken from his home, forest scenes just off the beaten path, or a pocket of woods near an interstate. He claims that the trick is to see these mundane moments as majestic while allowing the mistakes of the hand and misconceptions of the eye to be as present as the purposeful. He likes the paintings to coalesce from a distance but upon close inspection fall apart into marks, emphasizing the process of making, with the underlaying scaffolding of the image still visible. Each brushstroke becomes a single particle and the painting a wave of time-space.
Later the Same Sun, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in, $4,500 ($450 a month)
Star Turn, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in, $4,500 ($450 a month)
Whether he’s standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon or staring into the corner of a room, the investment in looking is the same. On one end, he’s working areas of the brain that lie deeper than the surface stream of thoughts, the self-narrating voice. On the other end, he’s pondering the fundamental structure of reality.
Jason has been hard at work producing several new large-scale works that will be included in his fall solo show. We are very excited to welcome him to the WFA family.
Contact art@weinbergerfineart.com with inquiries.
Flatfile Tours: Episodes 7 - 8; Mike Regnier and Mike Lyon
If you haven’t seen our Flatfile tours featuring our represented artists on our socials, you can view them right here on Art Talk.
Episode seven features the works of Kansas City based photographer Mike Regnier. Michael Regnier's photography has evolved over the years, guided by a desire to interpret the world around him with the freedom that other interpretive mediums offer. He wants to go beyond the reality of the image in the camera and begins by recording the scene with a high resolution digital camera. Then back in the studio, the real interpretation of the images begin. The images are spontaneous. He applies and reapplies layers of textures and colors until it feels right. In his work, he uses contemporary tools and methods to capture hints of the Pictorialist work of the past. He tries to convey the character of both the realistic and the abstract, by means of light, shade, color and texture all working together.
Episode eight features the work of Kansas City based artist Mike Lyon. His work is not digital art. Lyon is a pioneering figure in the emergent field of post-digital printmaking. Combining traditional art materials with automated machine tools and digital technology from the realm of industrial manufacturing, Lyon has developed innovative processes for making his images. Lyon’s work is made with ink and paper, printed from wood blocks and copper plates, or drawn with a pen, but instead of employing the use of his hand, he uses a CNC machine which he’s coded instructions to direct the router’s bit along the X, Y, and Z axis.
Email art@weinbergerfineart.com for pricing and availability. Thanks for watching!
Flatfile Tour Episode Six: Leonard Koenig
If you haven’t seen our Flatfile tours featuring our represented artists on our socials, you can view them right here on Art Talk.
Episode six features the works of the late Leonard Koenig, Professor Emeritus of Studio Art at UMKC from 1971 to 2014. He was captivated by the sea and the ever-changing possibilities of the landscape around us. He created expansive collage-like landscapes in the physical and digital realm with bright swashes of color and captivating textures. His art acts as a reminder to us of a man with quite special sensitivities and exceptional talents.
Email art@weinbergerfineart.com for pricing and availability. Thanks for watching!
Flatfile Tour Episode Six: Leonard Koenig
