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Ashley L Schick
Bill Lowrey
Celina Grigore
Cheri Buxman
Cheryl Bailey
Claire Simon
Donald Fodness
Ellen M Harper
Emily Martin
Gayle Gerson
Jason Lee Gimbel
Jen Urso
Jenny Wiener
Michael Bernhardt
Michael Good
Sara Sanderson
Seth Roby
Susan J Thompson

 

 

 

Jenny Wiener

Tavares, Florida

 

Words became measures in oral traditions by using abstract forms such as ‘bunch, heap or many’. My question is how do you measure ‘so many?’ The ancients associated these number words with concrete objects, but unfortunately the names of the original concrete objects have undergone a complete metamorphosis with no recorded data available. I argue the concrete object associated with ‘so many’ was a shoe. Often combining intricate technical drawing with layers of silk-screened geometric shapes, Jenny Weiner’s practice revolves around numbers. Her concern is that we are increasingly reduced to numbers: serial numbers, random numbers – units measuring everything and nothing. She defines these processes and applies them to whatever she wants – from fairy tales to Renaissance paintings.

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Study for Emperor with Clogs

pencil and ink on paper

101/2 x 9

© 2009

$225

 

This is the first piece in a series of analysis of measuring ‘The Old Woman who lived in a shoe’ – what size is your shoe?

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Wonderland Measures

pencil and ink on paper

101/2 x 9

© 2009

$225