Biography

Ejay Weiss (1942-2018) was an artist who lived and worked in New York City. 

From 1960 to 1963 Weiss studied Architecture and Painting with Sibyl Moholy-Nagy at Pratt Institute. From 1963 to 1965 he studied painting at New York University.

Since then, Weiss has combined elements of the natural landscape within a rotational restructuring of the picture plane - suggesting an entirely different way of experiencing the 2nd dimension as more a meditative than material surface.  By creating a geologic-like matrix of paint that draws upon quantum physics and scientific logic, Weiss portrays an array of life forms that spin to and from the viewer, adding a paradoxical sense of timelessness to physical depth.

In 2008 the artist began a series of seascapes, presenting rocks, shells, and marine life resting on the seabed, as hues of ocean swirl in the space around. For Weiss the formless, fluid substance of paint generates a gravitational momentum across the canvas, before settling and drying into its own geologic field. 

Ejay Weiss’s most memorable work began in response to the events of September 11th, 2001. In the immediate aftermath, the artist began “9/11 Elegy” - a series of 9 panels that have been acquired by the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Prior to the opening of the Museum in 2016, Weiss exhibited “9/11 Elegy” in 9/11 ELEGIES: 2001-2011, a solo show that took place at the Narthex Gallery of Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church located at the Citicorp Plaza in Manhattan.