Department of Art and Art History
"The pencil speaks the tongue of every land."
— Alexander Pope
Monika Weiss
Assistant Professor of Studio Art
E-mail: mweiss2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7476
Office: Constance Stuart Larrabee Art Center
Teaching Philosophy
In my teaching the study of contemporary art reflects the continuously expanding field of visual and cross-disciplinary expression. It is more than acquiring a selection of studio techniques. It facilitates an awakening of intellectual drive, philosophical understanding, and ethical principles, which together serve to engage and express the complexity of contemporary life.
Education
Professor Weiss earned her M.F.A. in 1989 in the Department of Painting and Drawing, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland. She is currently working towards her Ph.D degree at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, England, a research center integrating art, science and technology, where international artists, theoreticians and scholars develop their research into new media arts.
Office Hours
Professor Weiss is on sabbatical leave during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Biographical Note
Through her interdisciplinary practice the internationally acclaimed artist Monika Weiss creates environments that explore the body as cultural and physical signifier, in the context of historical and individual memory. Weiss works in drawing, performance, sculpture, video and sound, often combining these elements into large-scale public installations. Her work was recently featured at Kunsthaus Dresden (Germany), North Dakota Museum of Contemporary Art, Grand Forks (USA), ArteBA, Buenos Aires (Argentina), The Facto Foundation, Trancoso (Portugal), Instytut Sztuki WYSPA, Gdansk (Poland), and Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal (Canada). In 2005 the artist's first partial retrospective exhibition was on view at the Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, followed by the publication of a monographic survey of her work "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers." Weiss' works are represented in multiple public collections including FrauenMuseum, Bonn (Germany), Museum Albertina, Vienna (Austria) and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (USA). Weiss' work had been critically discussed in numerous publications including "POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art," Real Art Ways, Hartford, 2008 and "Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art" (I. B.Tauris, London, 2007). Weiss is also an author of several essays reflecting on her practice, including in "Homo Ludens Ludens," LABoral, Gijon, 2008 and in "Technoetic Arts," London, 2006. Weiss is currently co-editor of the contemporary drawing magazine "Tracey" published by Laughborough University, UK. Weiss frequently lectures on her work, including most recently at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2008) and Museum Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain (2009).
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Courses and Seminars taught
Contemporary Practices and Methods in Studio Art, Video Art and Theory, Post-1945 Revolutions in Art and Theory, Advanced Drawing and Beginning Drawing.
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