EJay Weiss

EJay Weiss is a painter who lives and works in Manhattan. His paintings combine elements of the natural landscape within a rotational restructuring of the picture plane- suggesting an entirely different way of experiencing the 2nd dimension as more a meditative than material surface. By creating a geologic-like matrix of paint that draws upon quantum physics and scientific logic, Weiss portrays an array of life forms that spin to and from the viewer, adding a paradoxical sense of timelessness to physical depth.

In 2008 the artist began a series of seascapes, presenting rocks, shells, and marine life resting on the seabed, as hues of ocean swirl in the space around. For Weiss, the formless fluid substance of paint generates a gravitational momentum across the canvas, before settling and drying into its own geologic field. Seascape With Cockle Shells (2011) combines acrylic paint, beach sand, and pumice gel on canvas and draws the viewer into the submerged, sea-tumbled space of two large-scale shells. A Seascape with Snail Shells (2010-2011) features an array of marine husks fused together within a tidal pull, and sea spray that appears physically palpable. The top of the composition captures a sliver of relatively still ocean, sandwiched below a bright blue sky. The entire surface resonates with energy.

Beginning August 20, 2011, EJay Weiss will exhibit 12 large paintings in a solo show at Saint Peter’s Church Narthex Gallery, at the Citicorp Plaza in Manhattan, titled 9/11 Elegies: 2001-2011. This series of paintings will be on view until September 25, 2011 in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. The 9/11 National Memorial Museum, under construction at Ground Zero, plans to eventually feature these panels in its permanent exhibition space.