About

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Robert p. Weiss

For over fifty years I have painted the urban landscape. At times my interest in this subject has been driven by the complex and diverse forms that this landscape presents, at times by the strong emotions that these images reveal to me about my growing up in this environment, at times as an historical document of a great city and at times as a means of exploring what I believe to be the magic of image making. I feel that all these elements are present in my most personally satisfying work. The absence of people in these paintings is related to my desire to have the viewers relate to the work on their own terms and not see the landscape through the eyes of someone other than the artist and the viewer.

One Person Shows

  • Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2003, 2005

  • Westwood Gallery, SoHo , New York, N.Y. 2003

  • Gallery East, East Hampton, N.Y. 1998

  • Adrirondack Art Association, Essex, N.Y. 1997

  • Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda, Maryland. 1982 and 1984.

  • Long Island University, Salena Library Learning Center, N.Y. 1978

Selected Group Shows

  • 19th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY, 2023

  • Below a Brooklyn Sky  EST. Established Gallery Brooklyn, N.Y. 2022 

  • Art Over Time: BWAC Gallery Brooklyn, 2021

  • Connections V (2021) , VI (2022) and VII (2023): Atlantic Gallery NYC

  • Still Working: Atlantic Gallery NYC 2018

  • Interpreting the Brooklyn landscape : Four Artists Central Brooklyn Library, 2010

  • Artist As Traveler, Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2007

  • Sentinels: Water Towers of New York, Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn N.Y. 2005

  • Crossings, Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2004

  • National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts 2002, 04

  • Brooklyn Images Brooklyn Artists, Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2002

  • Building Against the Sky, Michael Ingbar Gallery, NYC 2001

  • Tale of Three Cities, Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2001

  • Realism 2000, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska 2000

  • Tamed Views, Agora Gallery, N.Y.C. 1996

  • Made in Brooklyn, Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1993

  • National Competition, Bowery Gallery, N.Y.C. 1992

  • Contemporary Realism V, Leslie levy Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona 1992

  • Realism ’90 ’96 ’97 ’98 Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Viriginia

  • National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic :

    1989, 90, 94, 99, 2000, 01, 02, 04, 05, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18

  • Recent Realism, Clary Miner Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. 1988, 1990

  • Mainstream America, Butler Art Institute of American Art, Ohio 1987

  • Butler Institute of American Art Midyear Show, Ohio 1980, 1982, 1983

  • Brooklyn Artists, Brooklyn Museum, New York 1977, 1979, 1983

  • Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Show, Golden, Colorado 1978

  • Art as Criticism, Terrain Gallery, N.Y.C. 1976

  • Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey Annual, 1975, 1976

  • Silvermine Guild of Artists New England Exhibit, 1974, 1975

  • Awards

  • GAGO 2022 All City Landscapes Art Competion, Gallery Choice Award

  • GAGO 2017 All City Landscapes Art Competion, Gallery Choice Award

  • Marion de Sola Mendes Award, Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic. 2015

  • Howard Mandel and Ed Graham Award, Society of Painters in and Casein and Acrylic. 2014

  • Jerry Lenfest Award for American Art, Society of Painters in and Casein and Acrylic. 2011

  • Ralph Fabri Award, Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic. 2005. Juror- Morton Kaish.

  • First Place Award National Small Oil painting Exhibition, Wichita Center For The Arts. 2002 Juror – Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury

  • Jerry Lenfest Award for American Art, Society of Painters in and Casein and Acrylic. 2000. Juror – Philip Pearlstein

  • Purchase Award, Realism 1998, Parkersburg Art Center, West Virginia.

  • Award of Merit, Realism 1997, Parkersburg Art Center, West Virginia.

  • Michael M. Engel Award, Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic 1990

  • Davis Soloway Award, 1989 Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic.

  • Butler Institute of American Art Midyear Show, Award of Merit medal 1980. Juror – Sidney Goodman

  • Painters and Sculptors Society of New Jersey, National Arts Club NYC 1st prize oils 1975.

  • Featured in:

  • New York Times City Section December 21, 2008 Dispatches A Brother’s Art, Lost and Found by Jake Mooney

  • Industry Magazine March/April 2013 True Grit Park Slope Artist Robert Weiss Talks Turkey About His Craft, Gentrification, and the Sweet Science by Catherine Gigante-Brown

  • Acrylic Artist Magazine Spring 2015 Robert Weiss Brooklyn,New York Interview with Anne Hevener