Jared Weiss is an artist and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His figurative works explore ideas of psychological narrative, ambiguity, and the complex relationship between one’s internal world and environment. Weiss’s applications of exaggerated color in deliberately gestural, layered brush strokes mimic the imperfections of sensory recall as memories mingle with layered fragments of the human psyche. Emerging from these layers are dream-like depictions of figures engaged in their own abstracted worlds, blurring with their surroundings in scenes somehow strangely familiar. Weiss received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at the Santa Fe Community College where he heads the Drawing and Painting Program.