Jeri eisenberg biography of barack

Jeri Eisenberg works primarily with non-traditional and alternative photo-based techniques. She represses or subverts traditional photography’s emphasis on the representational qualities of the medium, and emphasizes instead the medium’s expressive nature.

She employs a strong sense of materiality and seductive surfaces in her work, to evoke sense memories and visceral connections. Her work steadfastly serves as an affirmation of beauty in the everyday natural world, but is tinged with the bittersweet – a reminder of the temporal condition, and an elegy for life.

Artist Statement

These pieces are from my series A Sojourn in Seasons, which consists of five chapters of photo-based work: one black and white chapter and four seasonal chapters in color.

Each piece in the series depicts the common wooded landscape of my day-to-day life, captured mostly in rural upstate New York where I live.

The images are firmly grounded in the natural world, reflec