EMILY WEINER | 26 JUNE - 15 AUGUST 2025 | Miles McEnery Gallery

EMILY WEINER
Magnifier, 2024
Oil on linen in ceramic frame
24 x 22 x 1 1/2 inches
61 x 55.9 x 3.8 cm
EMILY WEINER
Ad Infinitum, 2025
Oil on linen in painted wood frame
61 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 inches
156.2 x 118.1 x 5.1 cm
"In a broader sense, the pictures cycle around layered sensory and symbolic modes. They signify and they reverberate: Look at them in a series, and you see icons and forms looping, like notes in music . . . Paradoxically, each image bridges a split perception: On one side, we have the realm of symbols, on the other, a resonant capacity, shared between the body and musical instruments. In this way, vision is drawn into cross-sensory alignment: The eye is nudged toward sound, and the mind creeps toward metaphor. Every painting draws strength from its perpetually off-register position."

- Mitch Speed in "Emily Weiner: Pulling Strings"
EMILY WEINER
Crepuscule, 2025
Oil on linen in stoneware frame
14 x 11 x 1 3/4 inches
35.6 x 27.9 x 4.4 cm
Emily Weiner's studio in Nashville, TN, 2024. Photography by Jessie Watts.
EMILY WEINER
Double Slit, 2025
Oil on shaped MDF in walnut frame
21 x 17 x 1 3/4 inches
53.3 x 43.2 x 4.4 cm
EMILY WEINER
Emergence, 2025
Oil on linen in painted wood frame
50 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches
127.6 x 92.1 x 3.8 cm
EMILY WEINER
Excavation, 2025
Oil on linen in painted wood frame
61 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
156.2 x 118.1 x 3.8 cm
Fibonacci (detail), 2025.
EMILY WEINER
Fibonacci, 2025
Oil on linen in painted wood frame
61 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
156.2 x 118.1 x 3.8 cm
EMILY WEINER
Guidance, 2025
Oil on shaped MDF in walnut frame
21 x 17 x 1 3/4 inches
53.3 x 43.2 x 4.4 cm
"Lately, Weiner has been producing formed supports for her paintings in collaboration with the woodworker Ari Kardasis, whose role is to transfer her shapes into mathematical formulas, which are then executed by a CNC router . . . Often shaped into rhythmic, wave-like contours, they metabolize the energy of their respective images. Their shapes give tactile form to the virtual tremors of the surface and underline the kinship of those forms with everything inside or outside of the frame. The wave, after all, is a structure that touches every scale of experience—from the visible vibrations of a struck drumhead to the invisible frequencies that structure our lives."

- Mitch Speed in "Emily Weiner: Pulling Strings"
EMILY WEINER
Interference, 2025
Oil on shaped MDF in walnut frame
21 x 17 x 1 3/4 inches
53.3 x 43.2 x 4.4 cm
Emily Weiner's studio in Nashville, TN, 2024. Photography by Jessie Watts.
EMILY WEINER
Magician’s Assistant, 2025
Oil on linen in stoneware frame
12 x 10 3/8 x 1 1/2 inches
30.5 x 26.4 x 3.8 cm
EMILY WEINER
Marionettist, 2025
Oil on linen in painted wood frame
61 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 inches
156.2 x 118.1 x 5.1 cm
Passing Through (detail), 2025.
EMILY WEINER
Passing Through, 2025
Oil on linen in painted wood frame
61 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 2 inches
156.2 x 118.1 x 5.1 cm
EMILY WEINER
Resonance, 2025
Oil on linen in painted wood frame
35 x 29 x 1 1/2 inches
88.9 x 73.7 x 3.8 cm
EMILY WEINER
Snake, 2025
Oil on linen in stoneware frame
12 x 10 x 1 1/2 inches
30.5 x 25.4 x 3.8 cm

"It would seem a miscalculation, here, to make a distinction between irony and reverence. Liturgical architectures and motifs are made strange, in these paintings, with humour accentuating religiosity. Even the most canonical references are re-encoded, altered through shifts in scale, placement, or texture. In the same breath, Emily’s pictures hold this gravity, and wit."

- Mitch Speed in "Emily Weiner: Pulling Strings"
Emily Weiner's studio in Nashville, TN, 2024. Photography by Jessie Watts.
Emily Weiner in her studio, Nashville, TN, 2024.

Photo by Jessie Watts.

EMILY WEINER (b. 1981 in Brooklyn, NY) received her Master of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY and her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College at Columbia University, New York, NY.

Weiner has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN; König Galerie, Berlin, Germany; König Galerie, Mexico City, Mexico; Entrée, Bergen, Norway; Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; and Huxley-Parlour, London, United Kingdom.

Recent group exhibitions have been held at König Galerie, Seoul, Korea; König Galerie, Berlin, Germany; König Galerie, Mexico City, Mexico; Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy; SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland, OR; Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway; WeSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China; Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN; Brackett Creek Exhibitions, Brooklyne, NY; and LAMB Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

Her work may be found in the collections of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and Kunsthall Grenland, Porsgrunn, Norway. Weiner is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for her work, including the Hopper Prize in 2022, and in 2021 was a recipient of the Current Art Fund, granted by Tri-Star Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Art. Weiner has held a faculty position at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; and teaches at the Watkins College of Art, Belmont University, Nashville, TN.

Weiner lives and works in Nashville, TN.
- EMILY WEINER
  Resonance, 2025
  Oil on linen in painted wood frame
  35 x 29 x 1 1/2 inches
  88.9 x 73.7 x 3.8 cm
- EMILY WEINER
  Snake, 2025
  Oil on linen in stoneware frame
  12 x 10 x 1 1/2 inches
  30.5 x 25.4 x 3.8 cm
Artwork photography by John Schweikert.

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