Natural Forms: Paintings by Jennifer Weiss features works comprised of colors and textures extracted from the natural world to create new compositions, connecting the dissimilar modes of abstract and representational art in a meaningful way.

The work uses motifs seen in organic objects ranging from flowers and leaves to peacock feathers and pussy willows.  These familiar images are transformed using undercoats and layers of paint, allowing the artist to explore the extraordinary variance of texture and color yielded by the natural environment.  The final compositions simplify nature into a distinct aesthetic using incandescent colors and complex patterns which often resemble a sumptuous fabric in their finished states.

Ms. Weiss’s style and sense of color are heavily influenced by travel to places characterized by rich color schemes, such as Italy and the Southwestern United States, as well as changes in light and the darkening of plants during seasonal transitions.  She writes in her artist statement: “A bit of softening or blurriness in my brush stroke is occurring, a reference to the preciousness of time.”  The close relationship between the paintings’ color palettes and variations in the natural environment ruminate on the effects of time and change.