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Mark Moore Fine Art is pleased to present “Gel Variations,” a solo online exhibition of Ben Charles Weiner’s recent paintings. In these works, Weiner acts out the adage that “we are the sum of our habits” through a sort of painterly double entendre: by executing a series of rigorous formal operations upon his long-favored subject of hair gel, Weiner iterates his own identity as an aggregation of daily routines—whether in the studio, or in front of the bathroom mirror.

Weiner’s formal engagement with hair gel takes the form of three suites of paintings: Gel Monochromes, Gel Formations, and …