John Eisler
Creating artwork that one Canadian art editor calls “Jackson Pollock in three dimensions,” John Eisler employs wire sculptures, stained canvasses, and mylar flooring for some of his most striking exhibitions. He earned his B.F.A. in Painting from the Alberta College of Art + Design (1997). A decade later he received his M.F.A. from the University of Guelph (2008), and later undertook a month-long residency at the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists in Iceland (SIM) in 2015.
Eisler’s work attempts to express how modern civilisation is saturated with visual complexity, technology, and popular culture. Eisler exhibitions such as Fountain employ spray painting and stencilling onto folded canvasses that conceal as much as they reveal. Other exhibitions present layers of folded, printed, and woven paper, or chains and corrugated plastic. The results are explosively colourful or starkly monochromatic, but always intense.
Eisler has mounted almost a dozen solo exhibitions including tear here and Trafficking in Calgary, Guelph, and Toronto. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the TD Bank Group, and numerous private citizens have collected his works. Eisler won a grant from the Toronto Arts Council and three production grants from the Canada Council. He lives in Toronto.
Eisler’s work attempts to express how modern civilisation is saturated with visual complexity, technology, and popular culture. Eisler exhibitions such as Fountain employ spray painting and stencilling onto folded canvasses that conceal as much as they reveal. Other exhibitions present layers of folded, printed, and woven paper, or chains and corrugated plastic. The results are explosively colourful or starkly monochromatic, but always intense.
Eisler has mounted almost a dozen solo exhibitions including tear here and Trafficking in Calgary, Guelph, and Toronto. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, the TD Bank Group, and numerous private citizens have collected his works. Eisler won a grant from the Toronto Arts Council and three production grants from the Canada Council. He lives in Toronto.