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Emily Weiner — Convergence
Emily Weiner — Convergence
Emily Weiner

Convergence

2024

Convergence presents two opposing forces drawn into uneasy harmony across a richly worked linen surface, where Weiner's gestural marks accumulate into something that feels simultaneously turbulent and resolved. Painted in oil, the composition rewards sustained looking, revealing layers of pigment that speak to a deliberate and searching process, one in which the artist appears to negotiate between impulse and restraint. The warm, tactile surface carries the kind of physical presence that reproductions cannot fully convey, and the work's relatively intimate scale encourages a private relationship between the painting and its viewer. The custom stoneware frame transforms the object from picture into artifact, extending Weiner's material thinking beyond the painted surface itself. Rather than receding into the background, the frame participates actively in the work, its handcrafted weight and texture rhyming with the dense, worked quality of the paint. This integration of painting and vessel-like enclosure reflects a broader concern in Weiner's practice with the boundaries of the painted object and its relationship to the domestic and contemplative spaces it inhabits. Currently offered through KÖNIG GALERIE, Convergence arrives signed by the artist and is ready to install as presented. Weiner has garnered significant critical attention for her ability to locate psychological depth within abstraction, and works from 2024 represent a particularly focused period of development in her ongoing exploration of form, surface, and emotional resonance. For collectors drawn to painting that operates at the intersection of the gestural and the considered, this work offers an exceptional entry point into one of the more compelling voices in contemporary American abstraction.

Medium
Oil on linen in stoneware frame
Overall
Framed
Signed
Yes
Location
KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin

For Sale — $9500

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Emily Weiner, Convergence, 2024

Convergence presents two opposing forces drawn into uneasy harmony across a richly worked linen surface, where Weiner's gestural marks accumulate into something that feels simultaneously turbulent and resolved. Painted in oil, the composition rewards sustained looking, revealing layers of pigment that speak to a deliberate and searching process, one in which the artist appears to negotiate between impulse and restraint. The warm, tactile surface carries the kind of physical presence that reproductions cannot fully convey, and the work's relatively intimate scale encourages a private relationship between the painting and its viewer. The custom stoneware frame transforms the object from picture into artifact, extending Weiner's material thinking beyond the painted surface itself. Rather than receding into the background, the frame participates actively in the work, its handcrafted weight and texture rhyming with the dense, worked quality of the paint. This integration of painting and vessel-like enclosure reflects a broader concern in Weiner's practice with the boundaries of the painted object and its relationship to the domestic and contemplative spaces it inhabits. Currently offered through KÖNIG GALERIE, Convergence arrives signed by the artist and is ready to install as presented. Weiner has garnered significant critical attention for her ability to locate psychological depth within abstraction, and works from 2024 represent a particularly focused period of development in her ongoing exploration of form, surface, and emotional resonance. For collectors drawn to painting that operates at the intersection of the gestural and the considered, this work offers an exceptional entry point into one of the more compelling voices in contemporary American abstraction.

Medium
Oil on linen in stoneware frame
Dimensions
overall: 55.88 x 44.45 x 4.45 cm • framed: 55.88 x 44.45 x 4.45 cm
Year
2024
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin

Related themes

Non-Representational, American, Linen Canvas, Ceramic Frame, Abstract Expressionism, Gestural, Oil Painting, Contemporary