[9][10] Weiner's gestural and abstract charcoal works, which reference current events,[11] are created using giant willow branches and detritus from his studio.

[13] In a review of the 2018 exhibition highlights of the Düsseldorf Cologne Open, Die Welt's Alexandra Wach remarked that Weiner's works are "weniger lieblich" or "less lovely" but that they also gave insight into the dark sensitivities of his generation regarding American politics and democracy.

"[15] In a 2017 article regarding Weiner's residency at Long Road Projects in Jacksonville, Folio Weekly's Madeleine Peck Wagner described his flag paintings as "designed to challenge viewer's (and his own) notions of patriotism, nationalism and anxiety" and remarked that "censorship is a topic close to the artist.

[17] In the lead up to a 2016 exhibition, Concrete Playground's Sarah Ward described how "the community Denver artist Paul Weiner called his own was rocked by tragedy when a man opened fire in a Colorado movie theatre" and "the horrific events sparked another kind of art: a response.

"[18] 5280 Magazine describes how his redacted paintings, which are direct transcriptions of significant legal documents from this trial, "became more conceptual in nature" and "those dark black lines became a recurring element in Weiner's earliest explorations of the topic.