Edwin Carter Weitz is an American artist who seeks inspiration from the broader world around him, wherever things have been crafted with amazing precision. Anything that has been so purposefully and skillfully created that the results are jaw-dropping and beautiful. In particular, he pays the most careful attention to work that has risen above the rest, in any creative field, which has been deeply absorbed into the channels of industry conversation.
For the most part, his journey as a painter has moved along a straight-line progression from representational to abstraction. He has maintained a consistency of quality in all styles, producing and selling works in each. His eventual move toward abstraction was grounded in the desire to patiently form a solid artistic foundation through figurative and landscape work. He also began to gradually shift his work to series painting. Because he spent so much time in the advertising industry, his mind naturally thinks in terms of campaigns. Over the years his canvas size has grown, opening up a larger world of ideas, color, and form.
His paintings are sought after by private collectors and are maintained within the walls of many prominent corporations.
Biography
Edwin Carter Weitz (b. 1963) has been making pictures and traversing visual concepts for nearly four decades. He has created an oeuvre that contains a remarkably broad array of modes and motifs.
A graduate of Iowa State University with a graphic design degree, Weitz landed his first job as an associate designer at Bailey Lauerman—a small Nebraska advertising agency serving predominantly local accounts. At the age of 28, he was handed the reins of the creative department where he worked to transform the firm into a destination agency that has become well-known for its creative firepower and national client roster.
Midway through a successful career in advertising he began to explore the world of fine art and quickly transitioned into it. He has brought to the canvas his years of experience creating impactful and memorable imagery within the arena of commercial art, photography, and design for many of America’s most influential brands. Painting has now become his go-to source for visual expression. No other genre displays his pictorial and executional range more vividly and convincingly.
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am fascinated by the exploration of themes. But once I am into the painting process, the aim is to make it in a way that closes the distance between the viewer and the art.
