April 5 – May 31

opening Friday, April 5th, 5-7pm

​Richard Weis​ is a resident of Castleton, Vermont, ​art professor emeritus at Green Mountain College​, and ​Fulbright award winner​​. This group of works on paper feature ​bold images in ink and watercolor ​where the brushwork ​is informed by Weis’ lifelong admiration and study of East Asian arts.
While visiting and observing South Korean artists creating stylistically various artwork, Weis “began to see that there was a cultural underpinning or foundation in their work that was reflected in their heightened sensitivity to the qualities of the materials they were using. I came back with a renewed sense of the important relationship between craftsmanship and expressive form.”
With ever gaining knowledge of his brushes, tools, and mediums Weis is able to create energetic compositions with a natural balance.
Weis’ work has been exhibited widely in the US and abroad. He was invited to be a visiting artist at Aberystwyth University in Wales and received a Fulbright Scholar Award to work as an artist in residence in South Korea.

“My artwork usually begins with a response to an external or internal stimulus, often with something as simple as a heightened awareness of smell, a color, a shape, or a sensation on the skin. Sometimes it begins with an observation of the things around me in the landscape or of those that inhabit that environment, resulting in an awareness of relationships or events that strike me in a new way. It may evoke associations and cause me to reflect upon time, place, and circumstance. During the working part of the process the artwork unfolds, revealing itself in its making. The work becomes a visual artifact of my engagement with the world. The painted stroke, the mark on the surface, the relationships between forms all carry meaning not unlike sound in music. I ask the viewer to listen with their eyes.”