Rachel Mica Weiss

LMAKgallery is hosting an exhibition titled “Liminal” by artist Rachel Mica Weiss at the gallery’s New York location.

L&L Holding Company announced today that it has partnered with New York-based online art gallery Uprise Art for the next installation in the company’s ongoing, public art exhibition series at 200 Fifth Avenue.

On responding to art -- and, in particular, the national student show at the Nash Gallery

El Grito Magazine: Carlos Carlos García Montero and María Paz Gastañeta, Ed. “Pieles y Pliegues.” El Grito Magazine [Lima, Perú] 1.4. 2011 [print].

This weekend as part of GO Brooklyn‘s open studios, I set out to visit a major hub of artist activity, the Chashama studios at the Brooklyn Army Terminal. Chashama is an organization that shares Recession Art’s goal of providing support and opportunity to young and emerging artists. The organization was founded in 1995 by Anita Durst and is dedicated to transforming unused and vacant spaces into studios and galleries.

This week's art openings within the gallery circuit and the San Francisco Arts Commission showcase local and international artists alike, in places prompting conversation between them.

Rachel Mica Weiss tries to create art that is disconcerting but also aesthetically stimulating. "Engulfing the Elusory," a window installation in San Francisco's Civic Center, is her latest attempt to make people stop and think.

To be blunt: It’s been quite difficult to write about Rachel Mica Weiss. Her seemingly simple artwork of woven fibers, heavy rocks, and large tapestries of knots deliver moments of considered contemplation. For me, that contemplation reduces my chances of finding something to write about. It’s like taking a really wonderful bubble bath, and then realizing that you’ve just been soaking in all your grimy dirt, so you have to get up and take a shower. With Rachel’s artwork, I enjoy my purposeful visual wandering around the surfaces of her objects and the physical game of hide-and-seek with other viewers around her stationary large sculptures. After an experience with her artwork, the last thing I want to do is sit down and write about it.

‘Experiment and Concept: Teaching, Learning, and Making at San Francisco Art Institute.’ Contemporary Artists Magazine. No. 4. Chongqing, China. 2013. [print].

Keep your spirits up as summer comes to an end by visiting the Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery at Nassau Community College in Garden City. Elevate is a group sculpture exhibition consisting of three large works: Twelve Planes (Locked and Crossed) by Rachel Mica Weiss, Containing Tenaciousness by Monika Zarzeczna and Untitled by Carolyn Salas. There will also be some small works to go along with the larger installations.

Sarah Walko: How do you usually start your day? do you like routine or not? Rachel Mica Weiss: With a huge cup of coffee. I’m definitely a creature of routine, a trait which is visible in my systematic and repetitive ways of working, too.

Sisyphus comes to mind when viewing Rachel Mica Weiss’s sculptures at Montserrat’s 301 Gallery. There are no hills, but there are rocks, metaphors for the stuff we strain against and work to overcome.

Artist Rachel Mica Weiss gave us a first look at her newest sculpture “Inverted Arches in Gold”, which will be installed at the Ashland in Brooklyn in Summer 2016. The soaring original installation combines custom-dyed nylon ropes and powder-coated steel to create a work that reveals new qualities at every vantage point.

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