Jonathan Viner is an American painter based in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to six solo exhibitions in New York and Seattle, his work has been included in numerous group exhibitions across the US and in Italy, the Philippines, and Japan. Working primarily in oils, he fuses a deep respect for the tradition and craft of painting with an appreciation for the dynamic pluralism of current art practice. Viner begins with a synthesis of visual reference materials gathered from live models, props, and found photographs. From there his work gradually coalesces into conceptually ambiguous, precisely articulated hybrids of portraiture and narrative that assert the right of the artist to exceed prevailing institutional conventions in pursuit of highly individualized artistic vision. Basically.
