Nina Weiss began studying art in New York at a very young age. During her high school years, she studied figure drawing in Manhattan at the Art Student’s League. She began attending the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia at the age of sixteen. Nina studied for a year in Rome, through the Junior Year Abroad program of the Tyler School of Art. Nina continued her art education at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, studying for her MFA in painting.
Nina Weiss’s love of landscape as subject matter developed upon moving from the East Coast to the Midwest in 1980. The vast horizons of the Midwestern cornfields became fascinating to her. She began exploring the countryside documenting the landscape with her photographs, and completing her large-scale drawings in her studio.
Screen-printing is the most painterly of the printing techniques. It allows the use of layer upon layer of color, exploiting line and mass in bold ways.
The inks can be printed as rich impastos or thin transparent glazes. The result is a print that is both vivid in hue and displays a rich tactile surface.