ARTIST STATEMENT:
I utilize both digital and classical painting techniques to convey the overwhelming sense of stimulation I experience daily. My work explores the concept of interaction with environment by combining multiple mediums into one scene where subject and setting are equal parts. The natural organic flow of paint against the calculated nature of a digital print, and what I am able to achieve meeting in the middle. I create digial collage/illustrations of my photography that I then transfer to print. After, collaging elements onto raw, and un-stretched canvas, I paint in response to what I have layered with paper, and burry the seams under thick acrylic. The goal is to create one solid moment where old and new means of doing are working together.
My show NOTHING TO FEAR opens April 4th, 2026 at Gallery Six33.
BIO:
Working under the pseudonym AYGZ, Jesse Weinstein is a North Philadelphia based mixed media artist who explores the relationship between environment and identity through collage, photography, and painting. His work views the city as both witness and participant- an accumulation of lived moments and shared histories that surface in streets, structures, and the people within them. Through this lens, AYGZ reveals how the personal and collective are inseparable, each continuously shaping the other.
Works shown in:
“NOTHING TO FEAR,” Gallery Six33, Philadelphia PA, 2026
“March for the Arts,” Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia PA, 2026
“Some of It’s Parts,”Park Towne Place, Philadelphia PA, 2025
“Brushes with Cancer,”Lilah, Philadelphia PA, 2025
“Group Show",” Gallery 633, Philadelphia PA, 2025
“First Friday & Young Jewish Professionals” Old City Jewish Arts Center, Philadelphia PA, 2025
“Works in Progress,” Joan Shepp, Philadelphia PA, 2025
“March for the Arts,” Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia PA, 2025
“Brushes with Cancer,”Writers Theatre, Chicago IL, 2025
“New Now VII,” InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2024
“InLiquid Toasts 25,” Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks, Philadelphia PA, 2024
“InLiquid 25th Anniversary Celebration Benefit,” Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia PA, 2024
“Main Line Contemporary” Colonna Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2024
“Art & Fear” Brotherly Love Gallery, Philadelphia PA 2023
“A Lifetime of Impressions & New Members Exhibition” Old City Jewish Arts Center, Philadelphia PA 2022
“The world's ending. What do you want me to do, dance?” Stella Elkins Gallery at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, 2021
“Young Arts Exposé” Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2020
“Art at the Vantage” Vantage at Temple University, Philadelphia PA, 2019