Alex Weinstein is a contemporary American artist known for his large-scale, monochrome gradient paintings of water. “This gigantic, always moving, always changing character—it was a huge wellspring of stimulation,” Weinstein has said about the Pacific Ocean, after a move to California in the late 1990s repositioned his painting practice. Born in 1970 in Providence, RI, he credits Mark Rothko and Brice Marden for impacting his use of color as he captures the liminal space between surf and sky in cool tonal gradients. Currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA, Weinstein graduated from Brown University in 1992 with dual degrees in visual arts and creative writing.