Larry Eisenstein, submitted artwork
Larry Eisenstein
Painting
New Brunswick, Canada
Larry Eisenstein was born in Toronto, Canada in 1954. He attended the Three Schools of Art and The Ontario College of Art. He is the recipient of multiple grants from each of The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council and New Brunswick Arts Board. In January of 2020 Larry and his wife, poet Paula Eisenstein, chose to pursue a more sustainable existence to support their art practices when the high cost of living in Toronto become a major obstacle to their creative ambitions. On the day Wuhan, China locked down for the Covid pandemic, they relocated to rural New Brunswick, where Larry built an art studio on the St. John River, ironically social distanced from distraction. Presently his drawings can be viewed at Peirogi Gallery’s Flat Files, in Manhattan.
Works
Larry Eisenstein, submitted artwork
Through exploiting the driving, accumulative qualities of drawing and investigating the process of mark-making, the language of drawing has become both a means of self-expression as well as a system of thinking for me. The practice and process of marking a surface has moved to the level of obsessive fixation, and compulsive necessity. I consider my non-figurative work biology as self-portraiture, where the artist, present as the only inhabitant in the drawing recodifies personal identity – interrogated, erased, even hybridized and reformed.
