Collection: Florence Weisz

Bio

Florence Weisz was born in New York and maintained an art studio in South Orange, northern New Jersey, for 35 years. After earning a degree in Fine Art from Douglass College, Rutgers University, she studied in Paris and then in Jerusalem, where she also lived for eight eventful years, teaching art in special education schools.

Over the years she has established a full time studio art practice and enjoyed many opportunities to exhibit her art throughout the Metro New York area and beyond. The birth of her irresistible granddaughter four and a half years ago in Ardmore, drew her toward Pennsylvania. Florence and her husband sold their NJ home and in January 2018 relocated to Wynnewood. She has joined the Mainline Art Center and the DaVinci Art Alliance. She was fortunate to be offered a solo show at the Gladwyne Library Gallery this past May and June, to fill in a sudden hole in the curator's schedule. In the last six months she has met quite a few local artists and looks forward to finding a place for herself in the art community of the Philadelphia area.

Florence has participated in exhibitions at galleries and museums, alternative spaces, including solo, group, juried and invitational shows in the US and abroad.

Her most recent solo exhibitions were "Presidential Manipulations Retrospective Four Decades, Six Presidents" - SOMA Studio Tour; "Sensuous Stripes" - Gallery 103, Maplewood, NJ; "Cautionary Tales: The Blurry Line Between Collecting and Hoarding" - Palmer Museum, Springfield, NJ, Maplewood Memorial Library, NJ and the Gladwyne Library Gallery, PA; "Stones of Resonance: Jerusalem, China and Tibet"- Ethical Culture Society of Essex County, NJ; "Color Grid Re-Visions II" - Compelling Images Fine Art Gallery, South Orange, NJ.

Florence has completed site-specific commissions for residential interiors and corporate and public spaces, including PSE&G, Schering Plough, Ciba-Geigy, Chubb Insurance, Whitehouse Station, NJ, Equity Office Properties, Stamford, CT, and the Municipality of Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Florence Weisz's art is in numerous private and public collections including The New Jersey State Museum, Citibank, IBM, Blue Cross and University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, Marriott Hotel, Princeton, NJ, California Institute of the Arts and The Port of Authority of NY and NJ. She is a recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award.

Artist Statement

"My primary medium is paper collage. I have explored many subjects over the years creating my own distinctive materials and searching for innovative ways to express each visual theme."