Seeking competence in figure painting, I spent the better part of six years drawing and painting the figure in art school, and after leaving, continued the notion of the figure in the interior. My goal was to create a visual diary that would be a pictorial record of artists and friends. Then, as now, I was intrigued by the portrait and figure as a most sacred subject. As a landscape painter I was self-taught, and I struggled for a long time to find my vocabulary. It took many years for me to realize a structural approach, looking for the anatomy that exists in landscape as it surely does in the human subject. Since moving to Connecticut in 1994 and painting outdoors in earnest, I have become better at emphasizing abstraction of shapes. I want to refer to the individuality of the subject, those characteristics which render a person or place unique. For me this also means not merely noting the external beauty of things, but going after something a bit deeper. Put another way, I try to paint temporal qualities, but composed in such as way as to render them timeless. Evident in my work is an enchantment with the feminine, fascination with psychological nuances, and love for the natural and architectonic shapes of landscape. I am amazed by the color of skin, continually gratified to recognize bone and muscle beneath the surface, and delighted by the powerful forms underlying the Maine coast and Connecticut River Valley. If I may be permitted understatement, I also like light, without which there would exist no space, form or visual coherence.

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Jerry Weiss teaches figure drawing/painting and landscape painting year-round
at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut,
as well as workshops around the country.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

"Observations From Life: Temporal and Timeless''
at the Ruggiero Gallery, Madison, Connecticut, May 2-June 16, 2008
www.ruggierogallery.com


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RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Jenkins and Ingram Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine
New England Landscape Invitational, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT


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PAST EXHIBITIONS

"The Faculty Exhibition"
Chauncey Stillman Gallery, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
September 30 - November 5, 2005

Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY June 3 - September 4, 2005
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition

"The Magic of Maine"at Steven J. Rowe AntiquesBlue Hill, ME
July 29 - August 13, 2005

Jerry Weiss, "The Contemporary Figure"
Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center, West Hartford, CT, May 19 - June 16, 2005


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SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
New Federal Courthouse, Boston, MA
Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY
Abraham Art Foundation, Canadian, Texas
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey W. Cooley, Old Lyme, CT
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,MA
The Harvard Club of New York, NY
Pfizer, Inc., Groton, CT
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Rubin, New York, NY
Book of the Month Club, New York, NY
Goodwin and Goodwin, Charleston, WV
Herrick and Feinstein, New York, NY
Mr. Don Shula, South Florida

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ
The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
Slater Museum, Norwich, CT
Monmouth Museum, Monmouth, NJ
Bergen Museum, Bergen, NJ
Lotos Club, New York, NY
Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
National Arts Club, New York, NY
Bernhard Gallery, University of
Bridgeport CT


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Ocean House Gallery, Port Clyde, Maine 2004
Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT, 2002
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, 1999
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
Judy Goffman Fine Art, New York, NY
A.M. Adler Fine Arts, New York, NY

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
The Cooley Gallery
The Brigham Galleries


AWARDS AND HONORS
Best in Show, Hortt Annual
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida
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New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Fellowship for Painting
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Julius Hallgarten Prize, 167th Annual, National Academy of Design, New York
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Isaac Maynard Prize, 159th Annual,
National Academy of Design, New York
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Silver Medal, 43rd Audubon Artists Annual, New York


LISTINGS
Who's Who in American Art
Who's Who in the East
The Best of Sketching and Drawing
'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Master',
Christian Science Monitor