Austyn Weiner: “Records and Explorations of the Human Experience.”

Frantic, wild, unapologetic. Canvases are permeated with intimacy; anxieties and loneliness. Bright, explosive, vivid; figuration is blended with abstraction. Deconstructed then reconstructed; paint becomes intensely personal. Canvases are rendered as autobiographical records, and explorations of, the human experience…

I talk to Weiner, having met at the opening of her solo show at Massimo De Carlo in London - ‘Blood On Blood’. We explore the influence of music, the importance of community, and Weiner’s personal healing process of actually creating this body of work.

Weiner works with oil on linen, using brushes and oil sticks to draw glyphs and characters. Heavily influenced by female postwar abstraction, as well as her own life and family history, Weiner’s work is permeated by her experience as a Jewish-American. Consequently, her autobiographical works are distinctive, personal, and of the present - imbued with both the historical and the contemporary.

A heartfelt thanks to Austyn Weiner and Massimo De Carlo Gallery for their time and dedication to this podcast episode.

Research: Lily Paisner
Director of Photography: Henry Wood
Music: Gadi Sassoon - Organico, courtesy of ASIP/Just Isn’t Music