MICHAEL WEISS

About the Artist

Michael Weiss is a Baltimore-based artist who uses traditional painting materials and methods to create contemporary images containing oblique, but not opaque content. He has exhibited widely throughout the region and his work is a part of numerous private and corporate collections.

Artist's Statement

All art-making is a process of abstraction and distillation. The choice to delve thoroughly into the visual language of abstraction is one of conscious certainty.  My current work explores the manner in which intellectual constructs constantly shift as they contact the eddies and whirls of the stream of consciousness. The edges of this interaction, where so-called “gray areas” arise, hold a fascination for me. It is in this unmapped territory that definitions break down and the dynamics of abstract and intuitive thought begin. Forms move in and out of focus as ideas circulate through the mind. The act of painting is a physical counterpart of this process of exploration and discovery. The organic nature of my work develops through the manipulation of paint and surface to reveal an image, offering information of a potential, rather than specific meaning with which viewers may engage in dialogue.