Born in 1962 in Newark, NJ, Judith Eisler obtained a BFA from Cornell University and then moved to New York City. Eisler was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and in 2004 had one of her paintings, Smoker (Cruel Story of Youth), on the cover of the magazine Artforum. Much of Eisler’s technical painting skill came from an apprenticeship she had with a Bulgarian Art restorer, but without a clear direction or painting style Eisler flipped between abstract minimalism and painting found-image photographs. It was when she watched the George Lucas Film, ThX118, and became mesmerized by a frame of a rat with orange and purple light behind it that she took a photo of the rat and made a large painting of it. Today Eisler lives and works out of Vienna, Austria and Connecticut and continues watching films and painting single frames that do not seek to capture a defining moment in the film, but instead happen to capture her attention.
(SOURCE: "Judith Eisler Elusive Elements of Light and Motion." FLATT. FLATT Magazine, n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2016. )
