Alex Weinstein

Alex Weinstein’s process reflects his training in the school of traditional painting. The seemingly ambiguous and quietly tonal paintings come from the extensive layering and building of color. The spectrum of the under-painted palette reveals itself as the ambient light around the painting changes. Weinstein has long since employed the traditional subject of the ocean as the vehicle through which he explores broader principles of interest. The paintings inevitably transcend the conventional depiction of the ocean and establish a new dialogue about painting.

Weinstein works simultaneously in an additive painterly manner and an extremely reductive and subtle approach. His new paintings endeavor to bring together on one picture plane the concepts of minimalism—objecthood, abstraction, and representation. The confluence of these three ideas in a singular painting yields imagery filled with both synonymous and opposing principles 

Weinstein has shown his works in a number of exhibitions including Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA, Second Floor, Marfa, TX, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, Berman Turner Project, Santa Monica, MOAH Museum of Art History, Lancaster, Greenroom Festival, Yokohama, JAPAN, Laguna Art Museum, and Laguna Beach, CA, among others. 

Courtesy of Leslie Sacks Gallery