Caleb Weiss (b. 1992, Norwalk, CT) received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2014, and an MFA from The University of Delaware in 2020.
The work of New York-based painter Caleb Weiss emerges from an engagement with the visual residue of everyday life, fragments of the built environment, found images, and incidental marks, transforming these raw materials into a language of abstraction that feels both familiar and newly constructed. Each work is built upon a scaffolding of newspaper, serving as both a structural foundation and a conceptual entry point, an initial framework through which to engage with image, paint application, and the painting’s inherent geometry. Working in dialogue with the history of abstraction in New York, from the painterly surfaces of Abstract Expressionism to the material clarity of Post-Minimalism, Weiss approaches these traditions with a focus on process and the tension between formal structure and intuitive mark-making.
The compositions begin in a chaotic grid of images, gradually reaching a resolution where color, scale, and the rectangle become dominant forces. From a distance, the paintings could evoke the structured facades of modernist architecture; up close, however, hand-painted lines applied without tape reveal subtle variation and multiple layers. Fluid pigment, applied with brush and sponge, moves unevenly across the fragile newspaper surface, where rips, scratches, and seams reveal the painting’s physical construction as an object. The paintings invite a double reading: as composed images and as constructed, time-bound objects shaped by accumulation and alteration. In navigating this tension, Weiss asks the viewer to consider not only what is depicted, but how the act of looking itself can alter our experience of abstraction in daily life.
Caleb lives and works in Brooklyn.
Contact
calebkweiss@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/caleb__weiss/
Two Person / Solo Exhibitions
2025 Luke Malaney & Caleb Weiss, Marc Straus, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2017 Studio Show, 36 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Vicki Vermicelli and Friends, Vicki, Newburgh, NY
2019 Fredric Bernstein, Shelter Island, NY
2021 36 Paintings, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY
Ten Paintings Upstairs, Vsop Projects, Greenport, NY
2023 Dobrinka Salzman Gallery, New York, NY
Below a Grand!, Below Grand Gallery, New York, NY
2024 Holiday, Harper’s, New York, NY
Found Objet, New York, NY
Selected Press
2021 “Artist in Residence: Finding his Own Way,” Shelter Island Reporter, May 16, 2021