Portraits

Seeing

Painting someone is a way of listening to their face.

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”- Henry David Thoreau

Mirrors & interpretation

Reflecting

Reflection transforms the familiar into something newly observed.

Water, sky, and atmosphere

Immersion

Water as both lens and barrier.

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”- Margaret Atwood

Process

Becoming

How the work comes into being.

Water, clouds, mirrored surfaces, shifting reflections, and the human face recur throughout my work—not as subjects alone, but as ways of exploring how we construct reality from incomplete information. A reflection is never the object itself—it is a warping and reimagining of the original. A face reveals and conceals at the same time. Distortion can obscure truth, but it can also expand it or uncover it.

I am particularly drawn to faces. A face is a mind rendered into muscle and light, drawing and painting faces is a kind of radical seeing—a form of storytelling through pigment and pen.

My paintings explore the space between observation and interpretation, where memory, emotion, and attention quietly reshape what we believe we see.

Working in both medicine and art has reinforced the same lesson: seeing is never entirely objective. Every act of looking is influenced by experience, expectation, and the stories we carry with us.

Rather than offering answers, I hope the work creates a moment of pause—a chance to look again, to notice more slowly, and to recognize that certainty is often less interesting than curiosity.

Still Life

Presence

The quiet life of ordinary objects.

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About

Aviva E. Weinberg

I'm a physician by training and an artist by habit—two ways of paying close attention to the same thing. Medicine taught me to look for a long time before deciding what I'm seeing. Painting is where that same act of looking gets to slow all the way down.

My work returns again and again to portraits, reflections, and water—surfaces that reveal something true and something distorted at once. Seeing is the subject as much as any face, figure, or shoreline.

I work across oil, acrylic, watercolor, graphite, and digital studies in Procreate, often moving between media as an image develops. Each offers a different way of looking: building, obscuring, softening, and returning until the work finds its final form.

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Children's Book

Sleepyville

Written by Yossi & Sophie Weinberg · Illustrated by Aviva Weinberg. Click the page to turn it.

Sleepyville — book cover

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Digital Portrait Series

Faces Unmasked

A sustained exploration in digital media — faces studied one after another, each a small act of attention. These are the portraits from the 100 faces series.

Underwater Photography

Below the Surface

Water stories - light, refraction and weightlessness - an underwater ballet.