PLEASE JOIN US
for
Daniel Wiener and Faye Hirsch
in conversation, discussing the current exhibition
Daniel Wiener: Out in Front of the Back of Beyond
Thursday, May 14 at 5 PM EST
Viewing at 5PM, talk begins promptly at 5:15.
Daniel Wiener is a visual artist originally from Los Angeles, California who has lived and worked in NYC for the last forty-three years. Wiener has exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably with White Columns, Casey Kaplan, Bravin Post Lee, Pierogi, Acme Gallery, Lesley Heller, Fiorella Lalumia Studio (Milan), The Living Room (Amsterdam), MoMA PS1, Sculpture Center, Oakland Museum, Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, and the inaugural BRIC Biennial. Wiener is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and is also an alumnus of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1983). His work has appeared in BOMB, Hyperallergic, Art in America, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, and Gorky’s Granddaughter, among others.
Faye Hirsch is a writer, editor, curator and teacher who has published widely on contemporary art. She was chair of the master’s degree program in Fine Art at the School of Art+Design at Purchase College, SUNY, from 2012 to 2024, and served as a senior editor at Art in America from 2003 to 2014. The author of dozens of catalogue essays, articles, and books, she continues to write reviews on contemporary art and exhibitions for Hyperallergic and Brooklyn Rail. Her book on the painter Lois Dodd (2017) is in its third printing, and she is a contributor to the catalogue for Dodd’s recent career retrospective at Kunstmuseum den Hague. She has co-written, with Ingrid Schaffner, In the Company of Artists: A History of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the first major publication on the topic, and she has contributed an essay on Harmony Hammond’s monotypes to a forthcoming monograph. Now semi-retired, she lives in Western Massachusetts.