NINA WEISS, PAINTER
Nina Weiss is a nationally recognized landscape artist whose works are represented in private and corporate collections including United Airlines, Aetna Insurance, McDonalds, Eli Lilly, and Avon. Her paintings and drawings can be seen in two Hollywood films, “Chicago Fire” TV series; & has been reproduced in prints and posters. She exhibits widely and is represented by several galleries. Nina created a landscape drawing demonstration DVD for the Prismacolor company & the new Prismacolor Watercolor Pencil Brochure. Her work is included in the 2012 book “100 Artists of the Midwest” by Ashley Rooney and a new book for 2014; “Artists’ Studios”. Nina taught for more than fifteen years at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and Art Centers throughout the Midwest. Nina travels with students to Europe every summer for her European Landscape Painting & Drawing Workshops; and teaches throughout the summer in other beautiful locations!
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ARTIST STATEMENT
NINA WEISS: BEYOND GREEN
In 1980, I moved from the East Coast to the Midwest; trading cities for farmland. I was inspired by the huge vistas and far-off horizons of the Midwestern landscape and began my journey as a landscape painter. I feel a strong connection to the visuals of nature and our environment. I hope to translate the intensity and power of the landscape into my paintings. My work draws the viewer into a heightened vision of gesture and hue, depicting nature with colors that are intense, lush, and dramatic. The work goes beyond traditional ideas of a green landscape. I tease out the complex colors of nature, creating layers of contrast, line, and form. The paintings depict powerful moments from my travels through the everyday vistas; fields, waterways, farms and prairies of the Midwest and beyond. I hope to provide the viewer with an exciting, new, contemporary look at the traditional genre of landscape; to move the viewers’ understanding of landscape painting to a place “beyond green”.I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.
Oil on Canvas 54" x 54"
Oil on Canvas 48" x 24"
Oil on Canvas 48" x 48"
Oil on Canvas 40" x 60"
Oil on Canvas 48" x 48"
Oil on Canvas 40" x 60"