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.
I’m currently the artist in residence at Park Towne Place in the museum district of down town Philadelphia, and will be showing a selection of works in a solo show titled Some of it’s Parts, which I am using to refine a painting series I’m calling NOTHING TO FEAR, following up my first solo show ART & FEAR in 2023. NOTHING TO FEAR will be shown in it’s entirety in 2026.
BIO:
A graduate from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University, under the pseudonym AYGZ (Eg-z), Jesse Weinstein has developed a visual language across a wide range of platforms from painting, printmaking, both analogue and digital illustration, has realized two comic books, and his prints have appeared on limited-edition T-shirts and hoodies. He has been profiled in The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Jewish Exponent. He is a recently welcomed member of Inliquid, a gallery and organization having just celebrated 25 years of its contributions to the Philadelphia art scene.
Works shown in:
“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
“New Now VII,” InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia PA, 2024
“Brushes with Cancer,” Writers Theatre, Chicago IL, 2025
“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