Dick Weis
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Many of my recent works have been influenced by my residency at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth in 2002 and work as a Fulbright Artist-in-Residence in South Korea in 2003 followed by additional trips to Korea in 2004, 2005, and 2006. I am grateful to the Fulbright Scholar Program, the University of Wales - Aberystwyth, Hannam University, Green Mountain College and the Vermont Arts Council for making those experiences possible. In the natural world and the world constructed by human-kind the interaction of one idea, form, or image with another takes place in a fascinating variety of ways. I see tension, compromise, dependency, accommodation, resolution, contrast, and harmony everywhere and I am constantly intrigued by the dynamics of these interactions. |
As an artist I am often compelled to record these moments and place them directly before the viewer. More often than not however, I use the process of art making to explore the idea, examining the dynamics of the idea through the exploration of visual form. The nuances of the visual language of line, shape, color, texture and space become the means by which I explore the inner and external worlds in which I live. The works are artifacts of that exploration.
"...to learn what it is to be human now, is the reason we follow this star..." - from W.H. Auden