John Weiler

+ UAG Board Member + Member Since: July 1st, 2004 + Contact this member: + Page Last Updated: July 10th, 2007 + Similar Artists: Christa Dijstelbergen, Ginny Heller, Sarah MacWright, Colin Wilkinson

Artist Bio +

John Weiler, originally from New Jersey, has a varied and *ahem* somewhat checkered education and career. Here are the high points: John holds an associates degree in art from Columbia Greene Community College, (very) briefly attended SUNY Purchase, noted here more for its artistic influence than an educational résumé name-check, and worked as a writer and underground comic artist for various Capital District 'zines. He is, along with collaborator Christa Dijstelbergen, among the ten founding members of the Upstate Artists Guild, and the pair form the nucleus of crasis d:zyne.

Christa and John have worked together as crasis d:zyne since 2004. They have created installations, smaller assemblages, stage sets/production designs, and giant puppets, and have coordinated avant garde environments/events. Both artists thrive in an intuitive, improvisational collaborative process where creation develops in the free space between two minds. The results never fail to surprise or to surpass the potential product of either party working independently.

Christa and John chose to work under a common name, like a band, because of the flexibility such an arrangement allows. Just as a band can bring additional musicians into the studio or on the stage to expand the sonic palette but still retain its core identity without any sense of exclusion to the new collaborators, Christa and John can call on other artists and craftspeople to bring their skills into play for specific projects under the crasis rubric. Video artist Jason Cosco and caterer Gautom Rajput have been members of the extended crasis family since the beginning. More recent collaborators include glass-blower Scott Pernika and metal-worker Joanne Agopovich.

For more on crasis d:zyne, please see Christa Dijstelbergen's page.

• Best in Show
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, September 2007
• Black & White
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, July 2007
• People's Choice 2007
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, June 2007
• Art & Noise
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, January 2007
• See What I'm Saying
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, April 2006
• Open House and Small Works Show
  Upstate Artists Guild, Albany, New York, December 2005

• Art 4 Central
  Art 4 Central, July 2004, "not the moon" installation/event
• Danse Macabre
  Art 4 Central, October 2004, "Danse Macabre" installation/event
• Community Arts United Show
  The Mansion, Engleman Ter. March 2005, "Ascension" three story installlation
• 1st Anual Memebrs Show
  Art 4 Central, July 2005, « Borealis » plastics, water, sunlight
• The Institute Show
  the Albany Institute of History and Art, 9/15/05, "Stranger Within Silence" installation w/video
• UAG's First Night installation project.
  Palace Theatre Albany, 12/31/05, "Col. Gustav and Lady Annabella", giant puppets
• Dead of Winter
  the UAG Gallery, 2/06, "re-fract" light, plastics, miror
• Jack and the Beanstalk
  Confetti Stage, puppets of the Giant and his Wife
• Illuminations
  UAG Gallery, 3/06, "Parc Boreal" instalation with light and tree, "H2 Ohm" light, plastic, miror, water
• B.Sides art show
  Scarlet East Recording Studio, Albany, "The Narthex", room size installation with video
• Fashion Rock fashion show
  Lark Tavern, stage design with video
• Trashion
  Revolution Hall, October 2006, stage design
• e' ko-logic Fashion Show
  Marvin Neitzel Building, 12/7/06, stage design

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