Edward A Weiss

About the Artist

Edward Weiss Bio After a childhood stage debut as Little Tommy Tucker in Babes in Toyland at BAM in Brooklyn, NY, Edward Weiss has spent half a century pursuing one kind of art form or another. Recent years have marked a shift towards visual art and music. Born in NY, NY, he moved to Baltimore, MD in 2012 and has been there ever since. In 2016, original art, photos, and scripts from Edward Weiss’ serial, The Onyx Fool (which ran for three months at the legendary East Village performance space 8BC) became part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Archive of American Art in Washington DC. His work as a performer, and/or creator, has been shown at numerous venues including: The Pyramid Club, CBGBs, The Kitchen, BAM, La Mama, Theater For The New City (all in NYC), and The Mark Taper Theater Complex in LA. In 2011-12 Weiss’s multi-disciplinary conceptual public art installation, The Forgotten History of Staten Island (about the unreliability of history), was sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA). It appeared on the streets of New York City, in the Staten Island Museum, and Online. In 2011-12. His visual art including the Modern Venus series has been shown at numerous galleries in New York, and on the Art or Something Like it TV program, as well as Consolidated Works and Town Hall in Seattle, where they were featured in the 1st and 2nd Seattle Erotic Arts Festival. In manuscript form, his illustrated book Peter Pigeon of Snug Harbor won the 2006 COAHSI Award for Literary Excellence sponsored by JP Morgan Chase and Poets & Writers, as an unpublished manuscript. It was published in 2009 by Rocky Hollow Press. In 2013 he created the Campaign to Keep Baltimore Inexplicable, a consciousness-raising conceptual art endeavor. Activity in the Baltimore/DC area over the past few years has included exhibitions (drawing) at Gallery CA in Greenmount West, Baltimore street photography from his Delirious Baltimore series) at the Gateway Arts Center in Brentwood MD, and a one-man show at Wishbone Reserve; as well as music gigs at Sidebar and Reverb.