Before the Beginning and After the End
Bill Weiss

December 6 2025 - January 18 , 2026

When I read “The Four Quartets” by T.S. Elliot I was “given” a mental image of the natural world in a state of Before and After, before the creation of the natural world and after the dissolution of the natural world.

 The images in these paintings and drawings are the visualizations of this concept as suggested by the poem. These works look like a type of all over field or undifferentiated visual plasma, Being and Non-Being as a universal image.

 The drawings and paintings in this exhibit were done between 1991 and 2025, and made in my NYC and Los Osos studios.

Bill Weiss, 2025.

BIO:

Bill Weiss is a self-taught painter living and working in Los Osos located in California's Central Coast.

Before moving to California, Bill worked for 33 years in New York City's Chinatown. He exhibited regularly at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea from 2001 until the gallery's closure in 2023. Throughout his three-decade career, he has had 12 solo exhibitions and participated in nearly two dozen group shows in cities such as New York, Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Chicago, and even Japan.

Many of his works are included in the collections of private collectors as well as public museums.