Aron Wiesenfeld
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Looking at Aron Wiesenfeld’s paintings is akin to waking up from your dream. There’s a fogginess about what you’ve just experienced, and what you’ve just felt, but it stays there in the abyss within you – heavy and ever-present as the morning wears on. There remains a taste of the past in your thoughts, and the suppressed urge to walk on into the horizon, as you had once fantasized as a child. It’s the feeling of wanting to stay inside your dream a little longer.
Aron Wiesenfeld is an American artist who resides in California. His paintings are stories that commonly feature mysterious heroines, characters that are both magnetic in their command of presence and poetic in their vulnerability. His scenes are often sparse natural landscapes, on the outskirt borders where the wilderness and urban converge. There is such an internal movement within his works, from the stormy winds that bend the trees to the huddled walk of his painted people who are in the midst of their journeying.
Sometimes in his paintings, there appears to be a path beyond; a darkened road, cave or tunnel that the character is looking toward. There’s no indication as to whether the character will take this road. But still, it is there and strangely compelling. I think we all want to take that empty, eerie road, but, like some of the characters, we exist only on the verge. His paintings should be considered as a whole, as he seems to weave scenes together spaces, characters and time within his collections. Working mostly in oil, Aron is a creator of small moments that contain a large resonance with the emotions and memories of each and every viewer. These are the moments of life that occur in the small hours, the things we never see and the things we’ll never know if we aren’t out there looking for them.
Excerpts from Beautiful Bizarre, 2020