Jeff Weiss Exhibition - Laurence Miller Gallery

Laurence Miller Gallery Exhibition May 24 - June 29, 2001

Jeff Weiss The Big Boys are Coming

The Big Boys are Coming is Jeff Weiss' first one-person exhibition at the Laurence Miller Gallery. The exhibition features eight large-scale color works that join photography and painting through the use of the computer, and that combine humor with horror. In the artwork Excursion, a fifteen-foot wide triptych, we simultaneously witness white water rafters, black smoke billowing out of the distant landscape reminiscent of Kuwait, an absurd but real dolphin shaped aircraft, and a wide assortment of contemporary details within a traditional painterly space. In Multi-Use Area (Bronco), an idyllic foreground of flowers, butterflies, and hummingbirds is juxtaposed with jarring and unsettling acts of violence: a hunter points his rifle at lovers hidden behind a wall; a nuclear-type disaster unfolds on the horizon; and a fleet of yellow helicopters, appearing like a swarm of bees, disrupts the gorgeous afternoon sky. Jeff Weiss has been exhibiting painting, photography and sculpture since 1970. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He currently teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology, and lives in New York and Vermont.

All images are C-prints on Fuji Crystal Archive paper and also available as 30 x 40" prints.

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