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MARTIN WEINSTEIN | Continuum
Lichtundfire | 175 Rivington Street | NYC, February 6 - March 1, 2025

MARTIN WEINSTEIN | Continuum: Lichtundfire | 175 Rivington Street | NYC

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MARTIN WEINSTEIN | Continuum, Lichtundfire | 175 Rivington Street | NYC

The word creare in original Latin means to bring forth while in late Middle English, the word create connotes to make out of nothing. Both apply and converge in a single work by Martin Weinstein. He succeeds in showing both, the sensation of a moment in time extrapolated from memory, and, simultaneously, the image, a constructed depiction of time past, in front of our eyes - out of nothing.

Martin Weinstein has painted interiors and exteriors in direct contact with his subjects over many years, since the 1980's, carefully observing the changes of light, season, or time of day - impactful to his compositions. The exhibition, and Impermanence here being both subject and object, is an exploration of the passage of time, both for the artist and his work.
This group of mainly paintings in various media, a selection of works ranging across more than forty years, explores the transition that work can engage in over time while keeping close to the core of both subject-matter and artistic viewpoint.
Weinstein, trained as an abstract artist, and formerly part of the Abstract-Minimalist movement in New York City, followed both heart and instinct, and made for the observer at that time, a most likely abrupt transition from an abstract painter to one who continues with conceptual representation.
Using a method of observing space and time in situ makes him a contemporary plein-air artist, as much as his observations of interiors, objects, and, at times subjects, connect him with artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Félix Vallotton, who, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Century, experimented with space and its objects/subjects reconstructed and reconfigured.
There is an added Surrealist element in his works that show both interiors and exteriors layered, and interwoven, when Weinstein constructs spaces that have an inside-outside or outside-inside perspective inextricably interlaced, creating an unexpected and uncommon view of space, subjects, and all things depicted - a sensation and perspective of space and time, that reminds of M.C. Escher's fantastical perspectives, or of some of the Surrealists' Salvador Dali's or Giorgio De Chirico's compositions.
There's also a kinship to J. M. W. Turner's tradition of Romantic landscape painting. His landscapes are combinations of both, expressionist compositions with emphasized colors and virtuous movement, and translucent impressionist studies of minutes, hours, days, months, and years.
While some of Weinstein's earlier works have an apparent flattened interior/exterior space perspective that might still come from painting minimalist abstraction, the later works, up to the present, reflect more an observation of space through the fluidity of time.

The exhibition sheds light on Weinstein's work that utilizes, both interior and exterior space to create a complex in-side-out or outside-in perspective - pushing the cognitive process beyond the familiar and into the unknown.
The transition from a less complex picture plane, still more intact in his earlier works, to complex compositions, painted with acrylic paint on layers of acrylic sheets in clear plexiglass boxes, allows Weinstein the successful transcription of the fluidity of the observed without losing the authenticity of the depicted in the process. This untraditional medium, with light flowing through it, both enables him to create space as we construct it from memory, rather than in real-time, and to recapture the events that unfold in realtime and are etched in our memory.
The word creare in original Latin means to bring forth while in late Middle English, the word create connotes to make out of nothing. Both apply and converge in a single work by Martin Weinstein. He succeeds in showing both, the sensation of a moment in time extrapolated from memory, and,msimultaneously, the image, a constructed depiction of time past, in front of our eyes - out of nothing.
The passage of time, the very moment cannot be captured, nor can the individual experience of space be generalized - but, similar to the concept of a camera obscura, humans find ways to create tools that help them see and relate to the incomprehensible. By inventing and producing a medium that enables Weinstein to show what has been dormant, and allows the viewer to see what is inscribed in our memory, as well as the artist's unique vision shared, he continues the lineage of Homo Faber = Man, the Maker (Latin), or in other words, of artists, who like Weinstein, became active producers of tools to share their vision with the world.
This exhibition shows Martin Weinstein's decade-long, ongoing, and progressive investigation of time and space, and his dedication and endeavor to communicate what is equally truly personal and utmost universal - the way we experience and observe the continuous impermanence of the human condition.
PRISKA JUSCHKA
DIRECTOR, LICHTUNDFIRE, NEW YORK CITY
JANUARY 2025

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Works
  • Martin Weinstein Upstairs, April, Inside Over Outside, 2023 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 27 x 20.75 x 3 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Upstairs, April, Inside Over Outside, 2023
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    27 x 20.75 x 3 in
  • Martin Weinstein Snow, Evening Under Afternoon, Inside Over Outside, 2025 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Snow, Evening Under Afternoon, Inside Over Outside, 2025
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
  • Martin Weinstein Tereza and River, Outside Over Inside (Katie's Peonies), 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Tereza and River, Outside Over Inside (Katie's Peonies), 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
  • Martin Weinstein Stormy Afternoons, July, Outside Under Inside, , 2023 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
    Martin Weinstein
    Stormy Afternoons, July, Outside Under Inside, , 2023
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
  • Martin Weinstein Tulips and Dogwood, Outside Under Inside, 2023 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
    Martin Weinstein
    Tulips and Dogwood, Outside Under Inside, 2023
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
  • Martin Weinstein Lilies. One Year Over Another, Inside Over Outside, 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 20.75 x 27.75 x 3 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Lilies. One Year Over Another, Inside Over Outside, 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    20.75 x 27.75 x 3 in
  • Martin Weinstein Kenoten, November, Outside Under Inside, 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Kenoten, November, Outside Under Inside, 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
  • Martin Weinstein Breakfast, January, Inside Over Outside, 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 27 x 20.75 x 3 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Breakfast, January, Inside Over Outside, 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    27 x 20.75 x 3 in
  • Martin Weinstein January, Evenings, Inside Over Outside, 2022 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 27 x 20.75 x 3 in
    Martin Weinstein
    January, Evenings, Inside Over Outside, 2022
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    27 x 20.75 x 3 in
  • Martin Weinstein Blossoming Plum, Inside Over Outside, 2023 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
    Martin Weinstein
    Blossoming Plum, Inside Over Outside, 2023
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
  • Martin Weinstein Bedroom, September, Inside Over Outside, 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Bedroom, September, Inside Over Outside, 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    11.5 x 14 x 2.5 in
  • Martin Weinstein August Afternoons, Inside Over Outside, ,2023 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 27 x 20.75 x 3 in
    Martin Weinstein
    August Afternoons, Inside Over Outside, ,2023
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    27 x 20.75 x 3 in
  • Martin Weinstein August Evenings Outside Over Inside, 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
    Martin Weinstein
    August Evenings Outside Over Inside, 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
  • Martin Weinstein Autumn Studio, Inside Over Outside, 2023 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
    Martin Weinstein
    Autumn Studio, Inside Over Outside, 2023
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
  • Martin Weinstein April-May, Outside Over Inside, Morning Over Evening, (a Beautiful Morning in Uncertain Times), 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
    Martin Weinstein
    April-May, Outside Over Inside, Morning Over Evening, (a Beautiful Morning in Uncertain Times), 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In
  • Martin Weinstein April Budding, Inside Over Outside,, 2024 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets 14 x 11 ½ x 2 ½ in
    Martin Weinstein
    April Budding, Inside Over Outside,, 2024
    Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets
    14 x 11 ½ x 2 ½ in
  • Martin Weinstein Mutable Perception, 1988 pastel and watercolor on paper 30 x 40 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Mutable Perception, 1988
    pastel and watercolor on paper
    30 x 40 in
  • Martin Weinstein Mutable Perception, 1989 oil on acrylic sheets 20 x 16 inches,
    Martin Weinstein
    Mutable Perception, 1989
    oil on acrylic sheets
    20 x 16 inches,
  • Martin Weinstein Mutable Perception, Mirage, , 1988 pastel and watercolor on paper 30 x 40 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Mutable Perception, Mirage, , 1988
    pastel and watercolor on paper
    30 x 40 in
  • Martin Weinstein Proof #1, 1990 oil on acrylic sheets 24 x 20 inches,
    Martin Weinstein
    Proof #1, 1990
    oil on acrylic sheets
    24 x 20 inches,
  • Martin Weinstein Truth of Clouds, 1988 pastel and watercolor on paper 30 x 40 in
    Martin Weinstein
    Truth of Clouds, 1988
    pastel and watercolor on paper
    30 x 40 in
  • Martin Weinstein Apartment in Vienna, 1999 oil on acrylic sheets 13 x 10 inches
    Martin Weinstein
    Apartment in Vienna, 1999
    oil on acrylic sheets
    13 x 10 inches
Installation Views
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  • Sf Martin Weinstein Lichtundfire 03
  • Sf V 2Martin Weinstein Lichtundfire 04
Events
  • MARTIN WEINSTEIN | Continuum

    MARTIN WEINSTEIN | Continuum

    A History of Impermanence · Opening Reception February 6, 2025
    MARTIN WEINSTEIN | Continuum · A History of Impermanence is an exhibition of recent paintings along with older work that explores the layers of observed space in the painting process. Weinstein's fascination with dimensional illusions will be on view at Lichtundfire Gallery located at 175 Rivington St. New York, NY. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on Thursday February 6, 6:00 - 8:00 pm and runs through March 1, 2025.
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Press release

LICHTUNDFIRE GALLERY

175 Rivington St. New York, NY, 10002


OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, February 6, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sat, 12:00 - 6:00 pm.

3 pages with images - click on images or titles for hi-res jpgs


(New York, NY):  Martin Weinstein · Continuum , curated by Priska Juschka, is a survey of the artist’s most recent dimensional paintings and some earlier works opening at Lichtundfire Gallery on February 6 and running through March 1, 2025. Weinstein's unique practice of painting on multiple acrylic sheets, then reassembled in a clear box, creates an experience of deep, infinitely shifting space.

The exhibition opens with an artist’s reception on Thursday, February 6, 2025, from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm and remains on view through March 1, 2024. Hours for Lichtundfire Gallery are Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00 pm 

ABOUT MARTIN WEINSTEIN:

Martin Weinstein has had over 75 solo and curated group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationally and abroad in his extensive career. Media coverage includes  Art in America, Artes Magazine, Arts Magazine, Huffington Post, New York Daily News, NY Art Beat, d'Art International Magazine, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Selected solo exhibitions include the Wichita Art Museum  (KS); Hillstrom Museum of Art (MN); MacNider Art Museum (Mason City, IA); The Parthenon Museum (TN); Chicago Academy of Sciences (IL), the New York Hall of Science (NY, NY) and upcoming in 2026, at Castello 925 in Venice, Italy. Martin Weinstein is the co-chair of the Friends of AIM Program at the Bronx Museum of Arts and the co-founder of Art in General. More about Martin Weinstein: www.martinweinstein.com

 

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Martin Weinstein Stormy Afternoons, July, Outside Under Inside , 2023 Acrylic on multiple acrylic sheets · 28 x 31 ½ x 3 ½ In


 

Martin Weinstein, January Evenings, Inside Over Outside, 2022, acrylics on multiple acrylic sheets

Martin Weinstein, AUGUST AFTERNOONS, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2023, acrylics on multiple acrylic sheets


Martin Weinstein, LILIES, ONE YEAR OVER ANOTHER, INSIDE OVER OUTSIDE, 2024

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Virtual Exhibition
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition MARTIN WEINSTEIN | Continuum: A History of Impermanence  at Lichtundfire Gallery from February 6 - March 1, 2025.

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