Edmund Wyss

Edmund Wyss is a Bay Area painter who works in both oils and gouache. His lifelong love of photography has always been conflated with of the tools of that medium.  Cameras and lenses represent a precise and mathematical gauge of the visual. Wyss's paintings mirror that precision by depicting mechanical diagrams and grid-based illustrations as realist forms; blueprints brought to life. His hyper-realist compositions express tension and internal constraint while reflecting the light of an expansive environment.

Wyss positions analog photography in the succession of image-making mediums from utilitarian use to fine art designation. Painting is tied to photography by this lineage.  A photorealist depiction of photographic tools is his way of expressing this irony.

Edmund is a graduate of Pratt Institute where he received a degree in graphic design and San Francisco Art Institute where he earned a graduate degree in painting. He employs skills learned from both disciplines in the process of creating his work. Wyss makes his own vector graphic drawings from observation and uses them as a template for his paintings, utilizing photographic references along the way.