A conversation with Jerry Weiss, a figurative painter and author, raised in Miami, Florida, currently practicing in Connecticut, and teaching at the Art Students League of New York. Weiss has spent his life obsessed with the "sacred subjects" of the portrait and landscape. Weiss' influence of early 20th century illustrators has permeated his portraiture with a graphic quality that combined likeness & chromatic realism with bold outlines and compress dimensionality.