 Influenced by Alexi Brodivitch, Frank Zachry and Alexander Lieberman, he early began working simultaneously in several visual media.Wiener worked for some years, in the United States and Europe, as a professional photographer, illustrator and web designer before turning to full-time painting.His commercial work from that period appeared in magazines including "The Wall Street Journal", "Esquire", "New York Magazine", "Paris Match", as well as in such books as "Family of Children" and "The Art of Mickey Mouse".