Bio

My work explores mark making, patterning, gesture, awareness and paring down to essentials. The works are about an universal shared space while retaining an intimate meditative quality. For me, process of art making reflects living in general. I am interested in what the process has to teach about living wisely. I love the idea of changing the larger world by everyone starting with themselves. I am interested in heading toward more positive thought, working from instinct, relying on chance occurrences with a reliance on repetition as a grounding element. The connection between place, process, materials and form in relation to a meditative state is essential. Non objective forms that predate label, forms imperfect and evolving are of interest. The work is inspired by architecture, primitive art, metaphysics and the practice of yoga. I am concerned for the state of the earth, the feminine wave and the reflective slow revolution of expanding consciousness.

Lisa Weiss: Education and Honors

MFA, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1995
BFA, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 1989

Awards:

2016 The Studio of Key West: Artist Residency
2013 Images in ‘Inquiring Mind’, a Buddhist Journal
2008 Yandara Yoga Teacher Training: Todos Santos, MX.
2008 ‘The Conversation’: Inspired from the painting ‘Empire’: Rock Hill, SC.
2005 Nantucket School of Art & Design: Artist Residency, Nantucket Island, MA.
2004 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation: Artist Residency, Taos, NM.
2003 Maho Bay Environmental Arts Program: Artist Residency, St Johns, VI.
2001 Millay Artist Colony: Artist Residency, Austerlitz, NY.
1999 Hunter Museum Purchase Award: Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN.
1998 Dorland Mountain Artist Colony: Artist Residency, Temecula, CA.

Lisa Weiss: Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

New Works, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2018
Ephemera, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2017
Visual Poetry, Murray At Guild, Murray, KY, 2017
Modern Revisited, JLB Gallery, Hopkinsville, KY, 2017
Maps, Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2016
hap.pen.stance, Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2015
Layer & Mark, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2015
Thin Space, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2013
Nature Forms, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2010
Solo Exhibition, Waterworks Art Center, Salisbury, NC, 2010
Solo Exhibition, Gallery Up, Rock Hill, SC, 2009
Papillon, solo, Gallery Up, Rock Hill, SC, 2008
Prana, solo, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2007
Inner Garden, solo, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2005
Between Moments, Art Forms, Memphis, TN, 2004
Flux, Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN, 2003
Asención, Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN, 2001
Ascension, Inaugural Opening, Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, TN, 2000
Works by Lisa Weiss, Exit Gallery, Hattiesburg, MS, 1998

Selected Group Exhibitions
Grand Reopening Celebration, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2019
Small Works Exhibition, Key West, FL, 2019
Two Person Show, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK, 2019
The Show Must Go On, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2018
Awake – a Benefit for Women & Child Equality, Nashville, TN, 2018
Shake, Rattle and Roll, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2018
Abstraction, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2018
Two Person Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2018
New Works, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2017
Small packages, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2017
Modern Primitive, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK, 2017
‘Resist’ Nasty Woman Benefit, Moonlight Studios, Chicago IL, 2017
#HereToStay: Art of Resilience, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2017
No: 10 Anniversary Show, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2016
Three Person Show, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK, 2016
Small Works Exhibition, Lemonade Stand, Key West, FL, 2016
Dig Conference with Show & Tell Art & Design, 2015
Show & Tell Art & Design, Online Exhibition, Charleston, SC, 2014
MTSU Alumni Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Murfreesboro, TN, 2014
Lemonade Stand, Small Works Exhibition, Key West, FL, 2014
Bevy, Group Exhibition, Julia Martin Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2014
Summer Moon, Twilight Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2014
Three Person Show, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN, 2013
Inaugural Opening, Copper Fox Gallery, Leipers Fork, TN, 2012
Common Thread, Anton and Lisa Weiss, L Ross Gallery, 2012
Works on Paper, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2012, 2011
Holiday Group Exhibition, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2012, 2011
Group Exhibition, Nina Kuzina Fine Art, Nashville, TN, 2011
Summer Group Exhibition, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2011
7 in 11 Group Exhibition, Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, TN, 2011
Holiday Group Show, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2010
Works on Paper, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2010
Group Exhibition, Gossamer Collective, Seattle, WA, 2010
Group Exhibition, Emerald Gallery, Fairfield, IA, 2009
Seedlings Exhibition, Waterworks Art Center, Salisbury, NC, 2009
Sequence, group show, Project A, Nashville, TN, 2007
New Works, two-person show, Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, TN, 2006
Anniversary Exhibition, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2006
Summer Group Exhibition, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2006
7th Annual All Media International, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, 2005
Grand Opening, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2005
Faculty Exhibition, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM, 2002
Strong Voices, group show, Art Forms, Memphis, TN, 2002
Remembrance, group show, Hanson Gallery, Knoxville, TN, 2001
Quest, Two-person exhibition, Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, 2001
National Miniature Exhibit, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999

Lisa Weiss: Public Collections

Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN
Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Knoxville, TN
Creative Arts Guild (Purchase Award), Dalton, GA
Glanker Brown Law, Memphis, TN
Harrah’s, Las Vegas, NV
Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC
Hot Springs National park Collection, Hot Springs, AR
Hunter Museum of Art (Purchase Award), Chattanooga, TN
Iberia Bank, Memphis, TN
Iowa University Art Collection
Sand Point Corporation, Sand Point, FL
Tennessee Watercolor Society (Purchase Award), Nashville, TN
*Private Collections: United States, Canada, United Kingdom,
Germany, Australia, Holland