Sophie Eisner (b. 1985, New York City, NY) is a visual artist working in sculpture, installation, drawing and performance. Using a combination of industrial materials (steel, concrete, wood, vinyl fabric) and traditional art media (plaster, paper, ink) Eisner explores relationships between our bodies, the built environment and emotion. She is particularly concerned with the intersection of intimacy and utility. By collapsing the familiar and the strange, her work explores poetic qualities of functional objects with playfulness and longing. Sophie Eisner has exhibited at Simone DeSousa Gallery, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Wasserman Projects, Franconia Sculpture Park, and the Wright Museum of African American History. She was the 2020 recipient of the Louise Bourgeois Award in Sculpture from Yaddo and holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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