A continued collaboration by Michael Manning and Mark Wiener

Accompanied by Curator Lisa Paul Streitfeld reading Margaret Fuller's alchemical poetry

CAMBRIDGE PERFORMANCE PAINTING: RESURRECTING MARGARET FULLER

June 20, 2010 at 2 PM

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live streaming video on mwienerarts.com/pierremenardgallery.html and the outcome will be exhibited at HP Garcia Gallery, August 04-21, 2010

Michael Manning and Mark Wiener collaborated on Above Ground Performance; Venus Resurrected a September 25, 2009 performance painting at HP Garcia Gallery in New York City live on ustream.

Michael Manning is a mythological painter creating narratives surrounding the birth of a new cosmology. Working in issues of morality, morality and justice, he creates stories from an individual point of view but with universal significance and meaning. His focus is the central archetypal figure of the hero. With the traditional journey presented by Joseph Campbell as a starting point, extraordinary deeds and adventures are substituted with events found in everyday life. The end results are narrative paintings that use allegorical images to show daily events as equivalent to the actions of a classic mythological hero.

Mark Wiener is an abstract painter who studied under Bauhaus influences at Philadelphia College of Art, where he focused on painting and photography. In 2007 he took on re-defining what he calls the "Cross Narrative" between action painting and minimalism, a dialogue between geometric worlds and fluid visual languages on canvas, wood, vellum and similar substrates. Mark Wiener exhibits in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Milan and Tokyo, as well as New York, his studio is in NYC's West Chelsea Art District.

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