Judith Eisler (1962, Newark, New Jersey) focuses her practice on painting and drawing. She received her BFA from Cornell University in 1984.  

"My work explores a reality filtered through screens and digital mediation. While the subjects remain recognizable, I focus on how technological abstraction affects image structure and perception. Painting becomes a tool for discovering unexpected narratives within photographic certainty.

Film offers us an accepted illusion—an alternate reality that shapes our perception and collective consciousness. By pausing the narrative and isolating a frame, the work interrogates visual perception: the instability of form, the absence of geometric certainty, the persistence of recognition despite dissolution.

Through thin, layered applications of paint, I articulate the abstractions that emerge from interrupted temporality. The paintings occupy an in-between space—formed through mediated distance, and through the tension between the generation of an image and its gradual disintegration—where meaning arises not from resolution, but from suspension."
– Judith Eisler

Eisler is a professor of painting and animation film at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She lives and works in Vienna and Warren, CT (USA). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; the Saatchi Collection, London, UK; the Hall Art Foundation, VT; MTV Network, and NASA (National Air & Space Association, USA). 

The most recent publication on her work is Judith Eisler, Center of the Frame, published by Lenz Press in 2024, and includes texts by Kirsty Bell, Christopher Bollen, Judith Eisler, and Wade Guyton.