Helene...

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Helene Weiss attended Boston University’s School of Fine & Applied Arts and received scholarships to study and work on her craft at the Brooklyn Museum of Art as well as the well-known Provincetown Workshop, an incubator for talented artists from around the world. While in Provincetown, famous artists Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler, who owned a home there, became her mentors.

 

 



1992, "Self Portrait #1" Oil on Canvas

....and Mark Rothko

Weiss is often compared to Mark Rothko when critics and collectors interpret the use of color, form, layering, composition and juxtaposition in her work. Weiss redefines how the canvas can be used to communicate with the viewer. Many of her paintings pull in and reflect natural light, changing the tone and message of each painting with each turn and position of its viewer. 

 

 

 

2005, "Black Stripe," Acrylic on Canvas

Helene Weiss was interviewed by Metromix magazine

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On Wednesday, Miami Beach artist Helene Weiss took a break to discuss Weiss Works, her show of 20 paintings that opens at Miami Light Project's Light Box on Friday. Before our interview Weiss and her sister were sifting through Weiss's drawings — 300 of them, all done in less than three weeks. It's not that Weiss was scrambling to meet some mad deadline. It's just how she works. Weiss, who was featured in the book Miami Contemporary Artists, draws when she goes to bed at night, when she listens to jazz, and when she watches television ... Depite the number of drawings she produces, she doesn't base her paintings on them. In fact, until her brush hits the canvas, she has no idea where it's taking her. But based on the seemingly eccentric characters that emerge, I'd say it's an interesting place to visit. Read the entire interview here.

A contemporary Miami artist

Helene Weiss is featured in the critically acclaimed  book, Miami Contemporary Artists. 
From the book:

"Miami: The landscape, the horizons... the city allows my mind clearness to paint. The colors, the spaciousness, the ryhthm. All combine to give way for my inspiration."


Blissful and challenging

Of her own work, Weiss writes: 

“My paintings are about color, line and form. The most important aspect is to have the viewer connect with the canvas and the emotion they see there.”

“Painting for me is blissful and challenging,” Weiss notes. “I delight in expressing an image that takes you to another place.” Weiss believes she is in Miami at this time for a very special reason, “Miami has grown so much in how it is perceived in the art world. I am grateful to be a part of the international cognizance of the talent that is inherent here. One does not have to leave Florida anymore to find world-class artists.”



2005, "Globe," Acrylic, Enamel and Oil Crayon on Canvas

The Sublime Essence of Being

“I have painted for many years,” she says, “and eventually found my inner voice.” Her current series of paintings, titled as a whole, The Sublime Essence of Being, are abstract expressions and still-lives interpreted in a way that distinctly realizes color, shape and texture, unfolding these elements on the canvas as if each painting were a great piece of music.





 

 

2005, "Blue Square," Acrylic, Enamel and Oil Crayon on Canvas



Exhibits

Helene Weiss' art has been exhibited in New York and Miami.