Noho M55 Gallery
Member Exhibition: FREEZE
January 7 - 25, 2025
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 from 6-8PM
For more information about this exhibition please visit
https://www.55mercerstreetgallery.com/events/freeze-members-exhibition/
548 West 28th Street, Suite 634, NY NY 10001
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11am - 6pm
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Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Through Artists Eyes
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Mamaroneck Artist’s Guild
Visions – Creative Possibilities
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About
Julia Eisen-Lester is an established artist whose work has been exhibited widely in group, solo and juried exhibitions, and can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
Eisen-Lester began her journey as an artist at the Art Students League in the fall of 1969. Here, she studied the Nicolaides method of drawing with Lester Rondell and anatomy with Robert Beverly Hale. She remained at the League as a full-time student for over four years. Shortly after, she attended the New School, where she took classes in clay sculpture and anthropology.
Her portfolio spans a variety of media including works rendered in graphite, pastel, gouache, watercolor, oil paint and collage. Eisen-Lester's most recent works are in oil, concentrating on urban life.
She has been painting and teaching out of her Yonkers studio for the last 30 years.
Armonk Outdoor Art Show 2022
Paintings reflect sense of place during the pandemic
By Jackie Lupo
March 11, 2022
From her house on a quiet street in the Ludlow Park section of Yonkers, artist Julia Eisen-Lester can enjoy the natural beauty of the Hudson River or stroll a few blocks to absorb a vibrant urban streetscape. During the past two years, home and neighborhood have also been creative refuges, as “sheltering in place” directives nudged her work in new directions…
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The Married Couple, 30” x 40”, Oil on Canvas, 2021
BETTER LIVING
An artist over city lines, a concerned teacher at home
Posted December 8, 2019
By RAPHAEL LASSAUZE
Yonkers, in the early afternoon, is the sound of landscapers and slowly driven cars.
A mere 20-minute walk from the city line, the area seems calm and distant. Yet in one of the large, well-kept houses that line the roads is an artist filled with the excitement and verve that comes from growing up in New York City. That artist is Julia Eisen-Lester.
“I grew up in Riverdale-Fieldston area,” Eisen-Lester said, walking up the stairwell surrounded by her paintings, which fill the walls. “I know a lot of people from there and I’m still quite close with them.”
Link to full article https://riverdalepress.com/stories/an-artist-over-lines-a-concerned-teacher-at-home,70690?