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| About the Artist Jeffrey Wiener was born in Miami, Florida in 1961, and graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. He has exhibited his surrealistic drawings and paintings in galleries from Miami to the East Village of New York City. He was heavily influenced by the painters of the Renaissance, and 20th Century artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, and especially MC Escher, who's print-making created a deep and lasting impression on the young artist, who immersed himself in the technologies of reproduction. When the World Wide Web was unveiled, Jeffrey was one of the first galleries online, where he showcased the artworks he was exhibiting in the early 1990's in SOHO's art galleries. Jeffrey Wiener became a pioneering web developer in 1993 at the beginning of the web's use as a public medium and he built the first promotional websites for publishing giants Scholastic, Ziff-Davis and PCMagazine. With a growing roster of advertising agency clients, he quickly established his first multimedia design firm (Jeffrey Wiener Studio) in midtown Manhattan, producing cutting edge websites for a wide range of new media clients. In the decade following his entrance into this emerging industry, he worked as a Creative Director for several highly successful eCommerce, Entertainment, and Community-based DotComs. He was often developing many companies' first websites, including Outpost.com, PCFlowers.com, and the popular Beliefnet.com, a multi-faith community website. After 9.11, Jeffrey Wiener's artwork took an Activist turn, when he began producing animated games and videos – "Viral Media" – intended to introduce particular points of view into the political and cultural dialog taking place in political forums online. Many pieces were sharply written satirical messages, embedded within popular multimedia formats - such online gaming - which he then promoted from dangerousmedia's servers. He produced one of the most outrageous satirical animations of President Bush, as a pumped up Action Hero taking on Islam in MoveOn.org's first public message competition Bush in 30 Seconds. |
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Currently Jeffrey Wiener runs the online design consultancy Dangerous Media Productions, Inc. which specializes in the development of customized digital content and web-based marketing strategies. He also produces TheGreatNude.tv, a Web/Video Magazine focused on the figurative arts and life drawing, with articles and videos that featured artists who were dedicated to using the nude in their art. Officially launched in 2007 to only a handful of followers, TheGreatNude.tv has grown into a respected, paid-subscription publication with thousands of subscribers who's demographics include artists, collectors, gallerists, and the fans of uncensored artworks that seriously and maturely deal with the nude. In 2010, TheGreatNude.tv hosted TheGreatNude Invitational, an international art exhibition in New York City featuring 27 figurative artists including Odd Nerdrum, Sherry Camhy, Barnett Suskind, Walter Robinson, Meredith Bergmann, and many others, whose works all featured the bold and provocative use of the Nude. Our Panel Discussion on The Nude in Contemporary Art included renowned art critic Donald Kuspit, and artists Vincent Desiderio, Leah Poller, Sherry Camhy, and Richard T. Scott. |
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