the most brilliant of the younger American painters. He is moving with great courage in a direction that few others find themselves able to go. A certain flatness has come over American culture and in American painting....Mark Weiss, by his tremendous skill in color and gesture, is able to move convincingly into a place where the demons and divinities can be seen by us all."

— Robert Bly, poet and author of" Iron John," 1996

 sea diver. His stunning paintings extricate underworld gifts that few artists have the aptitude to even contemplate, let alone find. He has a loyalty to his practice and its mysteries that place him far outside the village of modern art, but directly in the line of a much older tradition. The paintings both lure us forward with a hint of boar's tusk and raven's eye, but also contain many dark holes through which our imagination flies free and mischievous. The work is a rare gift to a troubled world."

                  -Martin Shaw, director of the Westcounty School of Myth and Story and author of "A Branch From the Lightning Tree" 2009

"Mark Weiss is an artist

of immense promise; he is vastly talented and to his natural endowments he adds intelligence, curiosity, diligence, determination and the rare ability to sustain complex work over a long period of time." Leonard Baskin, artist, sculptor of the FDR memorial in Wash. D.C. 1997

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"Mark's painting's have aquality that exists in the best music; an irrational, non verbal evocation of primal emotion. His paintings make me want to sing." Elizabeth Brown, composer 2008

"..his images appear with great freshness, as if no one has ever tried such a thing before. I think only the German expressionists heave work comparable in intensity." Robert Bly, 2008

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