Rage Births Riot
Ellyn Weiss
GALLERY III
Ellyn Weiss, I Bight, 2022, Dye, ink, spray enamel, and oil bar on canvas, 40 x 58 inches
February 11–March 12, 2023
Opening reception: Saturday, February 11 from 6–8pm
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Rage Births Riot, a solo exhibition by National Member Ellyn Weiss. Weiss will present new work, including paintings in dye, ink, and spray enamel on raw canvas. This is Weiss’s first solo show in New York City.
The series was begun in the fall of 2021, immediately after the Supreme Court allowed the Texas abortion ban to take effect; it reflects the artist’s continuing rage at this unprincipled attack on the basic human rights of American women and their families. This work is the closest to figurative that Weiss has gone. It is made with dye, inks, spray enamel and a bit of acrylic on raw canvas. The rawness of the work matches the rawness of the anger.
Ellyn Weiss is a visual artist working in two and three dimensions and an independent curator, based in Washington, D.C. and Truro, MA. She has had over twenty-five solo and featured shows and has exhibited in numerous curated group exhibitions. She strives to engage with the issues that face our community and our world. Much of her work speaks to the existential threat posed by global climate change and to the assault on the human rights of women. The Washington Post has described her murals as “volcanic” and her wax artifacts as “show-stoppers.”
In 2017, Weiss co-founded an artists’ collaborative called ArtWatchDC and conceived the One House Project, a collaboration of three-hundred artists celebrating the strength that diversity brings our country.
Weiss serves on the Boards of Directors of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a national environmental organization, was a founding Board member of the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts in DC, and was formerly President of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. www.ellynweiss.com
View the Press Release here.
View Ellyn Weiss’s page here.
Photography: Matthew Sherman