Member Info
- Full Name
- Jessie Eisner-Kleyle
- Bio
Jessie Eisner-Kleyle is a Louisiana photographer living and working in the Midwest, whose work explores societal norms and gender roles as influenced by childhood literature - specifically fairy tales. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Visual Art Photography; a Bachelor of Art in Visual Art Photography from McNeese State University in 2003 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008. An award-winning and heavily exhibited artist, her work has been seen across the country in PhotoMidwest: The Seven State Exhibition, TPS15:The National Competition, the Monmouth Museumʼs Juried Photography Invitational Exhibition, Colors of Life in Washington D.C. and The Artist Project and the Womanmade Gallery in Chicago, to name a few. Jessie has taught in the art departments of the University of Wisconsin campuses in Madison and La Crosse and at Viterbo University. She is currently teaching photography for the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies and at the Center for Photography at Madison. Her new series, We Were Not Born Women, is on exhibit at the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Indiana until October 22.
- Artist's Statement
The philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” My work deals specifically with how we, as a culture, become women (and men) and what from our shared and unique histories - interpretations of literature, family artifacts, or the community of people in which we were raised - have had part in the shaping of those roles.
- City
- Blue Mounds
- Website
- http://www.jessieeisnerkleyle.com
- Website 2
- http://www.usedcameras.blogspot.com
Gallery
History
- Member for
- 31 weeks 1 day
