Backslash Artist 2016
By addressing enhancements, both internal (the peaks and valleys of our emotional and physical lives), and external (technology, purchased pleasure, and the manipulation of nature), Matthew Weinstein engages in a phenomenological approach to rendering lived experience. In Weinstein’s work, representations of skeletons, sunsets, vintage Halloween masks, animated fish, and lens flares form an aesthetic socio-political cabaret whose elements he assembles and reassembles to evoke the idea that our social, political and natural environment is a medium in which we are embedded, like an idea or emotion in a work of art. Through his use of traditional art media as well as high tech media, such as hyper realistic computer animation, NFT’s and interactivity, Weinstein defines a broad, open, and inclusive aesthetic world. Weinstein brings each medium to the same standard of technical refinement, so each piece stands alone, outside of its original context.
