Biography "...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 the divinities live and can be seen by us all." Robert Bly, poet and author of "Iron John", 1996 "...Mark Weiss is an artist of immense promise; he is vastly talented and to his natural endowments he adds intelligence, curiousity,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.-1996 "Mark Weiss is a kind of sea diver. His stunning paintings extracate 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 high gift to a troubled world." Martin Shaw, author of "A Branch From The Lightning Tree",and Director of the Westcounty School of Myth and Story, 2009 "....his paintings have an ancient and honorable view and probably more true than we like to think in this age of electronic management." MarionGarmel,The Indianapolis News, 1988 "....his images appear with great freshness,as if no one has ever tried such a thing before. I think only the German surrealist artists of the 1930's have work comparable in intensity." Robert Bly, 2008 "Mark's paintings have a quality that exists in the best music: an irrational, non verbal evocation of primal emotion." Elizabeth Brown, composer, 2008 1998 A Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship to paint in Italy 1980   Ward-Nasse Gallery Prince Street, New York City, New York 1985 Pat Hearn Gallery Avenue B East Village, New York City, New York 1988 1989-1990 Denovement Fine Art Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana 1989 Doma Gallery 580 Broadway, New York City, New York 1990 1991-1992 Michelson Gallery 25 South Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 1991 Anima G Gallery Quebec City, Canada 1992 Main Street Arts 94 Main Street, Nyack, New York 1993 The Schoolhouse Gallery Croton Falls, New York 1993 The Poets Gallery Woodstock, New York 1994 Fletcher Gallery Woodstock, New York 1994 Studio 4 West Piermont, New York 1998 Fondazione "Ca la Ghironda" Zola Predosa, Bologna, Italia 2001-2002 Pomona Cultural Center Pomona, New York 2002 The Flywheel Gallery Piermont, New York 2005-2006 Pomona Cultural Center Pomona, New York 2006 ROCA-7 Artists Show West Nyack, New York 2008 Flywheel Gallery Piermont, New York 2009 Fairleigh Dickinson University Hackensack,NJ 2009 Flywheel Gallery Piermont,NY 2009 Pomona Cultural Center Pomona,NY 1992   Carl Jung Institute 39th St. New York City, New York 1993 Carl Jung Society Walter Reed Hospital, Washington DC 1993 The Great Mother Conference - Robert Bly Billjngs, Montana 2001 The Great Mother Conference - Robert Bly Nobleboro,Maine 2009 The Great Mother Conference - Robert Bly Nobleboro,Maine 1992   Return of the Goddess Hands of the Goddess Press Burleigh Muten, Editor 1994 Return of the Great Goddess Shambala Press Burleigh Muten, Editor 1998 Paintings of Ca la Ghironda Foundazione Ca la Ghironda 2008 Charcoals of Mark Weiss, Vol. 1 Self published, My Publisher.com 2008 Strange Encounters (The Descent) Self published, My Publisher.com 2008 The Awakening Self published, My Publisher.com 2008 When the Darkness Lifted(The Sun Below) Self published, My Publisher.com "The Human Zoo Painted with Smears, Slathers" The Indianapolis Star Steve Mannheimer June 18, 1989 "Weiss Paintings Have Tragic View of Mankind" The Indianapolis News Marion Garmei September 14, 1988 "The Poetry of Painting" The Rockland Journal News Nancy Cacioppo May 21, 1989 "Weiss Art High Point of Exhibit" The Daily Freeman James G.Shine November 5, 1993 "Moving Into The Darkness" Woodstock Times June 23, 1993 "Artists Work Shows Love of the Mystical" The Rockland Journal News Nancy Cacioppo July 1997 "L'energia di Mark Weiss" Robert Bly Agosto 1998 "Sulle apparizioni di Mark Weiss" Giuseppe Cordoni Agosto, 1998