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    • The ART OF MARK WEISS                      "What is it You are Asking of Me"

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      The Art of Mark Steven Weiss

       

       

    • "I regard him as one of

      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

      "Mark Weiss is a kind of 

       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

    • "I began painting at the age of 23 after graduating from SUNY Albany with a degree in Psychology. Here is a chronology of paintings from then til the present.The first two are naive copies I made and the next two are paintings from models at the Art Students League. The rest are all done automatically with no preconceived ideas.I feel the work is all one opus. A journey that goes through the underworld, culminating in a clinical depression in 1990, and then the ascent into a more magical and mystical place."  Mark Weiss, 2013

      Copy of Cezanne
      Raphael Soyer-copy
      Portrait
      Portrait
      Three Fancy Women,Fancy They Have a Reserved Seat in Heaven
      The Temptation of the Reluctant Messiah
      Entangled in the Fates
      Carried into the Underworld
      We of Crippled Fury
      A Demon Perched on His Shoulder
      The Cave of the Blind Cannibal
      The Headhunter
      The Floor Scrubber at the Foot of the Pieta
      The Two Headed Goddess
      Mother Earth
      The Animals Gather at the Last Clean Watering Hole
      The Mismatch(the computer date)
      Woman with a Severed Head
      The Angel Who Couldn't Fly
      Saul's Cave
      The Head of the Tooth Mother
      Sleeping Beauty and the Star Gatherer
      The Birth
      Back from the Sun
      The Return of the Angry Boy
      The Awakening
      The Eclipse
      The Instructions
      Midnight Stroll
      Lovers on a Bridge
      The Crossing
      acrylic on canvas-1994
60"x54"
      the Magician
      Seeing Behind the Veil
      Back From the Oracle
      The Cherry Picker
      A Healing Place
      Mountain Lake
      White Water
      The Well
      Contemplating Infinity
      A Secret Place
      Riding his Familiar
      Returning Home(Odysseus)
      Morning Prayer
      Evening Prayer
      Guiding Light
      The Steps
      A Giant Among Us
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    • Progression: The Birth of a Painting

      In response to people asking me about my process of painting I created a series of paintings photographed in progress. Here is one of those photographed approximately every ten minutes.

      Background music-"Waking Song" by R.Carlos Nakai

    • Progression #2: The Birth of a Painting

      In response to people asking me about my process of painting I created a series of paintings photographed in progress. Here is one of those photographed approximately every ten minutes. This one I turned upside down half way through and finished it from that orientation.
      Background music-"The Illusionist" by Phillip Glass.

    • New Works 2013-18

      February 19, 2013
      April 15,2013
      April 4, 2014
      April 25, 2013
      March 27, 2013
      May 17, 2013
      May 23,2013
      June 14, 2013
      June 10, 2013
      June 18, 2013
      Feb. 4, 2014
      January 28, 2014
      September 9, 2013
      January 2, 2014
      February  21, 2013
      Feb. 4, 2013
      The Sorceress
      The Healer
      oil on canvas 36"x48" 2015
      oil on paper 22"x30" 2016
      oil on canvas 50"x50" 2016
      The Black Butterfly
      The Ascent
      This River is 10,000 Years Old
      Born of Fire
      Swimming With the Angel Fish
      Flight of the Turtles
    • "The Invisible World"

      Jen Fineran's documentary about my work has won best short documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival in Oct. of 2016 and at the Illuminate Film Festival In Sedona,AZ. in June 2017.It has also played in film festivals in Milan, Madrid, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Wichita and N.Y.C.

      The film will be showing on Mar. 28th, 2018 at the Nyack Center, Nyack NY, 7:30 pm as part of a woman's director's evening.

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      Solo Exhibition at 95 1/2 Main St Gallery, Nyack N.Y.

      Opening reception Nov.16,2018 from 7-10 pm. Will run through January. There will be about 20 pieces there, both large and small plus a screening of the movie "The Invisible World" and discussion in early Dec. Dates TBA.

       

       

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