Carol Eisenberg

Selections from:
Flowers at the verge + Flowers for the edge of the World + Undercurrents

Available for Sale

$3000

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.

— Carol Eisenberg

Learn more about Carol’s work on her Featured Artist page.

Carol Eisenberg has been a practicing photographer since the 1990s. She received her MFA in Media Studies and Photography from Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, ME. She specializes in creating digitally constructed images from originally sourced photographs she shoots in the studio and on location in Maine and Israel—where she resides—as well as on her extensive travels here and abroad. 

Eisenberg’s work has been featured in Décor Maine, Maine Art Journal, Portland Press Herald, and Lenscratch, among others. In 2020, her work was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME, and Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, ME. Her work is in both public and private collections nationwide. 

Images are original photo-based digital constructions printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Metallic or by dye sublimation onto aluminum. Editions by size, 22.5 x 30 inches to 45 x 60 inches; custom sizes available.

Event Horizon

Available for sale

$2500

Event Horizon is an exhibition that represents Cole Caswell’s multiple approaches to photography. The images on display include contemplative seascapes, studies of the sun and atmosphere, and detailed close-ups of collected spider webs and plants gathered from around the artist’s island studio. The processes employed to produce these pieces range from the 19th Century Wet Plate Collodion process, large-scale cyanotypes produced in nature, and even photograms created by detonating explosive material in close proximity to photographic paper. Through these varied processes and experiments, Caswell engages with remnants and patterns in our landscape and environment that reflect contemporary strategies of civilization and our ability to survive.

For the past decade Caswell has been living and working nomadically throughout the country, exploring man’s ability to subsist and create within our contemporary environment. Whether on the road or in his studio on Peaks Island, Maine, he continues his research and exploration into emergent and experimental photographic techniques, perspectives, and applications. The Event Horizon exhibition revels in these experimentations and questions how we perceive the modern landscape and our relationship to it. It is an accumulation of Cole Caswell’s observations on the shifting nature of reality.

Learn more about Cole’s processes on his Featured Artist Page.

Available for Sale

$40

RISE

Rise is a photographic investigation of the coastal landscape in Maine that will be lost to sea level rise. Made using the wet-plate collodion process the images depict places that will be underwater or rendered unrecognizable by the turn of the century. Reclaimed by the ocean.

And It All Went Boom

Silver Gelatin Prints, 10 x 8 inches, Unique, Exposed with explosives.

Survival Lines

Survival Lines is a visual exploration using the historic photographic process of wet-plate collodion to collect and explore the webs of spiders. The works are created when the web is directly collected onto a prepared glass plate from the landscape surrounding my studio in Maine. I see these works as a combination of scientific specimens, explorations of form, and metaphors related to the human world webs we need to survive. The underlying interconnectedness of our contemporary world drives my questions and investigations into these works.

The Source Grid

Date: 2017
Location: Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, California, New Mexico.
Materials: Eighty-one 8″x10″ tintypes.

The Source uses visual experimentation to expose visions of the sun hidden from the human eye. Pushing at the idea of revealing that which cannot be seen the works reflect on our contemporary understandings of place, space and time. Abstract and detailed depictions of the sun pick up subtle silhouettes of trees and power lines grounding the images. However details in the sun’s relationship to clouds and atmosphere combine with aberrations in the wet plate emulsion creating an abstracted view of the qualities experienced within a place. In a reflexive manner, the works also play with the idea of looking into the sun – and photographing the source of light.

Artist Books

DrifT

2019, Artist Book, Soft cover, Perfect bound, inkjet prints by artist, 20 pages, 10 x 8 inches. A hand bound artist book.

Drifter explores the visual reflections and aberration of light, water, and climate. These conditions of place are relied on for survival. Water is a pressing component of our contemporary lives, from toxic drinking water to floods and drought, water has become an icon of our changing climate. The images in Drifter are made on the banks of major American rivers. Using the wet plate collodion process to create glass negatives the works exploit the processes revealing the merging of water, light, and environment in an abstract and enigmatic manor.