On
Saturday,
March 17, 2012, over 25 members and guests attended
Rona's presentation, marveling at the diversity of her artwork. This prize-winning artist involved Senior Artists
Alliance members in a discussion of her artistic creations. It was an
interesting and enlightening afternoon!
Photographer, painter, creative silversmith, digital artist. Rona Eisner is an artist who fits into many categories, but cannot be categorized. Her paintings and photography have been in juried shows in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and her work is in many private and corporate collections.
Photographer, painter, creative silversmith, digital artist. Rona Eisner is an artist who fits into many categories, but cannot be categorized. Her paintings and photography have been in juried shows in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and her work is in many private and corporate collections.
Her bio...
Rona Eisner
Rona Eisner
Painter,
Photographer and Creative Silversmith
7612 Rossdhu
Ct., Chevy Chase, MD 20815
phone: (301)
652-3821 fax: (301) 652-3822
email: reisner11@starpower.net
Artist’s
Short Bio March 2012
Following
a traditional liberal arts education (Smith College 1960), I earned a doctorate
in psychology in 1967. My education did not include any art training. For 35
years, as a clinical psychologist, I did long-term intensive psychotherapy. I
retired from that career in 2001 in order to move into a new phase of life and
pursue my passion for making art of many forms, taking classes in various
media, e.g. painting, photography, collage, and silverworking. I now devote
full time to artistic endeavors.
In the last two years, I have been spending much of my
creative energy in the Silverworks Studio at Glen Echo, studying with Blair
Anderson and working in the open studio. I find that working in metal, whether
silver or copper, allows me freedom of expression, calls on problem solving
skills, and is just plain fun! My piece “A River Runs Through It” won a Purple
Hammer Award for excellence in design at the July, 2011 show “The Fifth
Element” at the Popcorn Gallery at Glen Echo. I was one of 5 silver artists
chosen to be included in the Faculty Art Show at the Popcorn Gallery for March,
2012. I have continued to take workshops in both painting and photography and
to produce work in these media as well.
My
work in both photography and painting has been in many juried shows in the
Washington, DC, metropolitan area. In
the last three years, my photography has been commissioned by Soho Myriad for
display in hotels in Atlanta, Georgia; I had a soloInvitational Show at the
Levine School of Music, January 2009 – June 2009;
Equinox Restaurant,
Washington, DC, has several photographs on display, Dec. 2008-; my series of
digital collages “Riffs on the Theme of Creation” was in the Smith College
Class of 1960 Alumnae House Gallery Show, May 2010 (2 of the images were
purchased for the presidential mansion) and at Glenview Gallery, June 2010; and
I was Artist of the Month, Georgetown University Hospital Art Gallery, May 2010.
Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring, Maryland selected myself, Sheila Meyer and
Christy Stebbins to show our photographs at the museum for April and May 2011
in a show called “Fragile Moments, Fragile Times”. My photographs and paintings
are in a number of private and corporate collections.
Several of my photographs have won prizes:
Brookside Gardens (Wheaton, MD) Annual Art & Photography Show FIRST PRIZE
in PHOTOGRAPHY for photograph “Pink Dogwood” (Oct, 2000); Capitol Arts Network,
National Juried Show “I’m Ready For My Close-up”, Bethesda, MD, FIRST PLACE PRIZE for Photograph “Magic
Puff#4” (July, 2005); North American Nature Photography Association,
Expressions 2008, “Magic Puff #4
Included as one of the top 100 images juried from the Showcase Competition;
Expressions Competition 2009, 2 of my images were in the top 20 per cent and
one was published in the NANPA Currents Magazine in 2011.
My work can be seen on the art file of the
Washington Project for the Arts: http://artfile.wpadc.org.
