Shirley Wegner

 

Biography

 

Shirley Wegner is a New York based artist, born in Tel Aviv, Israel. She moved to New York in 1997 and in 2002 received her MFA from Yale University school of art. In 2007 Wegner has had her first museum solo exhibition at Museum Goch in Germany with a catalogue to be published in 2008. In 2006 she was recently awarded the Atelier Stipendium from the city of Moenchengladbach, Germany where she had a solo exhibition in November 2006. Her work was exhibited both internationally and in the US, among others in Habres+Partner Gallery in Vienna (solo), at The Tel Aviv Museum of Art (“Land of Shadow” 2002, “Affirmative Action” 2003, and “Young Israeli Artists, from The Collection of The Museum”, 2003), in numerous group shows in NYC and Germany (“Connected”, Altes Museum, BiS-Zentrum, Moenchengladbach, Germany, 2007, “Do You Think I’m Disco?” Longwood Arts Projects Gallery, NY; “Wandering” Makor gallery in New York; “Seeing Elsewhere” Education Alliance Gallery, NY and in “Home Base”, as part of “Artis” events in NYC, 2006. Her work is included in several private and public collections including Museum Goch in Germany and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

 

 

Creative Process

 

Excerpts from “On Shirley Wegner's Works” by Leah Abir, translated from Hebrew by Talia Halkin. In Shirley Wegner: On Landscape, Gray and other geographies, Exhibition catalogue, Museum Goch, Germany 2008

 

“Home is a numbered series of installations (of which four have been created thus far) – site-specific murals composed with acrylic, wall paint and pencil. Using only two or three different shades of color, Wegner covers the surface with patches of paint that create the illusion of cracks and crevices, rust, concrete surfaces, peeling paint and water stains. What is at stake here is not a process of total destruction, but rather the surplus effects of neglect and of absence. […] In Wegner's works, the processes of decay and of peeling are an illusion created by means of painting […]. In other words, the act of uncovering hidden layers that takes place in these works remains nothing but a sign; it does not actually provide the visual pleasure of unveiling a secret. Wegner presents the viewer with an examination of symptoms, of the manifest aesthetics of decay.

 

 

 

 

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