There's Always Room for Jell-o | Rob Weiss

Acrylic paint and colored pencil on wood panel
16x20
2026

Rob Weiss (b. 1974) is a Maplewood, NJ–based artist working primarily on wood, with a painting and drawing style that function as one. His surfaces are built up, reworked, and occasionally carved out with a Dremel. Each piece develops through this additive and subtractive process, retaining a visible sense of its own making. 

His works explore themes of class, political power, and control, and operate in a space between high and low visual culture. Rob’s classical drawing and painting methods melt into, absorb, and amplify the energy of comics books, punk rock, street art, and comedy.

His recent exhibition Lost and Found (and Lost Again) was on view for three months at the Herb and Milly Iris Gallery in South Orange, NJ. In March 2026, he was a part of OBEY AND RESIST, a Shepard Fairey art event at BEEPLE Studios in Charleston, SC, where he displayed three new pieces and won first place in the live drawing art battle.