Glenn Weiss
I seek the new and challenging. My foundations arise from the artist empowerment of the artist organization movement of the late 70s & 80s, the practice of community participation and consensus building from Seattle, a love of racial, ethnic, gender and social diversity from South Florida, and innovation and experimentation in public space, public art and architecture.
To every community, client or agency, I strive for imaginative and unexpected artistic interventions in the physical and social spaces of cities, neighborhoods and art institutions. With years of public art management, I specialize in project success within specific budgets and in finding project support of services or money from government agencies, business districts, foundations and sponsors. I make sure that every project or event has a diversity of artists and visitors, that any new artwork survives its intended lifetime in good condition and that the natural curiosity for knowledge and understanding can be satisfied at the sites and through most forms of media.
As an artist, a primary direction of my work addresses the existing and potential transformation of physical elements of publicly accessible spaces that make up the character of the neighborhood or city such as a park, beach, parking lot, house, lawn, street, sidewalk, railings and mailboxes. Multiples of industrial production, human cultural habits and nature itself are examined for a meaningless individuality among the repetition. Weather, pollution, insects and molds bring the texture to the multiple. In the opposite direction, some projects strike against cultural habits and interject themselves in public and semi-public spaces. I imagine new cultural habits of individuality and self-expression in the physical space of a community, city, or planet
Master of Architecture, Columbia University, New York
BA, Fine Arts, Bucknell University
Studied Architecture, Georgia Tech
South Florida 2000-2008 & 2012-Present
Seattle 1986-2000
New York City 1979-1986 & 2008-2011
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Raised
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Weiss Artwork Tags
Asphalt Beach Climate Ground Ideas Installation Landscape Loss Performance Photography Repetition
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