I became a Guild Member of the Silvermine Art Center in 1974. For over 50 years, Silvermine has been an artistic home away from home for me. It has been a place to mingle among peers, exhibit alongside them in dynamic, curated group exhibitions, and participate in educational programming. I have grown alongside artists who joined many years ago, as I did, and have also enjoyed meeting the newcomers and watching their careers blossom. I have been honored to endow an annual award, called the Carole Eisner Sculpture Award, given to recipients for the past 25 years. I am grateful to Silvermine for supporting my work as a sculptor for so many years. I am confident that Silvermine will continue to be an important part of the Connecticut art community, and I look forward to future exhibitions and events at the Gallery.
Born in 1937 and raised in the Bronx, New York City, Carole Eisner began her creative journey in the world of fashion. After earning her BFA in painting from Syracuse University in 1958, she found early success in New York's fashion scene—earning Mademoiselle Magazine’s “Best Young Designer” award in 1961. But with the birth of her first child, Eisner shifted her focus toward visual arts, painting at home under makeshift studio conditions, and eventually transitioned into sculptural work.
Over the subsequent five decades, she built a distinguished career as both painter and sculptor. Her paintings, ranging through phases of abstraction and figuration, often informed her sculptural sensibilities. Meanwhile, her sculptures—hundreds of them—have graced parks, museums, sculpture gardens, and cityscapes across the Northeastern United States and beyond.
Eisner’s artistic home is split between New York City and her studio in Weston, Connecticut, where she has lived and worked for many years. Her repertoire includes both monumental outdoor sculptures—welded, rolled, and painted steel I-beams—and smaller, indoor welded steel assemblages, each reflecting her intuitive, collage-like creation process.
Eisner’s works have been exhibited extensively at institutions such as SOFA Chicago, Syracuse University, Prospect Park in NYC, Silvermine Arts Center, and internationally in Brussels and France. She has received attention in prestigious publications, including The New York Times, Vogue, New York Magazine, and Who’s Who in American Art.
To inquire about the availability of Carole Eisner's work, call Silvermine Gallery at 203-966-9700 x 220
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Silvermine Arts Center