Marilyn Weiss

Marilyn Weiss

            Marilyn Weiss is a mixed media artist who works with the National Association of Women artists, the Contemporary Artist Guild, along with other organizations for contemporary art.  Weiss mainly works with painting, printmaking, or paper art.  Within these mediums, she creates collages using found objects such as fabric, photocopies, and pieces of books.  The subject matter that Marilyn Weiss focuses on is a feminine theme.  She frequently uses imagery of the female body in her work.  Though Weiss has a prevalent theme of feminism, she is not actively trying to convey a message.  Rather, she wants each piece to provoke emotions in the viewer that are relevant to their own lives. 

            I like Marilyn Weiss’s use of mixed media within her artworks.  I especially enjoy the combination of painting or printmaking with the found objects.  I was inspired when I read her artist statement, because she said she only uses objects that she feels a connection to, and she lets the media do all the work.  I like that she is a believer in “happy accidents”, and her work reflects this humorous take on art while still holding a lot of meaning.  It is evident that she has found a connection to her artwork through the labor of finding objects.