Carol Eisenberg
Dangerous Beauty #1 (2020)
I create constructed digital images that blur the line between painting and photography. This duality of aesthetics is an essential component of my approach to art and life. I am drawn to the polarities of beauty and decay, the contrived and the natural, the excessive and the elegant.
All of my compositions begin with originally sourced imagery selected from photographs I shoot in my studio or on location in mid-coast Maine where I live half the year or my neighborhood and surroundings in Tel Aviv, Israel, where I reside the other half, as well as on my extensive travels here and abroad.
As an active participant in the feminist movement in the 1970s, the principles of inclusion, equality and justice underlie my work in the breadth of source material and the embrace of beauty in all its forms.
EDUCATION
MFA Media Studies/Photography, Maine Media College, Rockport, ME, 2016
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME, Fictive Landscapes
2020 Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, ME
2008 Long Island Maritime Museum, West Sayville, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME, Abstract Nature
2021 Washington Arts Association & Gallery, Washington, CT
2020 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, Corona
2019 LensCulture, Competition Gallery
2019 Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, ME, Golden Hour
2017 Maine Media Gallery, Rockport, ME, group exhibition
2016 Thesis Exhibition, Pascal Hall, Rockport, ME
2016 Maine Media College, CMCA, Rockport, ME
2015 Maine Media College, CMCA, Rockport, ME
INVITATIONAL BENEFITS
2021 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Art You Love
2021 Bakery Photo Collective, Portland ME, Photo A Go-Go, To Go
2020 Speedwell Projects, Portland, ME
2020 Finding Our Voices, Rockland ME
2020 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Art You Love
2019 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Art You Love
PUBLICATIONS
Books
People Looking at Art, 2019
Balagan, 2011
Press
The Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, Summer Issue, 2020, interview
Antidote, Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, April, 2020 to present
Dangerous Beauty, Décor Maine, August, 2020, profile
During Dark Times, Portland Press Herald, September 14, 2020, profile
Maine Art Sales Surge During Pandemic, Portland Press Herald, October 18, 2020
Maine Home and Design, July, 2015, editorial
Films
Starting Out In The Evening, 2007
August Rush, 2007
COLLECTIONS
Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY
Jacobi Hospital, Bronx, NY
Nassau County, NY Supreme Court, Mineola, NY
Private collections across the U.S. and Israel
