Introduction

GERRY JOE WEISE

GERRY JOE WEISE was born in 1959 in Sydney, Australia. He is a contemporary artist using the mediums of painting, installation, photography, performance, music and writing. He has lived in Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland and USA. His works belong to museums, private and public collections around the world.

CONTENTS

NEW-NATURE - PHOTOGRAPHY
http://gerryjoeweiseartphoto.blogspot.com/

NEW-REALITIES - DIGITAL ART COLLAGE
http://gerryjoeweisecollage.blogspot.com/

NIGHTSCAPES - DIGITAL ART COLLAGE
http://www.blognow.com.au/gerryjoeweisephoto/15274/NIGHTSCAPES.html

INSTALLATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
http://www.gerry-joe-weise.blogspot.com/

LAND ART INSTALLATIONS
http://www.gerryjoeweisephotofr.blogspot.com/

DRAWINGS & GRAPHIC ART
http://www.drawings-gerry-joe-weise.blogspot.com/

CONTEMPORARY POETRY
http://gerryjoeweisepoetry.blogspot.com/

BLUES ROCK MUSIC
http://www.gerryjoeweise.blogspot.com

CURRICULUM VITAE
http://gerryjoeweiseartwork.blogspot.com/2006/02/curriculum-vitae.html

PHOTOGRAPHY

GERRY
JOE
WEISE
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NEW-
NATURE
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PHOTO-
GRAPHY



NEW NATURE
http://www.gerryjoeweiseartphoto.blogspot.com/
Slideshow
http://www.fotothing.com/slideshow.php?id=gerryjoeweise
French Web Site
http://blog.ifrance.com/gerryjoeweise-artphoto

INTRODUCTION
GERRY JOE WEISE uses different mediums from: painting to sculpture, music to performance, and video to photography. The "NATURE-NATURE" 2005 series is based on his "NEW-NATURE" Photography taken from his "NEW-NATURE / NEW REALITIES" concept. These photographs were taken in Southern France, using old-school techniques. The same techniques were used for the "ECO-LOST" 2005 series, a bold statement on today's ecological problems. The "PSYCHO-NATURE" 2006 series was done using digital computer effects, to express his concerns with contemporary nature, the Earth, and sociological problems.

NEW-NATURE
NATURE versus GRAVITY
by Morton Fielding
The New-Nature series commenced with the introduction of dissonant forms of landscape photography in the South of France. The gradual deformations of images juxtaposed to form pictures no longer controlled by Earth's gravity, sometimes creating a central void, where the viewer is drawn into the image, sometimes turning the viewer upon his head. The exclusion of the human figure where all presence is evacuated, the viewer feels like an outsider in front of the image, as if nature has left mankind out; is a specific intention created by Gerry Joe Weise in what he calls the "New-Nature" series.
The most significant characteristic of Weise's photography, is its anti-gravitational aspect, its overwhelming scale in thickness of vegetation, where as silence and cacophony simultaneously carve through the dense air. An instant of bafflement ? Gerry Joe Weise doesn't encourage the viewer to comprehend contemporary nature photography at first glance. Nature versus gravity !

ART LINE MAGAZINE, England
by Andrew Nuti
Gerry Joe Weise's more external approach juxtaposed with Space and / or Movement, is enticed by Energy / Creation, and more fundamentally, is guiding his artistic research through guidelines set up in response to them, rather than following 'trendy' patterns.

NATURE-NATURE
by Gerry Joe Weise
New Earth, Earth-Works, Unreal Landscapes, New Realities, Psycho-Ecology, Wood Tree, Boom Boom Nature, Sweet Leaf, New land, Rewritten Nature, Nude Leaves, Rock On, Monopoly Nature, New Forest, Listen To Wood, Blue Wild Angel, Concert Of Trees, Psycho Landscape, Distorted Nature, Stairway To Heaven, Green Tree, Wild Thing, Mother-Organize-Nature, Voodoo Forest, Band Of Trees, Nature One, Wanted Green, Out To The Woods, Hour Growth, Nature Nature Nature.

DIGITAL ART COLLAGE

NEW
EXPERIMENTAL
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DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHIC
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ART
COLLAGE


COLLAGE
http://gerryjoeweisecollage.blogspot.com/
BUSHFIRE Slideshow
http://www.fotothing.com/slideshow.php?id=weisebushfire
SEASIDE Slideshow
http://www.fotothing.com/slideshow.php?id=weiseoceanside
ALL DIGITAL PHOTO
http://www.blognow.com.au/gerryjoeweisephoto
French Web Site
http://blog.ifrance.com/gerryjoeweise-collage

NEW-REALITIES

INTRODUCTION
These "Experimental Digital Photographic Art Collages" are a combination of old-school collage techniques juxtaposed with new-school digital photographic montage computer soft-ware manipulations. A great variety of images can be obtained that exceeds largely the quantity and differences obtained by ancient paste & paint collage skills; but they do not replace older styles - they just coincide with. These Digital Art Collages are based on the "New-Realities" theory series.

DIGITAL COLLAGES
The Artist's Statement
26 April 2006 by Gerry Joe Weise
The Digital Collages from the "New-Realities" use a variety of techniques from the "old-school" montage superimposing to "new-school" computer manipulation of the final image. Landscapes can be looked at from a 2 dimensional to a 3 dimensional view. The "New-Realities" theme is trying to obtain a 4th dimensional aspect, the "inner-soul" of the landscape. Some of the works can be looked at by tipping the image around to its side or by standing-it-up upside down. Other works can be looked at from a topographical view, as if the viewer was airborne. I have always respected collage artwork from Modern Art to Contemporary Art, and while creating these works has been a natural on-going process of great passion and desire, it seems I can finally express myself about nature as a whole. One must note that animals and humans do not appear within these landscapes : earth, water, air and vegetation, overwhelm any chance of an animal form making an appearance, and humans seem to be the intruders. Air has a way of being represented in different densities, different colors : yes air has color and form. Minerals give earth different flavors and odors, water creates division and distance, while vegetation creates time and space. It is impossible to escape nature walled up in a city, and do we have to drown out earthly sounds with our mechanics ? Utopia is for amateurs, the sublime is for the unfit, and to hell with political realism on this planet !

NIGHTSCAPES

NIGHTSCAPES web site
http://www.blognow.com.au/gerryjoeweisephoto/15274/NIGHTSCAPES.html

A PANORAMA OF NIGHTLY DELIGHTS
by Jan Rubin
A native of Sydney, Gerry Joe Weise moved to Europe in1980, at the age of 20. In the late 80s, through his friendship with Jean-Marie Le Sidaner (international French poet), he was invited to poet meetings, happenings, performances, and the Rimbaud Poetry Festival in France.
His poetic "Nightscapes" taken from the "New-Nature / New-Realities", are a new private cosmos that opens up before us in a view, a panorama of nightly delights, under pressure from mortal life on a gravity-bound planet; but still offers an escape. Gerry Joe Weise is dedicated to close observation of nature and detail. He revisits themes such as mountains, plains, trees, water and skies. Weise scans photographic collages of landscape images and digitally manipulates them on his computer. These dark saturated black & white / color photos are riveting and breathtaking.

NIGHTSCAPES
The Artist's Statement
26 April 2006 by Gerry Joe Weise
From the dense and the dark passages found in nocturnal landscapes, one is in waiting. Waiting for the next consequence to happen. Hearing all silence, deafened by the vast spaces becoming claustrophobic, we shall not be the same again. Art has a very long history of evening, nightly, and after dusk works. Creating a mood and pleasure in representing obscurities, and awkward sentiments. These are precisely those moments I have learned to cherish from Prehistoric to Ancient to Modern to Contemporary Artwork. The "Nightscapes" theme I feel, has to have panoramic measurements, to create tension against claustrophobia : a sort of resting against restlessness. Therefore the contradiction is exposed, and we can savor the delicate balance between a panorama wide-open and a small stuffy space. Air has definitely color here ! The "Nightscapes" series use a combination of techniques I used for the "New-Nature" photographs and the "New-Realities" collages, and in doing so, hoping to create nocturnal moods unexploited in the color schemes I used beforehand.

NIGHTSCAPES french / francais
http://blog.ifrance.com/gerryjoeweise-nightscapes

INSTALLATION EXHIBITIONS

RETROSPECTIVE
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INSTALLATIONS
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EXHIBITIONS
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1980 1990 2000



EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
http://www.gerry-joe-weise.blogspot.com/
LAND ART
http://www.gerryjoeweisephotofr.blogspot.com/
Earth Pigments Slideshow
http://www.fotothing.com/slideshow.php?id=weisegerry
French Web Site
http://blog.ifrance.com/gerryjoeweise-expo

INTRODUCTION
Gerry Joe Weise has been using many different skills for his installations. His favorite has been colored pigments on natural earth, spread out in a large circle, usually 5 meters in radius. These Earth Installations have often been created at show-openings (vernisages). Other skills Gerry Joe Weise has used are acrylic and/or oil paint on bark, wood, metal, plastic, carpet, slate, stone, etc... as well as music, photography, video, sculpture, writing, and performance.

ART LINE MAGAZINE, England
by Andrew Nuti
Gerry Joe Weise is interested in the dimension of life that surpasses traditional urban life !

NEW REALITIES
by Gerry Joe Weise
"NEW REALITIES", for which these works have been based upon, are a departure from the common concerns of today. In that they are not concerned with, and go beyond the immediate surroundings of which we inhabit. The representation of symbolical forms are partially stated. In actuality, they are only impressions, as the human mind always compares to what is already familiar. These are not what they may seem to be! The symbolical ideas are assigned to act out our feelings from the subconscious, our inner selves, even though they transcend the heavens and are beyond a million light years away. Our world is not their world, yet theirs is ours. Their music and language are of a transcendental character; it could be said a priori knowledge and experience. The works therefore have no link to existing history, even though a reference in the titles may lead to imply. In this case it is likened to our Moon, which carries earthly titles upon the lunar surface, a satellite that has been in existence long before the memory of man.

DRAWINGS & GRAPHIC ART

DRAWING

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ILLUSTRATION
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ART

http://www.drawings-gerry-joe-weise.blogspot.com/

DRAWINGS is a collection of works from 1981 to 2001. Different styles and different techniques, concerning, new-realism, neo-expressionism, surf culture, cartoon, lowbrow art.

GERRY JOE WEISE has been experimenting in Contemporary art since the late 70s. Anything and everything concerning different cultures, mythology, nature, the Universe - the Cosmos; anything leading up to being an universal artist, and everything concerning different medium: canvas, paper, wood, earth, bark, metal, stone, photography, video, writing, etc..., has been Gerry Joe Weise's goal in achieving a comment on the Earth / Universe. In using Lowbrow Art, Weise is commenting on today's society, consumerism, our weakness, and our pitiful situation on this planet.

CONTEMPORARY POETRY

CONTEMPORARY
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EXPERIMENTAL
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POETRY


GERRY JOE WEISE POETRY
http://gerryjoeweisepoetry.blogspot.com/

INTRODUCTION
GERRY JOE WEISE, has been writing contemporary poetry, ever since the very early 1980s, just after leaving Australia and moving to Germany, where he lived in Munich and Frankfurt am Main. His poetry, verses, and thoughts, underlie his interests in the Universe and the Cosmos, mixed with everyday feelings... Earthly feelings. He delves in the senses, time & space, painting techniques, song-writing, musical themes, nature, ecology, abstract issues, among others. In Rheims and Chaerleville-Mezieres in France, he was part of the Poetic Artistic Movement, and the Rimbaud Poetry Festival in the Champagne-Ardennes, where he got caught up in many performances, musical experiments, and painting, with many French poets (and some Australian poets - Weise's guests) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The most famous among them being the internationally known Jean-Marie Le Sidaner (now deceased) - who Weise had completed many artistic projects with. As well as illustrations for the world famous Michel Butor. Always experimenting with words and verses, Gerry Joe Weise has always come back to contemporary poetry in some form or other.

In french :
With Jean-Marie LeSidaner (famous french critic, poet and writer)
http://blog.ifrance.com/gerryjoeweise-jeanmarielesidaner

ART LINE MAGAZINE, England
by Andrew Nuti
Gery Joe Weise has developed a whole body of theory, thanks to his musical practice, which evolves around the notion of rhythm. Here he has created a symbolic universe of his own.

MUSIC

BLUES MUSIC

While Gerry Joe Weise is known as an international visual artist, he is also known internationally as an Australian Blues guitarist, vocalist and composer. He has played with B.B.King, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Noel Redding, Eric Clapton, and has toured Australia, Europe and the USA. He has released several albums : 1994 "Live In Paris", 1996 "A Letter To Jimi", 1999 "Bushman Boogie", 2005 "Sydney-Paris Blues", 2009 "Blues Down Under" (Alien Records). Compilation : 2009 "Jaguar" ("Long Train Blues" by Gerry Joe Weise) with 7 other artists (Leaping Cat Records).

MUSIC LINKS

Gerry Joe Weise Web Site

Gerry Joe Weise MySpace Blues

Gerry Joe Weise MySpace Acoustic

Gerry Joe Weise Live In Europe Podcast

Gerry Joe Weise Studio Albums Podcast

Gerry Joe Weise MP3 Mp3.com

Gerry Joe Weise 2 MP3 Mp3.com

Gerry Joe Weise In The 1970s

Create a playlist at MixPod.com

EARTH SPIRIT EXPO

AUSTRALIAN
PAINTING
EXHIBITION
TOUR

"EARTH SPIRIT"

1) GROUP EXHIBITION
11 aboriginal artists from the Northern Territory are represented in the Earth Spirit Tour. Different age groups, from the very young to the very old. A wide range of styles, both traditional and new trends.
-England Banggala
-Thompson Yulidjirri
-Bob Namundja
-Bill Namundja
-Sonda Turner Nampijmpa
-Mary Mullins Jujabilla
-Eddie Ryan Bangadi
-Maurice Fejo Minnadook
-Jocelyn Garrwurra
-Celeste Robertson Nangala

2) DUO EXHIBITION
Created especially for the Earth Spirit Tour, aboriginal artist Eddie Ryan Bangadi from Central Arnhem Land and contemporary artist Gerry Joe Weise, had gotten together in March & April 2000 to paint 5 ground-breaking (avant-garde) canvases in Darwin N.T. Australia. A fusion between Indigenous Aboriginal and Lowbrow Contemporary Art.

3) SOLO EXHIBITION
Gerry Joe Weise, has stayed on two aboriginal communities: Manmoyi & Gunbalanya. Weise has worked with indigenous Kunwinjku band Nabarlek, and indigenous solo artist Ash Dargan. He has worked in different aboriginal galleries in Darwin, Melbourne & Sydney. While traveling across Australia, his reflections inspired by indigenous aboriginal culture, have led to a limited series executed especially for the Earth Spirit Exhibition Tour.

EARTH SPIRIT TOUR
Australian paintings, canvas - paper - bark.
Including music, photography, & installations.
4 EXHIBITIONS IN FRANCE :
2001 - CCI Chambre de Commerce, CASTRES.
2002 - Culture Centre MJC, LES SALVAGES.
2003 - Town Hall Chateau, BRASSAC.
2009 - Conservatoire of Music, LAON.

GERY JOE WEISE : CURRICULUM VITAE

GERRY JOE WEISE

Born in 1959 in Sydney, Australia.
Has lived in Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland and USA.
Collections in Museums, private and public collections.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1985 - La Grande Serre Gallery, Rouen, France.
1986 - Les Archers Culture Centre, Cambrai, Fr.
- Culture Centre, Gaillon, Fr.
1987 - Transmythic Earth installations:
...............Australian Embassy, Paris, Fr
...............CROUS Culture Centre, Rheims, Fr
...............Espace AGF, Rheims
...............Restaurant VO, Rheims
...............Cafe du Palais, Rheims.
1988 - Australian Embassy, Bonn, Germany.
- Australian Embassy, Brussels, Belgium.
- Earth Church installations:
...............Saint Denis Basilica, Paris
...............Saint Remi Basilica, Rheims
...............Church, Viels St Remy, Fr
...............Church, Neuvizy, Fr.
1989 - Espace 13 Culture Centre, Paris.
- Earth Music, Ocre d'Art Culture Centre, Chateauroux, Fr.
- Espace Tresor, Rheims.
1990 - The Sacred - Looking Up, Rimbaud Museum, Charleville-Mezieres, Fr.
90/91 - Le Chant des Roches exhibitons:
...............Les Loges, Rheims
...............Radio Station 93FM, Rheims
...............Espace AGF, Rheims, Fr.
1991 - Underworld Earth Works, BK Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany.
1993 - Earth Spiral, CAC, Brussels, Belgium.
94/95 - L'Utopie, Ancien College Culture Centre, Sezanne, Fr.
1997 - Earth Painting, CCA, Munich, Germany.
1998 - Galerie d'Art LB, Montreux, Switzerland.
2000 - Galerie Jiwini, Albi, Fr.
00/01 - Out Of Australia Gallery, Toulouse, Fr.
2002 - Earth Spirit, Culture Centre, Les Salvages, Fr.
2005 - Distorted Nature, Ancien Temple, Lacaze, Fr.
2006 - Nightscapes, Jam Factory, Adelaide, Australia.
2007 - Nature Wide Open, Junction Gallery, NYC, USA.

2008 - New Real Nature, Culture Centre, Buchholz IdN, Germany.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
82/84 - Schlosspavillon Gallery, Munich, Germany.
1987 - Grande Prix de France des Arts, Ancien College des Jesuits Museum, State Prize, Rheims.
87/88 - Rituel Commun / Common Ritual exhibitions:
...............Australian Embassy, Paris
...............La Lisiere Gallery, Rheims
...............Clin d'Oeil Gallery, Toulouse.
1988 - Grandeur Nature, SBAC Centre d'Arts Plastiques, Paris.
1989 - Installation THNO, Sculpture Park, Tinos Island, Greece.
1992 - Sun Earth, Co-Temporaire Culture Centre, Troyes, Fr.
93/98 - Ligne Roset Gallery, Rheims.
2000 - City Show Grounds, Caen, Fr.
- Art Passions, Town Gallery, Boissezon, Fr.
2001 - L'Esprit de la Terre, CCI Chambre de Commerce, Castres, Fr.
2002 - L'Esprit de la Terre, Culture Centre, Les Salvages, Fr.
2003 - L'Esprit de la Terre, Town Hall Chateau, Brassac, Fr.
2004 - Nature Nature, Lac du Merle, Fr.
2005 - New-Realities, Sculpture Park, Brassac.
06/07 - Ligne Roset Gallery, Rheims.
2007 - Where To Now ?, Artist's Space, NYC, USA.

2009 - L'Esprit de la Terre, Conservatoire, Laon, Fr.

GERRY JOE WEISE : BIBLIOGRAPHY

- 1986 Oct, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Mythorythmique", Centre Culturel Les Archers Cambrai, édition Les Archers Cambrai, Fr.
- 1987 Sept/Oct, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise", Centre Culturel du CROUS Reims, édition Antigone Reims, Fr.
- 1987 Dec, magazine, Artension N°1, "Gerry Joe Weise au CROUS" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris, Fr.
- 1988 Feb, magazine, Artension N°2, "Rituel Commun / Common Ritual - Gerry Joe Weise & Jon Cockburn" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris Fr.
- 1988 May, livre de poche, Flache N°1 "Michel Butor", édition Musée Bibliothèque Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières Fr.
- 1988 May, catalogue, "Grandeur Nature", Centre d'Arts Plastiques Clamart Paris, édition SBAC Paris Fr.
- 1988 Sept/Oct, magazine, Art Line, "Australian Artists in Paris" by Andrew Nuti, AGP Press London England.
- 1989 Feb/March, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Music", Centre Culturel Chateauroux, édition Ocre d'Art Chateauroux Fr.
- 1990 Jan/Feb, magazine, Artension N°13, "Gerry Joe Weise" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris Fr.
- 1990 Feb/April, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - The Sacred", Galerie Contemporaine Musée Rimbaud Charleville-Mézières, édition Musée Rimbaud Charleville-Mézières Fr.
- 1990 June/August, magazine, Marges N°2, "Aparté - Gerry Joe Weise - Sauver l'infini" by Alexandre Ban & Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, édition Ad Hominem Reims Fr.
- 1991 Jan, magazine, Artension N°20, "Gerry Joe Weise - Le Chant des Roches" by Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Paris Fr.
- 1991 April/June, magazine, Marges N°3, "Peintres Du Monde" by Gerry Joe Weise, édition Ad Hominem Reims Fr.
- 1991 Nov/Dec, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - l'Utopie", Espace AGF Reims, édition AGF Fr.
- 1993 April, magazine, CAC Mag, "Gerry Joe Weise - Earth Spiral", édition CAC, Brussels Belgium.
- 1997 Jan/Feb, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Earth Painting", CCA Munich, Germany.
- 1999 Nov/Dec, catalogue, "Aboriginal Art - the Ol' Fellas" par Gerry Joe Weise, Gallery Press Melboune Australia.
- 2006 Feb, magazine, "Nightscapes - Gerry Joe Weise", Jam Factory Adelaide, JF editions Adelaide Australia.
- 2007 Oct, catalogue, "Where To Now", Artists Space New York, Art Now editions NY USA.
- 2007 Oct/Nov, magazine, Art Zac N°72, "Where To Now Artists" by David Kellner, Art Zac editions NY USA.
- 2007 Nov, catalogue, "Gerry Joe Weise - Nature Wide", Junction Gallery NYC, Zart Press NY USA.
- 2007 Dec/Jan, magazine Art Zac N°73, "Gerry Joe Weise and Nature Art" by David Kellner and Catherine Defrisco, Art Zac NY USA.