(New York, New York, 1959- )
Lives and works in New York, New York
Martin Wilner continues to work on two major
projects, The Journal of Evidence Weekly and Making
History. In
the former, Wilner fills small sketchbooks with portraits of people
he notices on the subway in New York on his way to and from his practice
as a psychiatrist. In the latter, Wilner fills in each box of the
calendar with a drawing from that day's newspaper. The outline of
the calendar is based on the Roman calendar for the year 2004. The
calendar project is a work of portraiture in two senses. First, it
serves as a portrait of a period of history, recording details and
setting a visual record of the 'news' of the day. At a deeper level,
however, the work also serves as a self-portrait, a record of the
trajectories of Wilner's own consciousness tracing his own choices
of what to draw on a given day. The tubes and lines weaving through
the drawings are like the contours of a map, in this case the map
of the artist's mind. |
