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12 Facts About Aron Wiesenfeld

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Aron Wiesenfeld was born on 12 August 1972 and is an American painter, illustrator and comic book artist based in San Diego, California.

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Aron Wiesenfeld is known for painting disquieting scenes of lonely youths.

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Aron Wiesenfeld's works have been shown at several exhibitions in the United States and Europe including those at Arcadia Contemporary in New York City, Unit London, Long Beach Museum of Art and the Bakersfield Museum of Art.

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Aron Wiesenfeld was born to Susan Brouwer and Stephen Aron Wiesenfeld in 1972, in Washington, DC, and grew up in Santa Cruz, California.

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Aron Wiesenfeld began drawing at an early age and received lessons in painting and etching from his grandmother, Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld, a noted watercolor artist.

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From 1990 to 1993, Aron Wiesenfeld attended Cooper Union School of Art in New York City.

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Aron Wiesenfeld began his professional career in 1992 when Neal Adams offered him a job as a comics penciller at Continuity Comics.

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In 2009, Aron Wiesenfeld began exhibiting his works at Arcadia Contemporary in New York City, where his work attracted the attention of celebrity collectors such as JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon and Laura Linney.

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Aron Wiesenfeld's work has been exhibited in eleven solo exhibitions in the US and Europe.

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Aron Wiesenfeld's paintings have been part of more than 50 group exhibitions around the globe.

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Aron Wiesenfeld's artwork has appeared on the covers of numerous novels, poetry collections and album covers.

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Aron Wiesenfeld maintains admiration for the comic artists who initially inspired him such as Edward Gorey, Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Chris Ware, and Robert Crumb.