Baker Artist Portfolios

Edward Weiss's career dates back to the early 1980s, East Village art, performance, theater, and music  scene. His work during that era falls into all of those categories. His serial, The Onyx Fool, (pictured above) ran at the scene's apex, a club called 8 BC, for a span of 3 months.  In 2016, materials -- including original art, photos, posters, and scripts -- from the Onyx Fool  became part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Archive of American Art in Washington, DC. 

His largest project in the past decade has been  The Forgotten History of Staten Island, an interdisciplinary, conceptual, public arts project funded by the New York State Council of the Arts. Its subject is the unreliability and mutability of history.

Since moving to Baltimore (where he had family roots) in 2012, Weiss has created one conceptual art piece The Campaign To Keep Baltimore Inexplicable, but focused mainly on visual art, and  returned to music. His recent art has followed two tracks, a celebration of the wonder of his adopted city -- perhaps most evident in his 2 street photo series Baltimore City People, and Delirious Baltimore -- and the exploration of personal history, specifically what remains, and what is lost, over the passage of time, as exemplifiedin his East Village 1980s Memory Series of paintings and drawings, and his recent songs.     

His work as a performer, and/or creator, has been shown at numerous venues including: The Pyramid Club, CBGBs, Luna Lounge, The Kitchen, BAM, La Mama, Theater For The New City (all in NYC) , and The Mark Taper Theater Complex in LA. His visual art including the Modern Venus series has been shown at numerous galleries in New York, and on the Art or Something Like it TV program, as well as Consolidated Works and Town Hall in Seattle, where they were featured in the 1st and 2nd Seattle Erotic Arts Festival. His illustrated book Peter Pigeon of Snug Harbor won the 2006 COAHSI Award for Literary Excellence sponsored by JP Morgan Chase and Poets & Writers, as an unpublished manuscript. It was published in 2009 by Rocky Hollow Press.   Activity in the greater Baltimore area, over the past few years, has included participating in exhibitions (works on paper) at Gallery CA and (street photography) at the Gateway Arts Center, as well as music gigs at Sidebar and Reverb.