John Eisler
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.