My current work is a negotiation between collecting and organizing visual information. The repetition of certain shapes, being used within the order of a grid, has allowed me to create a specific pictorial language derived from a vocabulary of simple forms. While sources for these shapes come from industrial or synthetic materials such as traffic cones or bubble wrap, the removal of these material attributes from their original context is part of my exploration of both their factual and fictional qualities. When operating in this binary, the shapes become the space of their making.

In addition my work relies heavily on the illusion of a system. By using tools such as stencils or collage to create the images, a concern for the tension between absence and presence is further explored. For me, a shape is both positive and negative, equally made by the space around it as by the pressure within. It is the search for this state of equilibrium between space and object, or what Alfred Jensen described as "numerical and prismatic concerns" that I believe my paintings strive for.

 
 

Jenna Weiss

weiss.jenna@gmail.com

 

Education

 

2008 - 2010     M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2007 - 2008     Post-Baccalaureate Program, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2003 - 2007     B.A. Studio Art, B.A. Art History, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2006                Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France

2005                Temple University Rome Program, Rome, Italy

 

Solo and Group Exhibitions

 

2011                Promises of Greatness: Young Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA 

                        Duets, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

                        Victory For Tyler, Alumni Exhibtion, The Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA

                        An Oasis of Thought, The Crane Old School, Philadelphia, PA

                        Window on Broad, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

                        Refuge Reading Room, Curated by Amze Emmons, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

 

2010                Two Dozen, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA

                        Jenna Weiss and Ryan McCartney, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

                        Binary, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Collaboration [2010], Presser Hall Atrium, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

The Smile Without the Cat, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Works on Paper Rejects, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

2008                Juried Show 2008, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA

Prospect II, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Festival of the Creative Arts, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

 

2007                Senior Honors, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

 

2006                Summer Session I, CIAC Gallery, Pont-Aven, France

sixteen, Dreitzer Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

 

Grants and Awards

 

2011                Chashama Studio Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY

2008                Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Performing Arts Project Grant

2007                Paul F. Caine Memorial Fellowship

Highest Honors in Fine Arts at Brandeis University

2006                Remis Fellowship for Summer Study in Art

Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art Summer Scholarship

 

Related Experience

 

2012                Adjunct Lecturer, Drawing I, Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ 

2009 - 2011     Adjunct Faculty, Intermediate Drawing, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA  

2010                Program Coordinator, Summer Painting Intensive, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2008 - 2009     Program Operations Coordinator, Studio Practice, Yale Summer Session, Auvillar, France

2008                Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Printmaking, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2007                Teaching Assistant, Beginning Painting, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2007                Intern/Teaching Assistant, Studio Practice, Pont-Aven School of Art, Pont-Aven, France

2006                Teaching Assistant, SummerArts Program, The Jewish Museum, New York

 

Collections

 

The Rose Museum of Contemporary Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Bernstein-Marcus Administration Building, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Private Collection, Belmont, MA

Private Collection, Cambridge, MA

Private Collection, Elkins Park, PA

 

Bibliography

 

Rosof, Libby. "Jenna Weiss at Grizzly Grizzly tries Xerox" http://theartblog.org/" Posted Dec 1, 2010

 

Critical Writing


De Kooning: A Retrospective: Part 1 "http://title-magazine.com/2011/12/de-kooning-a-retrospective-part-1/" Posted Dec 2, 2011

Logan Grider, Recent Work "http://www.title-magazine.com/2012/02/logan-grider-recent-work/" Posted Feb 16, 2012