Jessica Weiss is a New York-based artist whose distinctive collage practice transforms wallpaper into explorations of texture, color, and domestic psychology. A native New Yorker, Weiss received her BA from Oberlin College and studied at the New York Studio School in the mid-1970s. Since discovering wallpaper as her primary medium in the early 1980s, Weiss has mined these fragments of domestic culture for their optical and psychological resonance, combining salvaged wallpaper with silkscreened patterns, fabric, and paint. Her work interrogates the decorative vocabularies of interior spaces, revealing the complex visual and emotional landscapes embedded in everyday materials. Weiss received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting in 1989. She has mounted solo exhibitions at 490 ATLANTIC (Brooklyn), Outlet Fine Art (Bushwick), A.M. Richard Fine Art (Brooklyn), and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (New York City). Her work has been featured in notable group exhibitions, including "Two Friends and So On" at Andrew Kreps, "Seaworthy" at Edward Thorpe, "Three Degrees of Separation" at Sonnabend Gallery, and "The Stroke" (selected by Elizabeth Murray) at Exit Art. Weiss's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, TimeOut NY, The Baltimore Sun, and the New York Observer. Her paintings are held in permanent collections, including the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College.
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