Jeri Eisenberg is a photo-based artist working with non-traditional and alternative techniques, living in upstate New York.  She represses photography's traditional emphasis on the representational qualities of the medium, and emphasizes instead its expressive nature. She employs a strong sense of materiality and seductive surfaces in her work to evoke visceral connections. Her work steadfastly serves as an affirmation beauty in the everyday natural world, but is tinged with the bittersweet - a reminder of the temporal condition, and an elegy for life.

Ms. Eisenberg completed her MFA degree in 2005 at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and has exhibited widely over the past twenty years, including solo shows in New York, Houston, Boston, and San Francisco.  In 2023, Ms. Eisenberg was named exhibiting artist of the year by the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Ms. Eisenberg has been the recipient of Individual Artist Grants through the New York Council on the Arts, numerous Special Opportunity Stipends through the New York Foundation for the Arts, and artist residency awards, including the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Museu do Art Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, and the Albany Institute of History and Art, as well as private and corporate collections ranging from Tiffany’s to HSBC, Weill-Cornell Medical Center and Banana Republic. Her work is also included in “Encaustic: A Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax”.

Traces (after Anna)

“The work in this series is based on cyanotype photograms.  The images are the shadows left behind by the weeds, seeds, grasses and vines gathered on walks in the vicinity of my rural upstate New York home, and beyond.  The cyanotype photograms are scanned, sometimes inverted, and printed on long panels of Japanese Kozo paper.  They are infused with encaustic medium and often embellished with silver leaf, pigments, threads or beads.  The pieces echo the physical world’s eternal cycles and the ephemeral nature of all life.” - Jeri Eisenberg 

JERI EISENBERG'S PORTFOLIO