Jeri Eisenberg

Jeri Eisenberg is a photographer who works primarily with non-traditional and alternative photo-based techniques. Her large-scale, abstracted images of the treed landscape are captured with an oversized pinhole camera. Her best known and enduring series, A Sojourn in Seasons, consists of five chapters, four seasonal chapters in color and one in black and white. Pointing her lens on trees and foliage capturing them as they are not often depicted. Eisenberg represses or subverts traditional photography's emphasis on the representational qualities of the medium, and emphasizes instead the medium's expressive nature. The images are segmented and presented as translucent panels of diptychs, triptychs or quads, printed on Japanese Kozo paper and infused with encaustic. As the images fade in and out of recognizable form, they echo our ephemeral grasp on life. As Eisenberg has said, "It is comforting to know that despite the loss of definition, essential qualities endure."

Eisenberg completed her MFA degree in 2005 at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and has exhibited widely over the past 25 years, including solo shows in New York (Markel Fine Arts), Houston (Catherine Couturier Gallery), Boston (Lanoue Fine Art), and San Francisco (Cordon/Potts Gallery).

She 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 collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Center for Photography at Woodstock; Museu de Arte Moderna do Río de Janeiro; and the Albany Institute of History & Art. Her work has also been featured in private and corporate collections such as Tiffany’s, HSBC, Weill-Cornell Medical Center, and Banana Republic, and it can also be found in the book Encaustic: A Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax.