# Matthew Weinstein > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Matthew_Weinstein > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Matthew_Weinstein.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Weinstein > Source revision: 1352599293 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American painter}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2014}} '''Matthew Weinstein''' (born May 6, 1964 in New York City) is an American visual artist, [installation](/source/installation_art) sculptor and film maker. ==Art== Matthew Weinstein's early works throughout the 1990s focused on [gestural abstraction](/source/gestural_abstraction), [cartoon](/source/cartoon) drawing, photographic-based imagery of ghostly images,[https://web.archive.org/web/20070509192530/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19013636.html Heartney, Eleanor. 1997. Matthew Weinstein at Sonnabend (New York City), Art in America, January 1 issue]. Retrieved June 13, 2009. and a fascination with blood, death, skulls and bones.[Edward Leffingwell](/source/Edward_Leffingwell), [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_94/ai_n26857948/ "Matthew Weinstein at Sonnabend"], ''Art in America'', May 1, 2006. Retrieved June 13, 2009. Currently, Weinstein's primary [medium](/source/List_of_artistic_mediums) is [3D animation](/source/3D_animation) and [3D rendering](/source/3D_rendering). Using the [3D modeling](/source/3D_modeling) and rendering program [Maya](/source/Autodesk_Maya), he creates videos of animated spectacles, involving actors, musicians and animators. He then creates paintings and sculptures using a wide variety of technologies, such as [bronze casting](/source/bronze_casting), [rapid prototyping](/source/rapid_prototyping) sculpture, [airbrush](/source/airbrush), [stenciling](/source/stenciling) and [resin casting](/source/resin_casting). As Weinstein's cast of [virtual](/source/Virtuality) singing characters expands, a [digital](/source/Digital_data) repertory company begins to exist, with characters from one project appearing in another, or in a painting or a sculpture.[http://chelseaartgalleries.com/Sonnabend/Matthew+Weinstein+2006.html 2006 Sonnabend Gallery exhibit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709050641/http://chelseaartgalleries.com/Sonnabend/Matthew+Weinstein+2006.html |date=July 9, 2008 }}. Retrieved June 13, 2009. Weinstein's [digital](/source/Digital_media) drawings and videos explore the often ambiguous line between reality and unreality in an American culture that increasingly experiences reality through the filter of a [virtual world](/source/virtual_world). In contrast to the precision-like rendering of his constructed and sculptural compositions, the overall impact of this work is one of unreality, or rather "hyperclarity", in which reality and unreality merge, becoming indistinguishable. Drawing on a number of influences, most notably early [Japanese animation](/source/Japanese_animation) and the ancient [aesthetic](/source/aesthetic) discipline of [Ikebana](/source/Ikebana) [floral arrangement](/source/floral_arrangement) to futuristic science fiction, Weinstein sets up a balance between the real and the abstract as well as nature and artifice. For the animated [video installation](/source/video_installation) entitled "SIAM", a computer animation of a couple of [Siamese fighting fish](/source/Siamese_fighting_fish), Weinstein wrote both the music and choreographed the performance.[http://www.baldwingallery.com/0708_ts-wc/press-release.htm 2008 Baldwin Gallery exhibit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003121818/http://www.baldwingallery.com/0708_ts-wc/press-release.htm |date=October 3, 2008 }}. Retrieved June 13, 2009. ==Life== Matthew Weinstein grew up in New York City with his father, [I. Bernard Weinstein](/source/I._Bernard_Weinstein), who headed the Herbert Irving [Comprehensive Cancer Center](/source/Comprehensive_Cancer_Center) at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) and has been credited with helping create the field of [molecular epidemiology](/source/molecular_epidemiology), and his mother, the former Joan Anker; and his sisters Claudia, of [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan), and Tamara, of [Atlanta, Georgia](/source/Atlanta%2C_Georgia).[http://www.docstoc.com/docs/6766577/Obituary-from-the-Wisconsin-State-Journal-Weinstein-I-Bernard, Obituary of I. Bernard Weinstein]. Retrieved June 13, 2009. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) in 1987. Weinstein lives and works in New York. Weinstein's primary gallery is the [Sonnabend Gallery](/source/Sonnabend_Gallery) in New York. He is also represented by the Baldwin Gallery in [Aspen, Colorado](/source/Aspen%2C_Colorado) and exhibits nationally and internationally. In 2004 alone, his work was the subject of a major installation at the [Pinakothek der Moderne](/source/Pinakothek_der_Moderne) in Munich, Germany, and his films were projected in the [Kunsthalle](/source/Kunsthalle) [Vienna, Austria](/source/Vienna%2C_Austria) and screened at The [Wexner Center for the Arts](/source/Wexner_Center_for_the_Arts) in [Columbus, Ohio](/source/Columbus%2C_Ohio). Weinstein is the recipient of many awards, including a Wexner Center for the Arts grant. ==Museum Collections== Weinstein's works of art are in private and public collections around the world, including the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art) in New York, the [Nassau County Museum of Art](/source/Nassau_County_Museum_of_Art) in [Roslyn, NY](/source/Roslyn%2C_NY), the [Sammlung Goetz](/source/Sammlung_Goetz) and the [Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen](/source/Bayerische_Staatsgem%C3%A4ldesammlungen) in Munich, Germany. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.matthewweinstein.com Mathew Weinstein’s home page] *[http://www.artnet.com/sonnabend.html Home page of Sonnabend Gallery] *[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_94/ai_n26857948/ Review of 2006 exhibit at Sonnabend Gallery in Art in America] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081003121818/http://www.baldwingallery.com/0708_ts-wc/press-release.htm Matthew Weinstein at Baldwin Gallery] *[http://www.askart.com/askart/w/matthew_weinstein/matthew_weinstein.aspx Matthew Weinstein at AskArt] *[http://bombmagazine.org/article/10099/matthew-weinstein 2014 ''Bomb Magazine'' interview of Matthew Weinstein by Laurie Simmons] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Weinstein, Matthew}} Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:20th-century American painters Category:American male painters Category:21st-century American painters Category:20th-century American sculptors Category:20th-century American male artists Category:21st-century American sculptors Category:21st-century American male artists Category:American male sculptors Category:American video artists Category:Painters from New York City Category:Sculptors from New York (state) Category:American contemporary painters Category:Columbia College, Columbia University alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Matthew Weinstein](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Weinstein) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Weinstein?action=history)). 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